Manual

• Do not load your revolver until you have read and

understand ALL of the instructions in this manual.

• Do not load your revolver until you are at the shooting site

and fully prepared to fire.

• To load your revolver, hold it in one hand with the barrel

pointed in a safe direction and away from you and others

while keeping your finger off the trigger and out of the

trigger guard. Place the hammer into either the

safety/carry condition (cylinder stop up) or the half cock

condition (cylinder stop down).

PLACING YOUR REVOLVER IN THE

SAFETY/CARRY CONDITION

• With the barrel pointed in a safe direction and your finger

out of the trigger guard, push back the frame mounted latch

and rotate the barrel downward. Continue to open the

frame and barrel until the extractor snaps back into the

cylinder.

• Look at the cylinder stop. If it is up (in the safety/carry

condition - protruding above the inner frame surface -

Figure 9), go on to “Closing Your Revolver”. If the cylinder

stop is down (half cock condition - not protruding above the

inner frame surface - Figure 10), do the following:

WARNING !!

IT IS UNSAFE TO REST THE HAMMER ON THE FIRING

PIN WITH A LIVE CARTRIDGE IN THE CHAMBER. THE

FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS MUST BE FOLLOWED TO

AVOID UNINTENDED DISCHARGE OF THE FIREARM.

FIGURE 9

FIGURE 10

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