Manual

• Do not load the pistol until you are about to fire.

Keep your finger outside the trigger guard until you are ready

to fire.

WARNING: These Smith & Wesson centerfire pistols

will fire with the magazine removed. Keep your fin-

ger off the trigger and outside of the trigger guard

until you have made the commitment to fire.

• Only use Smith & Wesson magazines specifically

manufactured for your particular model of pistol. Do not

interchange magazines from one model pistol into another

model pistol.

• 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.

•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 9) 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.

• Hold the pistol in one hand with the muzzle pointing in a safe

direction and with your finger off the trigger and outside the

trigger guard. Insert the loaded magazine into the magazine

well of the pistol until it is locked in place.

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.

FIGURE 9