Okay, last night I looked it over for the first time in almost seven years of being tucked away and noticed one small problem: The extractor and it's related parts(i.e. spring, pin, etc...) are missing from the top front of the bolt face. If anyone has ideas where I can get a replacement for it( and that's probably a tall request) I would be very grateful. Anyhow, I went ahead and installed the unit onto the pistol anyway to check for fit and function when at least manually cycling a round into the chamber. While pointing it into a "shoot box" for safety, it performed very smoothly with all five rounds, although I had to raise the pistol upwards while holding the bolt back to let each round drop out of the chamber when cycling due to absence of the extractor. The mag follower has a small ledge on the rear which catches the bolt after the last round, allowing the bolt to stay open after the last shot is fired, like it's 9mm counterpart. If I can get hold of an extractor, then I could actually fire the damn thing and give a real report on how it works. I really feel that it would perform very well.
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