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It has no effect on what I buy but I prefer ejectors. When I learned to shoot skeet (that is where I started shooting) I soon fiugred out it was good etiquette to catch your shells as they are ejected. Some guy showed me how to do it easily and now it is automatic for me. When I go to the skeet field I sometimes shoot my O/U and I try to let them fly for fun (it is a commercial range and the kids who pull for you also rake the place when it is slow so it makes more work for them which is probably a good thing). I usually forget and catch them.

As you open the gun turn it on its right side (if you are a righty) catching the stock between your right arm just above the elbow and your waist and let them pop into your right hand. Simple learned motion that works. As you rotate the gun back 90 degrees with your left hand the shells are put in your pouch with the right. Grab two more, load and close the gun if you are on 1,2,6 or 7 station.

I've shot ejector guns for so long now that passing my hand over the action and catching the hulls as the gun breaks open is all part of the routine. I'm not conscious of it at all, no more so than mashing the clutch on a manual transmission vehicle. So it makes no difference to me if a gun does or doesn't have them. In fact, I haven't shot the only gun I own without them (Fox Sterly) in so long, I wonder if I'll remember to manually remove the spent hulls. As far as shooting flurries or whatever, I can't remember ever failing to get a third shot off because of the ejector/non-ejector issue.

Ejectors are nice when they work. But with age, it is an additional part that will require repair, and may not work properly in the event of a new set of tubes. Nice clean chambers with extractors will lead you to all of your spent cartridges as is a necessity to tread lightly and leave only footprints as a sign of your passing by.

Kind Regards,

Raimey
rse

I do like ejectors, but in my LC 12g, they cause the gun to be difficult to break and actually spring back the barrels to the point the shells can't be put in without holding the gun open against the springs. Maybe it's out of time.

On a hunting gun, a well designed, properly working ejector system is an advantage to me during times that a quick reload is needed. I cannot believe that ejectors would be a detriment to removing shells from the chambers without letting them hit the ground. I have never had a problem catching shells from ejectors in my hands. In fact, I find that they make it easier to ensure getting them out without dropping them.

However, I would not hold it against a particularly attrative vintage gun if it didn't have them.

I have ejectors on only one gun, a 12 gauge L.C. Specialty---and I'd rather not. I reload and don't like scratching around looking for hulls.

I also don't want to be catching hulls with my reloading hand. Ejectors are no advantage to me. Certainly not in the blind.

If you reload you will love extractors, if you are shooting doves in SA you'll love ejectors. Buy them both you won't go wrong!

Jim

Double triggers and extractors mean more reliability and less time talking to gunsmiths.

Also what jjwag69 said.

Best,

Mike

The argument of ejectors = littering is so lame I really get sick of hearing it, the same person who just lets em fly with ejectors will just toss them on the ground after pulling them out with extractors. Anyone who has shot either a ejector O/U or SxS for any time at all will have the empties in there hand as the gun breaks. As for shooting flurries I do let them fly as I am reaching for 2 more as the gun is breaking but then pick them up after the round..

Dblfever,

I am sorry your offended, but it is unjustified. If you reread the previous posts no one said ejectors = littering. I, as well as other posters, said leaving hulls on the ground in the field is littering. I said if shells fall on the ground you should pick them up. Others explained clearly that they catch their empties before they fall to the ground. Pumps and semis ALL have ejectors and while this forum takes pride in double guns I have not heard a call for a ban of those guns. It could be argued that ejectors were designed to create litter, but as explained, discipline and courtesy applied, one picks up dropped empties or catches them before they fall preventing litter. In no way is it implied that the user of any gun with ejectors is a litterbug, that error would be lame.

The principle virtue of ejectors is that you can get two on one gun. Must buy two guns to get extractors although ejectors initially act as extractors--should be called exjectors.

jack