User's Manual

Instruction Manual Little & Double Badger, rev. October 2014 Pag. 7
AMMUNITION
NOTICE
WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE OR INJURY
WHATSOEVER OCCURRING IN CONNECTION WITH, OR AS THE RESULT OF, THE
USE OF FAULTY, OR NONSTANDARD, OR “REMANUFACTURED” OR HANDLOADED
(RELOADED) AMMUNITION, OR OF CARTRIDGES OTHER THAN THOSE FOR WHICH
THE FIREARM WAS ORIGINALLY CHAMBERED.
• Death, serious injury, and damage can result from the use of wrong ammunition, bore
obstructions, powder overloads, or incorrect cartridge components.
• Use only ammunition specifically recommended for your firearm (the caliber is specified on
the barrel/cylinder/frame).
• Always use cartridges whose length is equal or inferior to that indicated on the barrel.
• Use only high quality, original factory manufactured ammunition whose pressure cannot be
higher than the one stated by S.A.A.M.l. or C.I.P.
• Your gun has been designed for ammunition of a specific caliber – do not alter the barrel,
chamber, caliber for which your gun was designed.
• Be sure you never mix ammunition.
• Firearms may be severely damaged, and serious injury to the shooter or others may result
from any condition causing excessive pressure inside the chamber or barrel during firing.
Excessive pressure can be caused by obstruction in the barrel, propellant powder overloads,
or by the use of incorrect 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.
Immediately stop shooting and check the barrel for a possible obstruction whenever:
 You have difficulty in, or feel unusual resistance in chambering a cartridge
 A cartridge misfires (does not go off)
 The mechanism fails to extract a fired cartridge case
 Unburned grains of propellant powder are discovered spilled in the mechanism
 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 damage the firearm and cause serious
injury to the shooter or bystanders.
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 of 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.
• 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 cannot easily be seen. If a
bullet is in the bore, do not attempt to shoot it out by using another cartridge, or by blowing it
out with a blank or one from which the bullet has been removed. Such techniques can
generate excessive pressure, damage the firearm and cause serious personal injury. If the
bullet can be easily removed with a wood or brass dowel, (using hand pressure only, never
"hammer" a bullet lodged in the bore) clean any unburned powder grains from the bore,