Maynard extractor?

[B-Davis]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=371105739

To All:
I am shopping around for a new carbine and I came across this listing. I have no interest in this maynard, because I think somebody butchered it. It is listed as 52 caliber, and it has an extractor! Has anyone ever seen an extractor on a model 2 maynard?!?
Please educate me if I am wrong. I have never seen one.
Bryan

[John Bly]

That extractor is a blacksmith addition to the gun. It was not done by the factory. The Maynard cartridge "retractor" was patented in 1865 but it was never used on any military carbines. It was a small sliding bar under the barrel activated by the rotation of the link as the lever was opened. Only about .060" movement was possible with the linkage and it was never a very good extractor. It was used on Maynard sporting models until production and sales ended after Stevens purchased the assets of Mass Arms in the mid 1890's.

[RaiderANV]

The guy asked for info on it months ago. I told him it's a second model gun that somehow got the lower tang broke. That's a model 1865 lower tang with date still on it but the 1865 serial number filed off.

As cases were used and reused they expanded and you couldn't get them out. Someone made that extractor I'm guessing 1880-1900 to help get the shells out.