OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Desert Eagle Gas Operated Semi-Automatic Pistol Caliber: 50 A.E., 44 Magnum, 429 DE Magnum, 357 Magnum California Approved: 44 Magnum WARNING! Be sure to read and fully understand all “Important Safety Instructions” shown in red type. Read and fully understand this manual before removing this firearm from its Discharging firearms in poorly ventilated areas, cleaning package. firearms, or handling ammunition may result in exposure to lead or other substances known to the State of California THIS PISTOL WILL FIRE IF THE TRIGGER IS PULLED! to cause birth defects, reproductive harm, and other serious physical injury. Have adequate ventilation at all The pistol should be considered loaded and ready to fire until times. Wash hands thoroughly after exposure. the magazine has been removed and the chamber has been checked to verify that the firearm is unloaded. DO NOT USE LEAD BULLETS. 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Specifications ............................12 after you verify that a gun is unloaded, you should continue handling it as you would a loaded gun, and 7. Operating Principles .......................13 make sure that others around you do the same. 8. Operating Instructions .....................13 Never transport a loaded firearm. 9. Disassembly and Assembly .................18 WARNING! Do not handle firearms when 10. Additional Assembly .................... 20 you are tired, cold, or impaired physically 11. Care and Cleaning ........................23 or mentally in anyway. 12. Troubleshooting .........................24 • Point the muzzle in a safe direction at all times—a 13. Notes on Reliability .......................26 “safe direction” is one in which, if the firearm were to discharge, there would be no injury to anyone. 14. Warranty and Liability Exclusions ...........26 Never point a firearm, whether you think it is loaded 15. Limited One-Year Warranty. .27 or unloaded directly at another person or at yourself. Consider that a bullet can ricochet off pavement, 16. Contact and Shipping .....................29 floors, walls, rocks, the ground, water, ice or almost 17. Recommended Ammunition ...............29 any other object it strikes. Also, bullets can penetrate walls, ceilings, floors, doors, windows, and many other materials to kill or injure someone on the opposite side. Important Safety Information Important Safety Information CAUTION: Failure to observe safety instructions in this CAUTION: Your safety and safety of your family and manual can result in property damage, personal injury others depends on your safe and mature adoption, or death. development and consistent employment of SAFE FIREARMS HANDLING PRACTICES. If you are unfamiliar CAUTION: Prior to loading and firing, carefully read and understand this instruction manual. It gives basic advice with firearms, seek further advice through safe handling on the proper handling and functioning of the Desert courses run by your local gun clubs, approved instructor, Eagle pistol. or similar qualified organizations. 2 • To reduce the possibility of an accidental discharge, • Never give a firearm to anyone, or take a firearm do not place your finger on the trigger until the from anyone, unless it is unloaded and the action is firearm is pointed at the target and you intend to open. If someone hands you a firearm with the action fire. When handling, carrying, or holstering the pistol closed ask someone who knows how to handle the make sure that the trigger cannot be snagged by a firearm to open the action and allow you to verify foreign object. This can discharge the pistol. that it is unloaded. If you do not want the firearm to fire, keep your finger • When firing with a two hand grip, keep the thumb of off the trigger. the weak hand on the weak hand side of the firearm, never behind the slide or under the magazine. • Be sure of your target and what is around and • Any firearm, including the Desert Eagle pistol, is beyond it. The bullet fired from your pistol can travel a dangerous device. Firearms should be unloaded over a mile, and has the potential to kill or seriously when not in use. All firearms must be safely stored injure someone at that distance! You must positively to prevent access by unauthorized persons, especially identify your target as something you intend to shoot. children. Fire only with a safe backstop behind your target— something that will stop and contain the projectiles • Load your firearm only when you are on the you fire, even if you miss the target or your bullet target range or in the field and ready to begin using passes through it. it. Unload your firearm as soon as you are finished shooting. Never leave a loaded firearm unattended, • Whenever you handle a firearm that, even not even for a moment. momentarily, has been out of your direct control, start by checking its condition to determine whether • Always store ammunition separately from firearms. or not it is loaded. A firearm in your hands is a lethal • This manual is applicable only to the Desert Eagle weapon which is your responsibility, so you must pistol. All instructions, warnings and precautions may check it yourself. Do not rely on someone else to not be applicable to any other make or model. check it. Do not take someone else’s word for the firearm’s condition. Do not rely on your memory of • For all sales contracts with Desert Eagle, the place having checked the firearm previously, or on your of jurisdiction shall be Delaware, and Delaware State belief that you left it unloaded that last time you Law shall be applicable. used or handled it. Check it again yourself. WARNING: It is possible that a live round may remain Important Safety Information in the chamber when the magazine has been removed or inserted. You must personally verify that the chamber is empty Any round in the chamber will discharge when pulling before field-stripping the firearm for cleaning or any the trigger regardless of whether the magazine is other reason. inserted or removed. Never place your finger on or near the trigger when Therefore, never leave the pistol unattended, even if the operating the slide. magazine is removed and exercise extreme caution after removing the magazine. 3 WARNING! Keep your finger off the trigger distract a shooter from keeping their firearm pointed and outside the trigger guard until you are safely, and from other safe handling practices, which aiming at a proper target and have decided can cause a dangerous situation or an accident when to fire. Failure to do so could cause serious injury or firing. Stay clear, and keep others clear, of the right death. side and behind of the pistol where the hot cartridge cases are ejected. Wear close-fitting clothing, avoiding WARNING! Keep hands, fingers and other clothing with open collars and necklines into which hot body parts from touching the muzzle, cartridge cases can fall. A baseball cap, visor, or other barrel or chamber after firing, they could brimmed hat worn so the brim covers the top of the be burned by hot metal. wearer’s safety glasses can offer additional protection to the wearer’s face and eyes, preventing hot cases WARNING! If dropped or struck, whether from falling into any gap between the top of the safety the safety is “on” or “off” any firearm may glasses and the wearer’s forehead, possibly causing a fire, causing serious injury or death. Keep serious burn to the eye. the pistol chamber unloaded unless actually firing! Keep the safety “on” unless actually firing! When WARNING! Use only appropriate carrying or handling the Desert Eagle pistol, keep it accessories for your Desert Eagle pistol. pointed in a safe direction, and carry it in such a way Be sure holsters, sights and sight mounts, that you can safely control the direction in which the lighting devices, and other accessories are compatible muzzle points even if you should slip, stumble or fall. with the firearm and do not interfere with its safe operation. If in doubt, consult Magnum Research, Inc. WARNING! ANY FIREARM MAY FIRE IF The manufacturer is not responsible for any damage DROPPED. or injury caused by the use of improper accessories. WARNING! Fired cartridge cases ejected WARNING! When shooting, be alert that no from the Desert Eagle pistol are extremely one comes into the line of fire. Check the hot and can cause serious burns. In backstop and target area carefully each addition, the painful burn from a hot cartridge case can time before you begin to fire to make sure it is free of people. WARNING: If the Desert Eagle pistol or any other firearm Important Safety Information is carelessly or improperly handled, the user could cause an unintentional discharge which could result in death, WARNING: If safety lever is engaged, the Desert serious injury, and/or property damage. Eagle pistol has several design features and internal CAUTION: The Desert Eagle pistol is classified by the mechanical safety features designed to prevent Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as a accidental discharges in the event that the pistol is firearm or dangerous weapon.