Owner's Manual

LOwERING THE HAMMER

WARNING

WHENEVER YOU LOWER THE HAMMER, ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A SAFE DIRECTION.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU PISTOL IS COMPLETELY UNLOADED AND THAT NO NON-SPENT CARTRIDGE

IS IN THE CHAMBER.

FAILURE TO RESPECT THESE wARNINGS MAY LEAD TO SERIOUS INJURY OR EVEN DEATH

To lower the hammer from cocked to down position, we recommend that you proceed as follows:

1 Make sure that the rearm is completely unloaded as explained in the «Unloading» section.

Put the manual safety catch in the «safety on» position.

2 Load an empty magazine into the pistol.

3 Point the muzzle in a safe direction, hold the gun rmly in a normal ring position and move the

manual safety catch to the «safety o» position.

4 Take hold of the hammer with the other hand and pull the trigger so that the hammer can move

slowly forward, whilst you keep its movement under control at the same time (Figure 9). Let the

hammer come slowly forward until it reaches the half-cocked position.

WARNING

WHEN THE HAMMER GOES BEYOND THE COCKED POSITION, REMOVE YOUR FINGER FROM THE

TRIGGER

THIS WILL MAKE THE HAMMER STOP IN THE HALF-COCKED POSITION IF EVER IT SLIPS AWAY FROM

YOUR THUMB.

AILURE TO RESPECT THIS wARNING MAY LEAD TO SERIOUS INJURY OR EVEN DEATH.

5 With the hammer in a half-cocked position, pull the hammer slightly backwards and press the

trigger until the hammer goes beyond the half-cocked position.

6 Lower the hammer until it is in contact with the ring pin.

The hammer is now in a «down» position.

SLIDE

The slide catch is located on the left-hand side of the pistol (Figure 10). Whenever an empty magazine

is tted, the slide can be locked in the back position purely by taking hold of it by the grooved section,

and pulling it backwards as far as possible until the slide catch automatically enters the slot in the slide.

If no empty magazine is loaded, pull the slide as far backwards as possible, and hold it in position for

pushing the slide catch upwards into the slot. The slide is now locked in a back position.

When the last cartridge in the magazine has been red, the slide locks itself automatically in the back

position.

This position is an extra safety precaution and makes the chamber and the magazine easy to inspect.

When closing the slide, take care to keep your ngers away from the ejection opening and the trigger.

With the pistol muzzle pointed in a safe direction, simply lower the slide catch located on the left-hand

side of the receiver.

Immediately after closing the slide, lower the hammer to the «down» position and put the manual

safety catch in the «safety on» position.

MAGAZINE CAPACITY

The Browning 1911-22 magazine has a capacity of 10 cartridges.