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4. To close the slide, again check to be sure the chamber and breech-face are
empty. Pull the slide to its rearmost postion and release it. The slide will snap
forward. Keep fingers out of ejection port on top of slide!
5. If the magazine contains cartridges, they can be removed by sliding each car-
tridge forward and out of magazine, one at a time, until the magazine is
empty.
6. Push empty (unloaded) magazine into frame until magazine latch locks it in
place.
TO RELOAD THE PISTOL
1. Firing all cartridges in the magazine and the chamber will cause the slide to
automatically lock open. Keep the pistol pointed in a safe direction. Reloading
can be accomplished by moving either the right- or left-hand safety lever fully
downward to the “safe” position (lever fully down, white dot and the letter “S”
exposed) and then pressing forward on either magazine latch with the thumb
or forefinger. The magazine will fall free of the pistol of its own weight. To
avoid the possibility of damage to the magazine, do not let it fall to the
ground unless rapid reloading is absolutely necessary.
2. Insert a loaded magazine. WARNING: The slide stop is spring-loaded to move
downward. Therefore, when there is a loaded magazine in place and the pistol
is jarred, the slide can fly forward and chamber a cartridge. For this reason
and as an essential safety practice, the safety of the pistol should always be
fully “on” except when the user is positioned to fire the gun at a selected tar-
get.
3. Release the slide to move forward by either depressing the rear portion of the
slide stop or pulling the slide fully to the rear and release it. A cartridge will
be chambered when the slide shuts. If you are ready to fire immediately move
the manual safety fully upward to its “Fire” position. WARNING: The pistol is
ready to fire in the “double action” mode once manual safety is disengaged. It
can also be recocked to fire in the single-action mode.
4. If the pistol is not to be fired immediately, depress the manual safety fully
until the hammer drops and keep the safety “on” at all times except when
actually firing. When you are finished firing the pistol, unload it completely.
(See pages 17 - 19.)
TO EXTRACT AND
EJECT A CHAMBERED CARTRIDGE
When the pistol is fired, the same gas pressure that drives the bullet forward also
acts through the cartridge case to push the slide to the rear. The action causes
extraction and ejection of the fired cartridge case. If a cartridge fails to fire or if
the shooter wishes to eject the chambered cartridge manually, follow the proce-
dure “To Unload” step 3, p. 18. When the slide is operated by hand, there can be a
failure to extract the cartridge from the chamber, or a failure to eject the