Manual

UNLOADING

• Remove your trigger finger from the trigger and out of the

trigger guard. (Figure 12).

• Place the safety lever in the up “safe” position.

•Point the muzzle in a safe direction. Depress the magazine

release, and remove the magazine. Place the safety lever

into the down “fire” position. With the muzzle still pointing in a

safe direction, and with your finger off the trigger and outside

the trigger guard, grasp the serrated sides of the slide from

the rear with the thumb and fingers, and briskly draw the slide

fully rearward in order to extract any cartridge from the barrel

chamber and clear it from the pistol. Do not obstruct the

ejection port because doing so can interfere with ejection of a

cartridge and thereby creates the risk of exploding an

unchambered cartridge and possible injury. (See figure 13).

Visually check the barrel chamber to be sure it is empty.

• Unload the magazine by holding it with the bullet end of the

cartridge pointing away from you and pressing each cartridge

forward and out of the magazine.

CLEARING MISFIRES

• If during firing, a cartridge fails to fire, the chamber must be

manually cleared. Wait ten seconds while keeping the muzzle

pointed in a safe direction. Grasp the serrated sides of the slide

from the rear and briskly pull the slide fully rearward to eject the

misfired round. Keep your finger off of the trigger and out of the

trigger guard. Do not obstruct the ejection port, and do not

attempt to catch the round by placing your hand over the ejection

port. (See figure 10) Also, remember that any time you release the

slide while a magazine containing cartridges is in the pistol, you will

have reloaded the chamber.

FIGURE 12 FIGURE 13

FIGURE 14

FIGURE 15

DECOCKING CONT’D.