Ed has shot at my pigeon club where gentlemen deposit their empties, two at a time, into the proper receptacle, by hand.
True story. I was using my GH then. The "hitting the barrel" story was from DogWood, and while I was still owning and shooting my DHE Trap (which Destry relieved me of).
An addendum to disabling ejectors and using them as extractors, my ca.1896 BH had retro-ejectors installed for some dumb reason in the 1950s, which never worked properly (per letter provenance), and were disabled when I bought the gun in 1996. Ejectors operating as extractors have too little travel to present the spent shell properly (based on the BH instance). Whether this is endemic to all Parker ejectors, or just those installed by Lefever of NY on referral from Remington just before DelGrego got involved is problematical. It seemed to me at the time that the easy fix would have been to braze a slight extension on the end of the rod that pushes the shell when the gun opens. Destry bought the gun and I think he made the fix... EDM
