Rifle operation

Main Safety Rules

COCKING YOUR AIR RIFLE:
Grasp the rifle by the pistol grip or middle forearm with your dominate hand. Keep your fingers off the trigger and away from the breech. With the barrel pointing in a safe direction, pull the cocking handle back until you feel a click or hear a click sound. At this point the main spring should be compressed and locked (you can tell that you have fully cocked the rifle when the arm is no longer under spring pressure). Keep your fingers away from the trigger and breach at all times when cocking the air rifle. Do not pull past the click sound and never use excessive force when cocking the air rifle. Once the cocking handle is cocked return it forward and lock it in the cocking handle locking mechanism.

LOADING YOUR AIR RIFLE:
A) Make sure that the air rifle is pointed in a safe direction
B) Make sure that the mechanism is not cocked. If the mechanism is cocked, we suggest you a) Make sure the cocking handle is in the forward locked position b) The rifle is pointed in a safe direction c) Fire the air rifle by pulling the trigger. The purpose of this step is to insure that you do have a cocked air rifle and a pellet in the chamber.
With the barrel pointed in a safe direction and the cocking handle in the forward locked position, load the magazine with five pellets (One in each holding position and make sure the pellet skirt is flush with the magazine face. If the pellet is not fully seated, it will be deformed when the handle is cocked and will not be accurate when shot.) Insert the magazine into the breach loading position (left to right with the index teeth up) insert the magazine until it is flush with the right side of the rifle. You may now cock the rifle by unlocking the cocking handle and pulling it toward the rear. As you pull the handle to the rear, the magazine should index to the first position aligning the first pellet with the barrel chamber.

FIRING THE AIR RIFLE:
After completing the above loading step make sure that the rifle is pointed at what you intend to shoot and slowly pull the trigger to the rear. The rifle will discharge and the pellet will be expelled from the barrel. If you wish to fire another pellet unlatch the cocking handle and cock the rifle, see cocking instructions. When you cock the rifle the magazine will index to the next pellet, a pellet will be inserted into the chamber and the piston spring will be compressed. Make sure the rifle is pointed at what you wish to shoot and slowly pull the trigger. Continue this procedure until all five pellets have be fired.

REMOVING THE MAGAZINE FROM THE RIFLE:
With the barrel pointed in a safe direction and the cocking handle in the forward locked position and hands and fingers away from the trigger: A) Press the Loading Rod Latch and move the loading rod to the rear B) Press the Magazine Detent latch with one hand and cover the magazine with the other hand (Warning the magazine is under spring tension and may fly out with force if it is not covered by your hand when the Magazine Detent is pressed) C) Remove the magazine by hand with a right to left hand motion.

UN-COCKING YOUR AIR RIFLE:
IF YOU HAVE COCKED YOUR AIR RIFLE AND LOADED A PELLET we suggest you fire the pellet out of the barrel in a safe direction ... thus we do not suggest that you un-cock this air rifle.
Caution: Unless absolutely necessary do not shoot a spring-piston air rifle without a lead pellet! Firing the air rifle without a pellet allows the piston/ cylinder to slam against the front of the air compression chamber. The resistance of the pellet creates a cushion of air for the piston. Never fire damaged or used pellets.

Caution: Use only factory new lead air rifle pellets. Use only the correct size pellets (.1 77 caliber). Do not use steel shot or darts which may damage the rifled bore and which cause greater re-bound and ricochet.
Note: It is a violation of federal law to ship a loaded weapon.

Main Safety Rules