Originally Posted by
LouF
Actually the original John Browning design for the 1911 had the extractor on the OUTSIDE.The US war department made him put it on the inside.That's what I read anyways.
Not really true.
Colt's first pistol chambered in .45 Auto the M1905 had an external extractor, that's true. But it was a one-piece, spring steel extractor, just like the internal one we know. And like the internal part, it ran from the breechface [almost] all the way to the rear of the slide. Browning simply took his existing external extractor and 'packaged' it internally. Mechanically, the two were identical and had nothing in common with the coil-spring articulated extractors that we see today.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
M. Setter
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