extractor issue-1917 remington

[horsesoldier]

I dug my 1917 out of the safe the other day and when I ran some hand loads through the other day it would extract them, but wouldn't kick them out.I have never taken the bolt apart or anything, any easy fixes?

[elk hunter]

Check the ejector spring. It's integral with the ejector if original. They're fragile and if they break the ejector doesn't get pushed out to engage the rim of the case to eject the round. If the spring is broken you can cut a pair of notches in the back side of the extractor where the spring was and fit a small coil spring in to do the job. If that's not it, check the extractor claw, sometimes they break, but generally only if you mistreat them.

[Dutchman]

From:

Description and Rules for the Management of the United States Rifle Caliber .30, Model of 1917. (printed 1918) Reproductions of this little booklet are easy to find and inexpensive. The Gov't published these for all small arms from as early as 1863 through the 1920s.

Parts G & H are the ejector and ejector spring.

http://images109.fotki.com/v779/photos/4/28344/9895637/Model1917Rifleejector-vi.jpg

http://images9.fotki.com/v174/photos/4/28344/9895637/Model1917Rifle2-vi.jpg

[Stockcarver]

Replace that flat spring ejector with a coil spring ejector.

[John 242]

IF you need an ejector, Numrich has them in stock for $13.75... IF you need one.
http://www.gunpartscorp.com/catalog/Detail.aspx?pid=957280&catid=11889

Hope they don't mind me borrowing their picture...
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/imagehosting/thum_153350044d8365206.jpg (http://castboolits.gunloads.com/vbimghost.php?do=displayimg&imgid=5916)

[MtGun44]

The integral ejector springs tend to break. They make one with a flat spring with a tiny
end rolled on it which is pushed into a hole in the ejector, right where the root of the
integral leaf is.

Dutchman's pic sure are a help, plus that Numrich one, too.

Bill