Just curious, I have always wondered why it isn't offered as a factory option. I don't know if there is some technical reason ejectors can't be added due to their manual cocking device.

I would think the primary reason is cost/price point. I also don't doubt that ejectors would be a trick to integrate with the cocking system. Either way, it's a rifle, and as long as it's chambered for a flanged shell, there's no need.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

About 3 or 4 years ago in Reno when shopping for my first double I asked the same question to Krieghoff. In a very snobbish and rude way they basically told me I was clueless when it came to doubles and that they would never make a large double rifle with ejectors. If they have made them before with ejectors before I don't know. I went and found Chris in his Heym booth after this happened and got my first double rifle on order. What a slippery slope that has been, Heym is working on my third double from them right now and my fifth overall.

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Originally posted by 400 Nitro Express:
I would think the primary reason is cost/price point. I also don't doubt that ejectors would be a trick to integrate with the cocking system. Either way, it's a rifle, and as long as it's chambered for a flanged shell, there's no need.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

I think Mark is looking in the right dirrection. If I remember correctly, when you remove the barrels from the action of a K-gun you will see a somewhat different lug system under the barrels. The cocking levers run through the middle, between, what is a pair of lumps that are side by side with the cocking levers between them, and the extractors are activated by a fin in the middle beteen the cocking levers, that works to cam the extractor rearward on opening. There is no place to put the ejectors unless you totally re-design the lump/cocking lever system to make room for the ejector hammers to opperate on the ejector rods.

The only way to do this would be to re-design the cocking levers, or the ejectors to the middle of each lump, leaving room for the ejectors to be installed in the center between the lumps.

Of course you must realize I'm working from a 73 yr old memory from looking at the K-gun system probably ten years ago, and may be totally incorrect. Still, the selective ejectors are not an option at all, nor have they ever been, and IMO, are not a necessary feature, but that is a personal choice on my part.

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By McKay:

About 3 or 4 years ago in Reno when shopping for my first double I asked the same question to Krieghoff. In a very snobbish and rude way they basically told me I was clueless when it came to doubles and that they would never make a large double rifle with ejectors.

McKay, I have refused to buy anything form snobbs more than once in my life, and in this case you got a better rifle anyway, and certainly a better person to deal with!