Manual

LOADING CONT’D.
• Smith & Wesson has provided you with a magazine
designed to operate in your specific model of pistol. While
your magazine may be able to be inserted into another
model pistol, it will only function properly in the specific
model for which it was designed. Do not interchange
magazines from one model pistol to another model pistol.
• Follow instructions in this manual and any other specific
instructions which may be marked onto, or accompany, a
magazine. Failure to use the particular type of Smith &
Wesson magazine specified for your model and caliber of
pistol may result in a malfunction.
• Load the magazine by pressing a cartridge head (rear of
cartridge) downward on the forward portion of the magazine
follower (or downward on the case of the previously loaded
cartridge) and sliding the cartridge fully under the lips of the
magazine until the cartridge head is against the rear wall of
the magazine. (Figure 10) Repeat the procedure for the
number of cartridges you wish to load, up to the magazine
capacity. Do not attempt to load your magazine with more
than the specified number of cartridges because doing so can
cause a feeding failure.
• Inspect your pistol as previously described in the “Inspecting
Your Pistol” section. Hold the pistol in one hand with the
muzzle pointing it in a safe direction and with your finger off
the trigger and outside the trigger guard. Insert the loaded
magazine into the magazine well (opening) of the pistol until
it is locked in place.
WARNING: VERIFY THAT THE FIRING PIN IS NOT
PROTRUDING FROM THE BREECH FACE.
WARNING: DO NOT USE EXCESSIVE UPWARD
FORCE WHEN INSERTING A LOADED MAGAZINE
INTO THE PISTOL. EXCESSIVE UPWARD FORCE
COULD CAUSE THE SLIDE TO MOVE FORWARD,
CHAMBERING A ROUND AND MAKING THE PISTOL
READY TO FIRE.
• To make sure that the magazine is fully and securely
inserted, apply some removal pressure to the exposed
portion of the magazine floorplate.
• Pull the slide to the rear, press down on the slide stop to
release the slide and allow it to carry fully forward. This strips
a cartridge from the magazine and seats it in the chamber of
the barrel.
W
ARNING:
IF THE CARTRIDGE FAILS TO STRIP FROM
THE MAGAZINE OR FULLY SEAT INTO THE CHAMBER,
IMMEDIATELY STOP THE LOADING PROCESS.
REMOVE THE MAGAZINE, LOCK THE SLIDE OPEN
AND
VERIFY
THA
T THE CHAMBER IS EMPTY. REFER
TO THE “INSPECTING YOUR PISTOL” SECTION OF
THIS MANUAL.
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