The Parker automatic ejector is a needlessly complicated system with way too many parts that need to be in precise adjustment to funcion properly. (No wonder it added over 25% to the price of a new gun!). If you want to see a really ingenious and simple, also utterly reliable auto ejector design, examine the drawings of the Holland & Holland and Boss ejector systems. The H&H system is rediculously simple with very few moving parts, and the Boss system is a masterpiece of gun engineering, inclluding a mid-position detent that elevates unfired cartridges way out of the gun for easy removal if desired. The H&H system is to the Parker system what Elmer Miller's single trigger design is to the first generation Parker single trigger design. Owning and trying to shoot a Parker with a bad ejector train (or a malfunctioning single trigger) is like owning and trying to drive a bad-running vintage Jaguar - the worst is yet to come.
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