Just curious, anybody know how common it is for extractor alignment pins to fall out. I was at the range with my son shooting my 17-5 yesterday, today while cleaning I saw one of the pins hanging out the back of the extractor noticing then that the other was missing. A bit disconcerting considering the gun only has about 1500 rounds through it. It took about an hour to fix, I had to trim some #53 drill shank down to .0565 and cut to .2 that seemed to give me about a .0006 press fit. I'm quite certain that I know when the first pin came out yesterday, I was double action shooting when on the second or third shot on a particular cylinder full when the trigger seemed to hang very early in the stroke, I released the trigger, dropped the muzzle perplexed, cocked it single action lined up fired it and finished the cylinder double action. Almost certainly when I ejected that load of brass I also tossed the first pin. The new ones aren't going anywhere they're hard and tight. I almost put the gun away for another days work but one of my pet peeves is a broken gun in the safe thus Memorial Day afternoon in the shop.