I've been enjoying reloading .30-40 and shooting my new to me carbine for a few weeks now and believed that it had a bad ejector. No matter how fast you work the bolt the mty case seldom ejects and will fall back into the action. A few minutes ago I removed the sideplate and there's no protruding ejector pin. The pin is flush to the receiver. At first I thought that the pin had gotten broken but now I wonder if a previous owner had lost the correct pin and replaced it with a homemade pin. There is a lot of slop in the ejector which could be from a too small or a deformed, too soft pin which could affect how much 'kick' it would have. But how do I remove the short pin? Knock the hell out of the side plate side of the receiver with a rubber mallet or Dremel the side of the action around the pin to expose enough of it to pull it out? Drill it out? Anybody else run into this problem? I'm open to any ideas.