Raimey,
Are you planning to install the EL in a drilling or double shotgun? This is the normal type of short EL, but in "extra" length (44 cm. as I recall) and were normally made for the right-hand barrel. Upon request, they would make one for the left barrel, so the chances are very good yours was made for the right side. In a drilling, it is preferable to install the EL in the right barrel to be able to take advantage of the set trigger. If you intend to install it in a double shotgun left barrel to take advantage of a more open choke in the right barrel, in addition to needing to install rifle sights or a scope, "sighting in" a righthand EL in the left barrel will be much more difficult. A similar situation exists installing a righthand EL in the top barrel of an O/U, and Walter Grass and I did that with my Heym that has 4-barrel sets. A couple things to watch for: the adjustment pads have two screws to lock them down after adjustment, and on one side to have enough adjustment we had to remove one of the locking screws. The other thing to watch for: when making adjustments after observing bullet impact, you need to know if the bullet struck the inside of the barrel and deflected to the opposite direction. A sign of this is if what seems to be a proper adjustment sends the bullet in the other direction. My experience with this was with the common 22 cm long EL, I'm not sure if a 44 CM long El is long enough that a bullet will exit the barrel before it hits the inside of the barrel. If the gun you intend use is one that has never had had an EL installed, you will need to carefully file a notch in the extractor to "locate" the EL if removed and reinstalled. Also, the rim recess will need to be "squared" to fit the headspace adjustment screw. You won't have the tool normally used to do this so you will have to use something like a " Dremel: tool. scraper, files, etc. to relieve the radius in the bottom inside corner of the recess.
Good luck.
Mike
Last edited by Der Ami; 09/22/25 10:23 AM.
