Manual

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23.Treat this gun as a precision instrument.
24.Old or reloaded ammunition may be dangerous.
We strongly recommend against using it.
25.Don’t try to change your gun’s trigger pull. Alteration
of the trigger pull usually affects sear engagement
and may cause accidental discharge. Altering your
gun in any way may also void your warranty.
YOUR GUN IS A MECHANICAL DEVICE WHICH
WILL NOT LAST FOREVER AND IS SUBJECT TO
WEAR. WHEN SOMETHING DOES NOT SOUND,
FEEL, OR LOOK RIGHT, SEEK THE ADVICE OF A
PROFESSIONAL GUNSMITH IMMEDIATELY.
NEVER TAKE A CHANCE.
WARNING!
Stevens shotguns are manufactured to perform properly
with the original parts as designed. Your gun is a
complex tool, with many parts that must relate correctly
to other parts. Assembling a gun incorrectly or with
modified parts can be extremely dangerous and may
cause severe damage to the firearm and serious
injury/death to the shooter or to others. Repair work
should only be done by Savage Arms Service
Department or a qualified gunsmith. Unauthorized repair
will void your warranty.
PROTECT YOUR EYES AND EARS
Always wear adequate shooting glasses and ear
protectors when you are shooting.
Always make certain that persons close to you are
wearing similar ear and eye protection. Unprotected
eyes may be injured by powder gas, carbon residues,
lubricants, metallic particles or similar debris which may
emanate occasionally from any firearm in normal use.
Moreover, without ear protection, repeated exposure to
shooting may lead to permanent hearing loss.
AMMUNITION
1. Use only high quality, original, factory-manufactured
shotgun shells, complying with SAAMI requirements
or other similar national standards. Do not use
cartridges that are dirty, wet, corroded, malformed or
damaged. Do not oil cartridges or spray aerosol type
lubricants, preservatives or cleaners directly onto
cartridges or where excess spray may flow into
contact with cartridges. Lubricants and other foreign
materials on cartridges can cause potentially
dangerous ammunition malfunctions. Use only the
gauge or caliber ammunition which the firearm was
chambered for and is marked on the left side of
the barrel.
2. The use of reloaded, “remanufactured”, hand-loaded
or other non-standard ammunition voids all
warranties. Improperly loaded ammunition can be
extremely dangerous and may cause severe
damage to the firearm and serious injury to the
shooter or to others. Always use ammunition that
complies with the industry performance standards
established by SAAMI.
3. 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 or defectively assembled cartridges. In
addition, the use of a dirty, corroded or damaged
cartridges can lead to a burst cartridge case and
consequent damage to the firearm and personal
injury from the sudden escape of high-pressure
propellant gas from the firearm’s mechanism.
4. If:
• You have difficulty or feel unusual resistance in
chambering a cartridge, or
• A cartridge misfires or does not go off, or
• The mechanism fails to extract a fired cartridge
case, or
• Unburned grains of propellant powder are
discovered spilled in the mechanism, or
• A shot sounds weak or abnormal
Immediately stop shooting and check for
possible obstructions in the barrels. In such
cases it is possible that a wad is lodged
partway down the barrel. Firing a
subsequent shot into the obstructed barrel
WILL damage the firearm and cause serious
injury to the shooter or to bystanders.
If there is any reason to suspect that
something is obstructing the barrel (this can
be anything – dirt, mud, snow, sand, water,
a wad etc.) immediately unload the firearm
and look through both bores from the
breech end. It is not sufficient to merely look
in the chambers. An obstruction may be
lodged some distance down the barrel,
where it can not easily be seen.