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5. The use of reloaded, "remanufactured", hand-loaded, or other non-standard ammunition voids all warranties.
Reloading is a science and improperly loaded ammunition can be extremely dangerous. Severe damage to the
firearm and serious injury to the shooter or to others may result. Reloaded ammunition that may function in a
bolt or slide action firearm may not properly function and may even explode in a semi-automatic.
The risk of a
mishap is reduced by using current clean military ammunition or ammunition that complies with the industry
performance standards established by the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute, Inc. of
the United States, (SAAMI).
6.
Firearms may be severely damaged and serious injury to the shooter or to others may result from any condition
causing excessive pressure inside the chamber or barrel during firing. Excessive pressure can be caused by
obstructions in the barrel, propellant powder overloads, or by the use of incorrect cartridges or defectively
assembled cartridges. In addition, the use of dirty, corroded, or damaged cartridges may cause personal injury
from the sudden escape of high-pressure propellant gas within the firearm's mechanism.
7. Immediately stop shooting and check the barrel for an obstruction whenever:
•You have difficulty in, or feel unusual resistance in, chambering a cartridge
•A cartridge misfires (does not go off)
• The mechanism fails to extract a fired cartridge case
•
Unburned grains of propellant powder are discovered spilled in the mechanism
•A shot sounds weak or abnormal. In such cases it is possible that a bullet is lodged part way down the
barrel. Firing a subsequent bullet into the obstructed barrel can destroy the firearm and cause serious injury
to the shooter and to bystanders.
8. Bullets can become lodged in the barrel:
• If the cartridge has been improperly loaded without propellant powder, or if the powder fails to ignite.
(Ignition of the cartridge primer alone will push the bullet out of the cartridge case, but usually does not
generate sufficient energy to expel the bullet completely from the barrel.)
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