Manual

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. Remember that doing so deactivates the magazine disconnect and a

cartridge left in the chamber will now fire if the trigger is pulled. Be careful!

TO RELOAD THE PISTOL

1. Firing all cartridges in the magazine and the chamber will cause the slide to

automatically lock open. Keep the pistol pointed in a safe direction. Press in

on either magazine latch with the thumb or forefinger. The magazine will fall

free of the pistol of its own weight if the slide is locked open. To avoid the

possibility of damage to the magazine, do not let it fall to the ground unless

rapid reloading is absolutely necessary.

2. Insert a loaded magazine. WARNING: The slide stop is held in place by the

slide pressing against the rear of the slide stop. Therefore, when there is a

loaded magazine in place and the pistol is jarred, the slide can fly forward and

chamber a cartridge. For this reason and as an essential safety practice, the

pistol should always be pointed in a safe direction.

3. Release the slide to move forward by either depressing the rear portion of the

slide stop or pulling the slide fully to the rear and release it. A cartridge will

be chambered when the slide shuts. WARNING: The pistol is ready to fire. If

you are not going to immediately shoot the pistol, engage the safety by

moving the safety lever upward so that the red oval is fully covered and the

white dot is exposed. When you are finished firing the pistol, unload it

completely (see pages 18 - 19).

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” step 3, p. 18. When the slide is operated by hand, there

can be a failure to extract the cartridge from the chamber, or a failure to eject