Extractor Plunger

[rocky321]

Is there more than on size/configuration? I was at the show this past Sunday and this one vendor had only M1 parts. He had a box full of used extractors and just glancing at them I could see varying shapes.

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[browningautorifle]

He probably had the whole phone book of parts so with the length of time produced and different countries/manufacturers involved they would have some differences.

[DaveHH]

the first was pointed or cone shaped and didn't work well with the extractor design. The second is a half flat design that sat on a corresponding shelf in the newest extractor. That is the only one to use.
You may be talking about ejectors which are in three types; a multi angled face type 1 and a flat shaped type 2 followed by an almost cone shaped type 3. These all work equally well.

[Tired Retired]

Be aware that some of them may have been post-war commercial carbine production.

I have gotten a "authorized substitution" manufactured by a commercial producer from one major supplier once. I compared it to what came in USGI bolts and found the shaft longer and it a few thousands of an inch larger in diameter. I sent it back.