anybody can LOOK at a 1911, as the slide is gently pushed back, and see that the slide has to go back further to cock the hammer than it has to just to load a new round. Obviously ejection has to occur before feeding. Also, the issue here was a .22 blowback auto, and blowbacks will extract WITHOUT an extractor, if the round fires, and the chamber is properly shaped and polished. The extractor on such a gun is mainly present only for extracting live rds. Witness the Beretta tip up autopistols, which have NO extractors at all.