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Originally Posted by hobby-gunsmith
The extractor has to snap over a chambered round virtually over most firearms with the exception of some machine guns and very few pistols which most gunsmiths would not encounter them. Now, I can go into further detail,...
Nick
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You may differ with me all you want, but the extractor does not snap over every round. It is designed to snap over a case rim if a round is already chambered, but that should be rare.
CB3 has it right...
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Originally Posted by CB3
I always understood that the rim of the case coming up from the mag slips in behind the extractor, and that helps guide it, although minimally, toward the chamber. Extractors do not snap over the rim of every chambered cartridge.
I am not a gunsmith.
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...I'm not a gunsmith either, but this is how it works. There really is no argument about this. You can easily see it in action if you slowly close the slide on a loaded magazine, you can see the cartridge rim slide up under the extractor. This action is why most recommend not closing a gun like a 1911 on an already chambered round.