One advantage of the pre-Marlin external extractor is it's length of travel. On small cartridges, it will completely extract the empty case, and save you fumbling to pull a case with your fingers. The #3 Marlin Ballard does a good job extracting a small case with it's 2 piece extractor. But the standard Marlin Ballard extractor doesn't work well on a conversion to small RF, unless you also convert to the #3 extractor system.

Last edited by Vall; 01/17/16 11:16 AM.