Originally Posted by
Ned Christiansen
Can't say I can recognize any particular brand of extractor, one from another. Nor have I been able to note one brand failing more than another-- mostly because I've probably only seen maybe a dozen fail and did not have good info as to what brand.......
Except for one gun I saw this spring.... it had bad parts even I have never seen. How about:
A cast extractor? I did say CAST. I thought I had seen it all in the heyday of crappy AR parts, circa 1985. Gas tubes made from what looked like break line, etc.
A two-piece, welded aluminum charging handle.... oh yeah. Front part cast as I recall, rear part machined, fitted together and welded on one side only. I have it around here somewhere.