Manual

20
WARNING - SLIDE RETRACTION
The slide should always be pulled
rearward (“retracted”) by pulling the
rear
portion of the slide. Always keep
fingers away from trigger!
Never put any part of your hands or
body over the muzzle while retracting
the slide for loading, unloading,
inspection, or clearing a malfunction.
KEEP HANDS
AWAY FROM MUZZLE AND
FINGER OFF TRIGGER
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
cartridge 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 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 procedure “To
Unload,” p.19. 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 cartridge clear of the pistol.
These failures usually are the result of the slide not being pulled rearward
vigorously. The gun user must:
1. Always visually check the chamber and the breech-face after opening the slide to
eject a chambered cartridge. If the slide is not vigorously retracted when being
operated by hand, the extracted cartridge can be “ejected” into the magazine-
well of the grip frame or remain held to the breech-face by the extractor.