Ejectors VS Extractors

[C.O.B.]

Whats your preferance? For years I favored the ejectors, why I have no real idea. It is easier to reload with gloves on with the ejectors. I never let the empties fly out and onto the ground. No point in advertising. Now that I have acquired a few guns with extractors I find no real hinderance in them. My position at this stage of the game is ejectors/extractors who cares just as long as it's a Parker

[Wild Skies]

I favor ejectors. Any shotgun that I would consider a "Best Gun" has to have ejectors---but an extractor gun ain't bad.

[GH-16]

"My position at this stage of the game is ejectors/extractors who cares just as long as it's a Parker"

Well said Richard!!

When I'm hunting I prefer extractors, simply for the ease of taking care of the empties. I was raised with the leave no trace when your done ethics and extractors help with this goal in mind.

I do catch the empties with ejectors as well, but there is always that once or twice that they go flying. Murphys law must kick-in, because it seems like it only happens in the thickest cover and I spend the next half hour looking for one used shell. The dogs don't like it much either when I'm looking at the ground mumbeling to myself and kicking weeds rather than letting them hunt.

[Ed Blake]

Extractors and double triggers. Keep it simple.

[TARNATION !!!]

Hopefully, I'll find out on Friday. GHE heading for roosters. So far, I have only had extractors. My first thought on the question is:

Potential problems increase in direct proportion to the number of parts.

Extractor - two parts (if you include the screw)

Ejectors - lost count after 15, some are one-offs but others count twice. Somebody else will know the total but it's way more than 2.

That said, I haven't any experience with them and haven't heard much on the discussion forum about ejector problems. Seems Mr. Parker ran a quality enterprise.

[King Brown]

I don't use my Elsie Specialty as often as I should because of its powerful ejectors.

[C.O.B.]

I have been shooting ejector Parkers for almost ten years and the only problem I have had was a broken rod on the "Hollywood" gun which I shoot for sporting clays every Sunday when it's not hunting season. Maybe I'll take her out for Pheasants this fall.

I always cup my hand over the barrels when I open the gun to catch the empties.

My last two Parkers one ejector, one extractor both 16's, both perfect

[Autumn Daze]

I own and shoot both. But I prefer extractors.

[Richard Flanders]

I mostly have extractor guns and like them for hunting. I dislike leaving hulls laying around and often pick up those that I find. I get used to catching empties from the ejector guns also. For simplicity and reliability, I'll take extractors. The only thing on a Parker that I have never dismantled is the ejector assembly.

[C.O.B.]

Chalk up another one on the extractor side of the ledger