Ok...a lil' help puh-leeze!

[Glock 'em down]

I was sitting and looking thru my CDNN catalog again today. Just like I have been every single day for the last three or four weeks now. Staring at the coach gun I am fixin' to order.

Well...I started reading the "fine print" on this coach gun along with the "fine print" on a few other scatterguns thruout the catalog and I noticed something. The ad for the Remington I'm getting says it has "extractors" while some of the other SxS and a couple of the other O/U shotguns had "auto ejectors."

Now...I know what an "auto ejector" is. It's when you break it open, it sends one or both hulls, depending on if you shot one or both barrels, soaring into the air like a homesick angel. But...exactly what is an "extractor" on a SxS scattergun?

 

[Shadowrider]

Don't hold me to this, but I think that extractors just pull them out a little instead of sending them flying. It's been many a year since I shot that ole SxS my friend's dad had.

 

[cjjtulsa]

Yes - extractors lift the empty shells up so you can physically pull them out; ejectors do just that - launch them out of the chambers.

 

[Glock 'em down]

So when I break open my Remington, I gotta pull the empty hulls out with my hand instead of them jumping out all by themselves?

 

[bulbboy]

Sounds like it

PM the link to what you are ordering - might talk myself into one!

 

[aeropb]

cjjt is correct. The extractors just pull the shells out sorta like a revolver extractor does. They come out just enough. Auto ejectors launch them out like an auto loader would.

 

[bratch]

I think alot of the coach guns have extractors to keep them legal for cowboy action shooting.

 

[Glock 'em down]

I think alot of the coach guns have extractors to keep them legal for cowboy action shooting.

Oh! You mean...you can't use auto ejectors in cowboy shootin'?

 

[Old Fart]

The big benefit of extrators to ejectors is lost on most people who don't reload thier shotgun shells. At some skeet and trap ranges it's frowned on to pick up shells. So the extractor allows you to pull them and put them in your pocket. Plus no searching in the tall grass for them either if you're out in the field hunting birdies.

 

[bratch]

Oh! You mean...you can't use auto ejectors in cowboy shootin'?

Just checked no auto ejectors on SXS in SASS shoots.