I hope you can still get an accessory barrel with an ejector James B but if they have sold all their earlier barrels all you may be able to get is one of the newer cheaper extractor fitted barrels. Depending on what you want it for it may work well for you. If you are a target/bench shooter the extractor should work OK. If your a hunter you would of course be much better off with an ejector fitted barrel, if you did not want it it would onlt take a few minutes with a dremel tool to convert it to an extractor style. If you did get any sticky cases there are easy fixes to prevent them, clean and polish the chamber and either replace the ejector spring with one a bit stronger, place a spacer under one end of the spring to partially compress it and thereby make it stronger, or adding a second ejector spring of thinner diameter inside the original spring.
I have read the ejector problem began when H&R responded to several complaints of/by (stupid) people who were struck in the face by ejected cases. Why didn't they just move thier faces from the path of the ejected case before opening the gun!!! Anyway, H&R, in fear of a lawsuit started to put weaker ejector springs in the guns to expel the cases with less authority, and Bingo!! stuck cases began to happen. Isn't this a true representation of todays twisted society, some dumb woman spills coffee on herself after holding and squeezing the foam cup between her legs while driving and she sues MacDonalds, and wins!!! H&R's ejectors worked fine for many years until some reality challanged shooters left thier face in the path of ejected shells and H&R, in fear of a lawsuit, responded by using weaker springs that did not reliably do the job 100% of the time!!! Now we all suffer. If they had left in the strong springs converting an ejector to an extractor was a 5 to 10 minute job with a dremel tool. Now the newer and cheaper extractors cannot be converted to ejectors!!!....<><....
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