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How many of you prefer extractors in a old English best SXS? Or are ejectors much preferred?

Other than shooting the flurry at the UP SxS Classic, I have no use for ejectors and they have little application for upland shooting.

As a casual clay shooter,& occasional hunter,I dont think I need ejectors.My only hammerless Gun was an SLE, but I took out the ejector springs so its a SLNE now
They are cool bits of engineering though,& add some value to a Gun.
Easy enough to cup the breech to negate them, or do the catch em in mid air trick with an Ejector.
But I'm in no great hurry when I shoot, & usually like to use my hand crank Jones screw grip U/L hammer extractor Gun.
I guess in the old "Hot Corner" they might be handy to have.
Cheers
Franc

I've never had a non-ejector gun. If you only fire one barrel (very rare when I hunt!), do both shell just come up together?

Yup, both are raised at the same time. Pretty handy. I really have no use for ejectors, either in the field or at the gun club. Add unnecessary weight to the forend and are just another piece of the machine to go awry. And, my pet peeve--when removing unfired shells the ejector guns only raise the hull about 1/8" or so. Hardly enough to pry out with bare fingers. Difficult with cold, gloved hands.

I have a couple of ejector guns in case William and Kate invite over for a driven shoot but I have no use for them here on the East Coast.

Does anyone know how to disable ejectors in a Beretta 686? I seem to remember it's not too straight forward.

In Belgium most of our hunting is rough hunting occasionaly hunters are posted for driven shooting and even then ejectors are not a must. All my S X S guns are N.E. I have only 1 Belgian sidelock with ejectors. Extractors are in my opinion more practycal because you not need to take the ejected shells from the ground.
Marc.

Personally I don't like ejectors I usually have to go and pick up cartridges afterwards rather than me just pulling them out and putting them either in my pocket or in a neat pile on the ground at my feet!

I definitely prefer extractors, and disable the ejectors in my guns when possible.

I guess I'm still running against the wind, but after 50 years of shooting double guns, I still prefer ejectors.

Your question was concerning OLD ENGLISH guns with ejectors. I have no first-hand knowledge of this, not owning any old English ejector guns. However, given the penchant of owners of them to play the unreliability card, maybe they know something I don't, that is, that old English guns had unreliable ejector systems. I think more likely, though, is the idea that the opponents of ejectors just don't like them kicking their shells out on the ground, and haven't learned the childishly simple task of catching them as they do eject. Anyone who can use double triggers successfully certainly possesses the dexterity to catch two empties as they are ejected, right into your hand.

If, indeed, there was/is a reliability issue with ejectors in old English guns it was certainly solved by most current makers of good double guns. Ejector reliability just is not an issue with Perazzi, Beretta, Kreighoff,Kolar,and multitudes of other doubles built in the last 40 years or so.