I am having a set of double rifle barrels made for my Krieghoff Teck O/U. I have a choice between straight extractors and a system which allows me to choose between extractors and ejectors. The changeover takes about two minutes with a screwdriver as the only tool. What are your thoughts on the matter?

I have another Teck in caliber .458 WM, with extra barrel sets in .375 H&H and 20 gauge 3" Magnum. All the barrel sets are fitted with ejectors and I have never had an issue with any of them.

What caliber will the new set of barrels be??

.500 NE

If it is a dangerous game set of barrels, which I am assuming .500 NE is, I'd want the choice of ejectors. Just in case.

I cannot imagine digging hulls out with my fingers, before I could reload, with a buff bearing down on me.

JMO, SRH

Neither could I, Stan. Have been watching some of the African hunting videos on U-tube (to cure "cabin fever" I guess) and if I were in that scenario you detailed re: ejectors- yes or no-- I'd hope my PH was, like Robert Wilson in the great Hemingway story- carrying a .505 Gibbs, a BA "stopper".

At age 77 (plus) I most likely won't get an African Safari in my lifetime-But if I had the available funds for such a hunting trip, you can bet your bottom dollar I'd pay the going price for a top quality express rifle, ejectors and SST- like Hemingway's Westley Richards-- RWTF

xausa,
This is a highly personal choice, with good justification for both sides. As for myself, I chose plain extractors. They don't depend on a complicated mechanism to operate, therefore are more dependable. Ejectors on the shot barrels of the same gun make a very loud "clack" when I break it open, making a silent reload impossible. Extractor on the combination barrels allowed taking 3 Reh( decidedly not dangerous game) at one sitting on more than one occasion by silently reloading.
"You pays your money and takes your choice"
Mike

+1 for extractors on SxS shotguns and my two SxS double rifles.

As Der Ami said, this is a personal choice and "you pays your money and takes your choice". I have my reasons.

For what it is worth, my two DG lever guns eject empties and reload multiple rounds; with the second shot almost as fast as a double and with many more rounds if needed.

Double rifles seem to be used mostly in larger calibers for pursuit of dangerous game. Stuff that may fight back.

I get the arguments for the simplicity and silence of extractors, but I would want ejectors on any DG rifle I owned. Can't imagine fumbling empties out of my .450-400 trying to reload while a buffalo or elephant is rapidly closing on me.

I have ejectors on all my double guns save one and have never had issues with them malfunctioning.

Agree with you 100%-- My double shotguns ( 4 in 12 bore, 1 a 20 bore) have ejectors- all have double triggers, except the M21 12 ga. my late father left me in 1980- that has a SST. Never have had any problems with the ejectors functioning on my guns, but it might be noted that I am religious about gun cleaning and proper storage and maintenance. RWTF

The ejectors on my two Parker Repro shotguns have not malfunctioned either - I just have to catch the empties as they exit the chambers and put them in my shooting vest to avoid littering the shooting area. I do not like to litter at the range or in the hunting field; nor do I like to pick up empties tossed out by ejectors.
My circa 1900 Parker extracts empties and I have become quite proficient at collecting them from the chambers and placing them in my shooting vest. As stated before, a matter of personal preference. BTW, This is one of the reasons that do not own auto shotguns or rifles- the are litter bugs.

I am astounded that supposedly experienced shooters think that ejectors mean empties flying over their shoulders. That isn't the way it works. You catch the empties with your trigger hand as you open the gun. If the shooter has more than a day of shooting experience, he knows this. I suspect that most "internet shooters" have not had that one day of shooting experience with an ejector double gun.

OK--but I enjoy watching them kick out when I open any of my ejector double guns, after firing. The one exception to your rule, which George Digweed seems to follow with his Perrazi O/U-- is driven birds with a matched pair of ejector doubles, or with a "stuffer" if you are shooting a single double ejector gun. You want the breech cleared immediately, to hasten the reloading process, I should think. RWTF

Aw but, but eightbore I love to see those two empties fly up in the air side by side & land within a foot of each other.

But seriously ejectors are my choice for quick reloads.
Well after the buff is dead is the time to look or care about the empties.

O.M