Remove extractor to headspace?

[Maxxwell86]

Is removing the extractor and firing pin from the bolt body the preferred method to head space a new barrel?

[drybean]

Not for myself, if I remove anything its the ejector

[Maxxwell86]

OOPS Ejector was what I meant...DOH!

[short round]

Make sure that extractor goes over rim of gauge.

[dcloco]

Why not remove both? Good time to check the spring and clean the pocket for the spring/ball while you have the bolt disassembled.

[LongRange]

I remove both extractor and ejector when i head space.

[barrel-nut]

Make sure that extractor goes over rim of gauge.

^. I remove nothing and have never had an issue. I screw the barrel into the action until i feel that it's close to correct. Then I just make sure to tuck the rim of the go gauge under the lip of the extractor, hold it in place, and close the bolt. Edit-Then run the barrel down to the go-Gauge. Back off just a little- maybe 1/16 of a turn, and tighten. Check with a no-go gauge.- Works fine. The camming action of closing the bolt, and/or the turning in of the barrel into the threads of the action, easily overcome the modest pushing force of the ejector.
When I first started doing it, I would remove the extractor as instructed with the Wheeler kit. I have decided that, for me, it's unnecessary if I'm careful with the placement of the go gauge on the bolt head.

[shagerott]

+1 to barrel-nut. Some gauges have a slot to clear the ejector. I line that up and it stays on the bolt.

[scooterf79]

+2 with barrel-nut, I dont remove anything either, just carefully place the go-gauge against the bolt face.
Scooter

[Steelhead]

I don't remove anything either.

[FW Conch]

+3 with barrel-nut :-))

[bootsmcguire]

+4 with barrel nut.

Been doing that way since day 1. I have rebarreled enough times I lost count a few years ago, always have done it this way with one exception, but that was a very out of the norm set of circumstances that time.

[Jetpig]

+5. Never had an issue

[Slowpoke Slim]

Odd man out I guess.

I have always removed the extractor. I've never messed with the ejector or firing pin.

[Blitzfike]

I cut a notch in the HS gage to clear the ejector on all those I have that didn't already have the cut. On some of my wildcats, I just use new formed brass and don't worry about the ejector. Barrel-Nut's method is probably the most used method I've seen.

[WYcoyote]

+6.

[Maxxwell86]

I cut a notch in the HS gage to clear the ejector on all those I have that didn't already have the cut.

Decided to cut a notch in my Forster guage and use Barrel-Nuts method...Thanx for the input.