| 400NitroExpress |
| (.400 member) |
| 31/12/05 07:14 PM |
Re: EXTRACTOR Rifles for Dangerous Game
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Marrakai:
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Tipping the gun up far enough to ensure the empties fall free immediately, requires a rotation to the side as well as tipping the barrels skyward. The whole thing then has to be brought back down and rotated back into line.
??? Not picking on you, Marrakai, as several posters seem to be describing variations on the same theme....rotating, flipping, jerking, aiming at high incomers....Geez, guys, it isn't necessary to gyrate like an organ grinder monkey! If all of that is required to get the cases to fall out, the gun is in serious need of repair.
Once the gun is open, primary extraction has taken place, and the extractors have lifted the empty cases out 3/8". Since the flanged nitros have a fair bit of body taper, the empty cases are lying loose in the chambers. Flanged nitro cases are heavy and the case head is the heaviest part, so it takes very little elevation past the horizontal for gravity to do it's work.
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With an ejector gun, however, the barrels can remain pointed at the quarry during the whole operation. Down; open; reload; up; fire.
Yeah, that's pretty much the way I do it with an ejector, or an extractor. I don't vary it with either gun. I pay no attention to the empties, and make no conscious, extra motion to clear the chambers with either gun. For me, as I open the gun, the barrels just naturally end up very slightly muzzle-high. The chambers are clear as soon as the gun is fully open, ejectors or extractors.
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