Manual

TO LOAD AND FIRE (WITH MAGAZINE)

Practice this important aspect of gun handling (with an unloaded rifle) until you

can perform each of the steps – described below – with skill and confidence. But

before you do anything with the rifle, please first read completely through this

manual. Keep your finger of

f the trigger until you are ready to immediately shoot

at a target!

1. Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction. (See Rule 2, p. 31).

2. Put the safety “on” (fully protruding from the right side of the trigger guard).

See Figure 1, p. 5.

3. Pull the cocking handle rearward. Engage the slide stop so that the slide is

held open. Check the chamber to be certain it is empty.

4. To remove the magazine, use thumb to depress magazine latch button on the

left side of the magazine well and at the same time grasp the magazine

between the fingers of the same hand to draw it out of the magazine well. (See

Figure 3). Do not drop the magazine out of the rifle onto a hard or dirty sur-

face -- you may damage it or otherwise induce malfunctions.

Figure 3. The safety should be “on”

when the magazine is being removed

or inserted. When the magazine latch

button is pushed in, the magazine is

released. Depress the latch with the

thumb and at the same time grasp

the magazine between your fingers

and draw it downward out of the gun.

REMEMBER to check to be sure the

chamber is empty after removing the

magazine!

5. Load the magazine by sliding up to 15* 9mm or 11* .40 Auto cartridges of the

same caliber as that marked on the receiver of your rifle into the magazine.

The Ruger CARBINE is designed to function properly only with correct Ruger

magazines loaded with factory ammunition of the correct type and caliber

loaded to U.S. industry specifications.

6. Insert magazine fully into the firearm, with bullet end of the cartridges toward

the muzzle, until it is locked in place by the magazine latch. (Magazine cannot

be seated if reversed).

* By Federal Law, newly manufactured magazines with a capacity of greater than

10 (ten) cartridges are designated “For Law Enforcement Use Only” and are

only sold to law enforcement and government agencies. Commercially sold

rifles are supplied with 10 round magazines only

Removing Magazine (Safety “On”)