Manual

SECTION 4 FUNCTION
Your Colt Single Action revolver will be ready to fire when chambers in
the cylinder are loaded with ammunition (see loading instructions), and
hammer has been drawn all the way back past Safety and Half-Cock
positions to the Cocked position. The Action of "cocking" lowers cylinder
locking bolt, rotates cylinder to carry a round of ammunition into align-
ment with barrel and hammer, raises cylinder locking bolt to lock cy-
linder and holds hammer under spring tension. When trigger is
squeezed, hammer falls forward causing firing pin to pass through the
firing pin hole and strike primer of base of cartridge. The energy im-
parted to the primer ignites it, in turn igniting the main charge which, in
burning, rapidly generates extremely high gas pressure to drive the
bullet down the barrel. Rifling grooves in the barrel impart stabilizing spin
to the bullet so that it will follow a more accurate path to the target.
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&CAUTION: TO MINIMIZE RISK OF UNINTENTIONAL DAMAGE,
LOAD LIVE AMMUNITION INTO REVOLVER ONLY WHEN YOU
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ARE ABOUT TO SHOOT.
illCAUTION: BEFORE LOADING STOREKEEPER'S OR SHE-
RIFF'S MODEL MAKE SURE THAT AMMUNITION MATCHES
THE CYLINDER INSTALLED and never load a cylinder unless
it is installed in the revolver frame.
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SAFETY DEPENDS ON YOU