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4/6/2010 6:46:42 PM EDT
Is it feasible to run a Hard Chrome extractor with steel case ammo?  Or would you have to change the whole or bolt and carrier? I shoot a lot of SC and was just thinking about it after seeing the Smith HC extractor in Brownells.  Thanks
4/6/2010 7:01:16 PM EDT
[#1]
It would be cheaper and easier to stock a couple of mil-spec replacement extractors (like those from BCM). Extractors are something you should have spares of regardless of which ammo you shoot.
4/6/2010 7:29:07 PM EDT
[#2]
I do carry a spare extractor in my parts kit. Along with af ew other parts. The HC extractor was about twice the price of a reg one in the brownells cat.  I havent priced extractors at the gun shows.  I want to say I paid around 12 or 15 for the last one. That was a while ago. I put the new one in and kept the old one as a spare.
4/6/2010 7:43:00 PM EDT
[#3]
Yep, it looks like extractors are running anywhere from $15 to over $35 on Brownells.com. I'd just buy one or two ofthese and call it good. $30 a kit, but you get the extractor, the proper spring and insert, an o-ring, and a set of gas rings––all good quality.
4/6/2010 8:09:36 PM EDT
[#4]
I got a kit from Brownells.  I didnt have the gas rings but it gave everythig else and the ejector spring and pin.  It was the same price.  I guess Iam good extrator wise.  Iwas just looking thru the Brownells cat and started thinking about the Hard chrome ext.
4/7/2010 4:44:36 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted:
Yep, it looks like extractors are running anywhere from $15 to over $35 on Brownells.com. I'd just buy one or two ofthese and call it good. $30 a kit, but you get the extractor, the proper spring and insert, an o-ring, and a set of gas rings––all good quality.


+1

And to the OP, you're going to have to shoot many 1,000's of rounds to wear out that extractor, steel cased or not.  Other things will likely fail first, and still not be due to the steel cased fodder.
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