Manual

ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION.
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WARNING: AMMUNITION
1. Use only high quality, original, factory-manufactured ammunition. Do not
use cartridges that are dirty, wet, corroded, bent or damaged. Do not oil
cartridges. Do not spray aerosol-type lubricants, preservatives, or cleaners
directly onto cartridges or where excess spray may flow into contact with
cartridges. Lubricant or other foreign matter on cartridges can cause
potentially dangerous ammunition malfunctions. Use only ammunition of the
caliber for which your firearm is chambered. The proper caliber is
permanently engraved on your firearm; never attempt to use ammunition of
any other caliber.
2. The use of reloaded, “remanufactured”, hand-loaded, or other non-
standard ammunition voids all warranties. Improperly loaded ammunition
voids all warranties. Improperly loaded ammunition can be extremely
dangerous. Severe damage to the firearm and serious injury to the shooter
or to others may result. Always use ammunition that complies with the
industry performance standards established by the Sporting Arms and
Ammunition Manufacturers Institute, Inc., of the United States, (SAAMI) or
the equivalent from other countries.
3. Firearms may be severely damaged and serious injury to the shooter or to
others may result from any condition causing excessive pressure inside the
chamber or barrel during firing. Excessive pressure can be caused by
obstructions in the barrel, propellant powder overloads, or by the use of
incorrect cartridges or defectively assembled cartridges. In addition, the use
of a dirty, corroded, or damaged cartridge can lead to a burst cartridge case
and consequent damage to the firearm and personal injury from the sudden
escape of high-pressure propellant gas within the firearm’s mechanism.
4. Immediately stop shooting and check the barrel for a possible obstruction
whenever:
• You have difficulty in, or feel unusual resistance in, chambering a
cartridge, or
• A cartridge misfires (does not go off), or
• The mechanism fails to extract a fired cartridge case, or
• Unburned grains of propellant powder are discovered spilled in
mechanism, or
• A shot sounds weak or abnormal.
In such cases it is possible that a bullet is lodged part way down the barrel.
Firing a subsequent bullet into the obstructed barrel can wreck the firearm
and cause serious injury to the shooter or to bystanders.
5.Bullets can become lodged in the barrel.
• If the cartridge has been improperly loaded without propellant powder, or if
the powder fails to ignite (Ignition of the cartridge primer alone will push the
bullet out the cartridge case, but usually does not generate sufficient
energy to expel the bullet completely from the barrel).
• If the bullet is not properly seated tightly in the cartridge case.
When such a cartridge is extracted from the chamber without being fired, the
bullet may be left behind in the bore at the point where the rifling begins.
Subsequent chambering of another cartridge may push the first bullet further
into the bore.
6. If there is any reason to suspect that a bullet is obstructing the barrel,
immediately unload the firearm and look through the bore. It is not sufficient
to merely look in the chamber. A bullet may be lodged some distance down
the barrel where it can not easily be seen.