Manual

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At thispoint the cartridge case strikes against the ejector in the frame which frees it from
the extractor and hurls it out the right-top-side of the pistol.
The barrel bushing (78) around the muzzle of the barrel, which also locks and
supports the recoil spring plug (84), presses back against the plug to compress the recoil
spring (83) below the barrel over the recoil spring guide (80). This stores up energy for
return movement of the slide.
The momentum of the slide strikes the hammer a sharp blow, driving it back to the
full-cock position where the sear spring (16) forces the point of the sear (14) into the
notch on the hammer to hold it at full-cock.
As the hammer (06) rocks back on its axis (11), it forces down the strut which is
attached to it and the bottom of the strut, being mounted in the hammer spring plunger
(10) above the hammer spring (09) in the grip, thrust downward to compress the hammer
spring to provide energy for the next forward motion of the hammer.
At the first rearward motion of the slide, the beveled niche in the underside of
the slide exerts pressure on the rounded head of the interrupter (25), forcing it down
against the sear bar (23) to diesengage it from the tail of the sear (14) while finger
pressure on the trigger is maintained.
The fore-end of the sear bar (23) presses against the trigger plunger (22) which
returns the trigger to firin position, under the pressure of its spring (21) to permit
engagement of the sear (14) when the slide next goes forward to the fully closed position
and finger pressure on the trigger is momentarily released.
The magazine spring (56) forces the follower (54) up, pressing the cartridges inside
the magazine well against the magazine retaining lips so that the head of the top cartridge
is in direct line with the breechblock which will strip it forward into the firing chamber
when the slide again goes forward.