Extractor question - PM45 specifically (prob same for all PMs...)

[billpocz]

My break-in period is over for my PM45. :D

Recently, I was trying some Hornady ammo, and inserted a full mag with the slide locked back. I released the slide lock with my right thumb and the slide went forward, until for some reason, I caught it in mid-stroke with my left hand.

I locked it back, but there was a round sitting in the chamber. :eek:

I jiggled the weapon and safely removed the round...

OK, my question, what would happen if I had let the slide go forward (with the round sitting in or near the chamber)? Could the extractor be damaged?

Thanks for the imput!

Bill

[Bawanna]

The extractor could be damaged but most likely not from a single time like that. Theres enough travel in the extractor to handle it but it's not recommended to drop the slide on a chambered round. Many others are the same way. 1911's, you name it. They are designed to pickup and slide under the extractor from the mag.
Now and then probably isn't catastrophic but a steady diet doing that would lead to a broken or worn extractor.

[CJB]

Just my 2c.... but if I close my own PM45 over a chambered round... ever so gently so the extractor is just touching the rim, recoil spring tension itself, with no inertia from a moving slide, is enough to snick that extractor over the edge and into the groove. IOW, it goes in there "like buttah".

Kahr warns against it though.