What? No its not like saying anything at all about screw drivers. Ejectors are nothing like screw drivers. Ejectors are for ejecting stuff, screw drivers are for screws. Comparing the two is preposterous. Talk about tortured metaphors.
It's not a comparison. It's an analogy. Not the same thing at all. I obviously overestimated some of the "audience", but I'll concede I could have done better. In the interest of helping you understand my meaning, the analogy was about proper use, or misuse, of a tool..........ejectors being one tool, a screwdriver being the other. Maybe it would have helped you if I had used a fighter jet's ejection seat, instead of the screwdriver.
Stan,
Canting the gun isn't actually a requirement, but, depending on how you manipulate the opening cl on a Darne, it can speed how soon the emptys are out of the way.
The higher grade guns have a pin in the obturator disc, that gives the spent round a jab to the outside of the gun, and off the ejector hook. In the more common lower grade Rs, the emptys get a shove from the hook itself, that effect being amplified when the breech is slid back with gusto. Giving the opening lever a bit more umph on a high grade does the same thing.
I'll buy you have never broke one, Stan, but, there is NO shortage of posts, and pictures, of guys right on this board who have. Spanish ones, Turkish ones, Italian ones, Scottish ones, English ones, Japanese ones, Americna ones, whatever.
While the ejector hook on a Darne could break, I haven't seen one, and have never seen a post about that either. Here, or anywhere else.
I'm right there with George Hoenig, when it comes to single triggers, and conventional ejectors.
They can't cause problems when they aren't there. Which, is why he will build you a superb Hoenig rotary, but, it won't have a single trigger or ejectors.
I hunt with conventional doubles, also, Stan, and prefer them with(out?) ejectors. In my case, an ejector just isn't truly needed for the shooting/hunting I get to do. My self imposed limit on birds is a brace, and speeding that end up is certainly not a requirement.
I hope you enjoy your time afield, with whatever gun tickles your fancy.
Best,
Ted
Thanks for the better explanation, Ted. I appreciate it. (I interjected the red addition to your post. I think I understood your meaning?)
There certainly are complaints of ejectors failing, no problem finding them to read. And, I don't deny they fail. But, I'm still of the opinion that we hear the complaints in a far, far greater proportion than we do the accounts of those ejectors that have just kept on working perfectly for a lifetime. It just doesn't make sense that my experience is that far out of line with the world's in general. If that were the case, I'd be planning to hit the Blackjack tables hard while I'm at the Vegas gun show this week ..............because I'd be leading a charmed life. But, I won't be. I gamble enough every spring when I plant.
SRH
