Manual

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5. Continue to lower the hammer to its safety notch position. You should practice
this procedure with your revolver empty until you are proficient and comfortable
with its handling. Only then should you think about using live ammunition.
Loading
Keeping your finger out of the trigger guard and off the trigger, draw the hammer
back to the half-cock position which makes the cylinder free to rotate. Then open
the loading gate as far as it will go. This will expose each chamber, one at a
time, as you rotate the cylinder. Make certain you have the exact caliber car-
tridges matching the exact caliber of your revolver. Then load one cartridge in
each chamber. Close the loading gate which, as you can see, becomes part of
the recoil shield. Then place the hammer in the safety notch position by drawing
it back, allow the hammer to travel slowly forward, but only far enough to pass its
halfcock notch position, carefully pull the trigger back, and, holding it back, slight-
ly to disengage it from its half-cock notch. Holding the hammer back out of its
halfcock notch position, carefully pull the trigger back, and, holding it back, allow
the hammer to travel slowly forward, but only far enough to pass its half-cock
notch. NOTE: You will not hear a click as it moves through the half-cock notch.
Then release the pressure on the trigger and continue to slowly lower the ham-
mer forward until it clicks into its safety position. Again, you should practice this
loading function without any cartridges until you are comfortable with handling
the hammer and are familiar with its respective notches. Then, and only then, are
you and your revolver ready for use.
Special warning for cal. 22
When loading the cylinder, be sure to push each cartridge fully into the chamber
to avoid interference of the cartridge rim with either the frame of the revolver or
the loading gate. Failure to fully seat the cartridge and any attempt to force the
cylinder to rotate or to force the loading gate closed could lead to possible deto-
nation of the cartridge and injury to the shooter. Remember to always keep the
muzzle pointed in a safe direction when the loading, and to close the loading
gate after loading before handling the further.
Unloading
Draw the hammer to its half-cock position and open the loading gate on the right
rear part of the frame. Push out each cartridge or empty case with the ejector
rod located under the barrel. Operate the ejector rod in each chamber
to its full length to assure full length case ejection. Close the loading gate after
you are sure that all six chambers in your revolver are empty.
Cleaning
Check first to make sure your revolver is empty. Then remove the cylinder using
the following steps:
1. Open the loading gate.
2. Put the hammer in its half-cock notch.
3. Depress the base pin catch. This is the spring loaded plunger which is located
on the left front side of the frame. Keep it depressed.
4. Slide the base pin all the way out. The base pin is the heavy pin around which
the cylinder revolves (and provides a bearing surface for the cylinder). It
should always be clean and lubricated. 5. Remove cylinder toward the loading
gate.
The cylinder is made to fit your revolver precisely and can be removed and re-
placed easily, but carefully. It is a close fit, so don’t force it to move in any direc-
tion. To reassemble, simply reverse the steps used in removal. When you
reassemble the base pin, make sure the base pin catch snaps back to its regu-
lar position. You can test this by making sure the plunger is free to move when
you depress it and it returnsunder its own spring pressure.
Use a wood, aluminum or brass cleaning rod (not steel), a brass bristle
brush, and patches appropriate to your revolver’s caliber to clean it. Use a good
quality cleaning solution to scrub the bore and each cylinder. While scrubbing
the bore, always brush all the way through the bore; never try to reverse direc-
tions while the brush is actually in the barrel or chamber. After scrubbing, run
clean patches through the bore and chambers until they come out clean. Then
completely, but lightly, oil the entire revolver. You’ll find that the oil will nicely
color the one piece grip of your revolver over the years, and it will develop and
retain a soft patina glow. Use a good quality brass polish on the back-strap and
trigger guard. The brass parts are solid brass, and, as such, will tarnish, reflect-
ing their good quality. It is easily removed with any good quality brass polish.
Use your revolver carefully and safely. Help us to help you keep and protect
your right to gun ownership.
CAUTION - Remember, when you fullcock your revolver to shoot it again, you
rotate the cylinder, you decide not to fire when you decocked the pistol. This
round is still live and will rotate back towards the firing position with each cock-
ing. Do not forget about this round.
If you fired rounds prior to the decocking operation and commence firing
again, the hammer will fall on one or more empty cylinders and still will fall on a
live round. Be careful and attentive to this live round.
Always keep pistol pointed in a safe direction.
IMPORTANT
Your revolver is as safe as we know how to make it. It has a hammer
block safety mechanism which is effective and reliable, but you must
engage it. It won’t work by itself. You must put the hammer in the safety
notch position to be
sure your revolver is safe.
The old-timers used to say that the safest way to carry a single-action
revolver was to load only live chambers and let the hammer rest, in the
safety position , on the empty sixth chamber. That’s good advice even
today. It still takes proper care in handling and use by you, its owner.