Colt 1911 .45 Extractor Lengths

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  • edporch

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    I'm not able to find a straight answer on this.

    Is the extractor of a Colt 1911 from the 1920's shorter than the extractor of a modern day 1911?

    Somebody sent me this picture of a modern day 1911 and a 1927 Sistema Colt, which is a licensed clone of a Colt 1911 built with Colt tooling.
    The extractors look vastly different in length.

    They're claiming it has the wrong extractor.
    I'm not so sure.

    I told them to install the extractor and check the gap between the extractor hook and the breach face?
    Should one look for .075” to .085” between the hook and breechface?
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