Safe ow n e rship is your re s p o n s i b i l i t y. Please thoroughly read and understand this INSTRUCTION MANUA L manual before loading your firearm. Keep firearms and ammunition away from c h i l d ren. Lock unloaded firearms and BOLT ACTION RIMFIRE: ammunition securely in separate locations. CUB Savage Arms recommends the use of good quality high velocity factory manufactured ammunition. IMPORTANT! DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOAD AND SHOOT YOUR RIFLE UNTIL YOU HAVE THOROUGHLY READ THIS INSTRUCTION MANUAL AND ARE FULLY FAMILIAR WITH ITS CONTENTS w w w. s a va g e a r m s. c o m WARNING Children are attracted to and can operate firearms that can cause severe injury or death. Prevent child access by always keeping guns locked away and unloaded when not in use. If you keep a loaded firearm where a child obtains and improperly uses it, you may be fined or sent to prison. ADVERTENCIA A los niños los atraen las armas de fuego y las pueden hacer funcionar. Ellos pueden causarses lesiones graves y la muerte. Evite que los niños tengan acceso a las armas de fuego guardándolas siempre con llave y descargadas cuando no las esté utilizando. Si usted tiene un arma de fuego cargada en un lugar en que un niño tiene acceso a ella y la usa indebidamente, le pueden dar una multa o enviarlo a la carcel. 248 Water Street 100 Springdale Road P.O. Box 1240 Westfield, Massachusetts Lakefield, Ontario USA 01085 CANADA K0L 2H0 701199 (12/02) w w w. s a va g e a r m s. c o m 1 Congratulations on joining the Savage Arms Firearms Safety Depends On You This is your responsibility, and only you can family of sporting firearms owners. With From the time you pick up a firearm, you become control it. reasonable care, your firearm should deliver part of a system over which you have complete years of reliable service and perform to our 2. FIREARMS SHOULD BE UNLOADED WHEN control. You are the only part of the system that NOT ACTUALLY IN USE “legend of accuracy”. can make a gun safe – or unsafe. Firearms should be loaded only when you are For your convenience, this INSTRUCTION You can help meet this responsibility by enrolling MANUALhas been divided into 5 sections: in the field or on the target range or shooting in hunter safety or shooter safety courses, if you area, ready to shoot. When not in use, firearms SECTION 1: 10 Commandments of Shooting Safety have not already done so. You must constantly and ammunition should be secured in a safe SECTION 2: Basic Functions stress safety when handling firearms, especially place, separate from each other. It is your SECTION 3: Rings And Bases For Mounting A to children and non-shooters. Develop safe responsibility to prevent children and Scope shooting habits and remember firearms safety is inexperienced adults from gaining access to SECTION 4: Statement Of Limited Warranty up to you. Make no mistake about it. firearms or ammunition. A loaded gun has no SECTION 5: CUB Series (Parts List and Diagram) place in or near a vehicle or building. ALCOHOL, DRUGS AND GUNS DON’T MIX Whenever you handle a firearm or hand it to 1. ALWAYS KEEP THE MUZZLE POINTED IN A someone, always open the action immediately, SAFE DIRECTION and visually check the chamber, receiver and S E C TI O N 1 This is the most basic safety rule. If everyone magazine to be certain they do not contain any 10 COMMANDMENTS OF SHOOTING handled a firearm so carefully that the muzzle ammunition. Never assume a gun is unloaded – S A F E T Y never pointed at something they didn’t intend to check for yourself! While in the field, there will be shoot, there would be virtually no firearm times when common sense and the basic rules of (The following excerpts are from SAAMI bulletin accidents. It’s as simple as that, and it’s up to you. firearms safety will require you to unload your #081 1MM 7/97 BP. The entire booklet can be gun for maximum safety. When in doubt, unload obtained by calling: NATIONALSHOOTING Never point your gun at anything you do not your gun! SPORTS FOUNDATION, 11 MILE HILL ROAD, intend to shoot. A safe direction means a NEWINGTON, CT 06470; 203-426-4358) direction in which a bullet cannot possibly strike 3. DON’T RELY ON YOUR GUN’S “SAFETY” anyone, taking into account possible ricochets Treat every gun as though it can fire at any time, and the fact that bullets can penetrate walls and regardless of pressure on the trigger. The ceilings. Even when “dry firing” with an unloaded “safety” on any gun is a mechanical device, gun, you should never point the gun at an which, like any such device, can become unintended target. inoperable at the worst possible time. The safety 5. USE CORRECT AMMUNITION WARNING serves as a supplement to proper gun handling but cannot possibly serve as a substitute for You must assume the serious responsibility of DISCHARGING FIREARMS IN POORLY common sense. using only the correct ammunition for your VENTILATED AREAS, CLEANING FIREARMS firearm. Read and heed all warnings, including OR HANDLING AMMUNITION MAY RESULT IN Never touch the trigger on a firearm until you those that appear in the gun’s instruction manual EXPOSURE TO LEAD AND OTHER actually intend to shoot. and on the ammunition boxes. Using improper or S U B S TANCES KNOWN TO CAUSE BIRT H incorrect ammunition can destroy a gun and DEFECTS, REPRODUCTIVE HARM A N D Your firearm is a precision instrument. cause serious personal injury. It only takes one OTHER SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURY. HAVE Regardless of the position of the safety, any cartridge of improper caliber or gauge to wreck A D E Q U ATE VENTILATION AT A L L T I M E S . bump strong enough to actuate the firing your gun, and only a second to check each one WASH HANDS THOROUGHLY A F T E R mechanism of a gun can cause it to fire. The as you load it. Be absolutely certain that the EXPOSURE. only time you can be absolutely certain that a gun ammunition you are using matches the cannot fire is when the action is open and it is specifications that are contained within the gun’s completely empty.You and the safe gun handling 6. IF YOUR GUN FAILS TO FIRE WHEN THE instruction manual and the manufacturer’s TRIGGER IS PULLED, HANDLE WITH CARE! procedures you have learned are your gun’s markings on the firearm barrel. primary safeties. Occasionally, a gun may not fire when the trigger Hand loaded or reloaded ammunition deviating is pulled. If this occurs, keep the muzzle pointed 4. BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET AND WHAT’S from pressures generated by factory loads or BEYOND IT in a safe direction. Keep your face away from the from competent recommendations specified in breech. Then, carefully open the action, unload No one can call a bullet back. Don’t shoot reputable hand loading manuals can be the firearm and dispose of the cartridge in a safe unless you know exactly what your bullet is going dangerous, and can cause severe damage to way. to strike. Be sure that your bullet will not injure guns and serious injury to the shooter. Any time there is a cartridge in the chamber, your anyone or anything beyond your target. You Ammunition that has become very wet or has should keep in mind how far a bullet will travel if it gun is loaded and ready to fire – even if you’ve been submerged in water should be discarded in tried to shoot and it did not go off. It could go off misses your intended target or ricochets in a safe manner. Do not spray oil or solvents on another direction. at any time, so you must always remember ammunition or place ammunition in excessively RULE #1 and WATCH THAT MUZZLE! Be aware that even a .22 short bullet can lubricated firearms. 1 travel over 1 /4 miles and a high velocity Form the habit of examining every cartridge you cartridge, such as a 30-06, can project a bullet put in your gun. Never use damaged, old or more than 3 miles. Shotgun pellets can travel questionable ammunition – the money you save is 500 yards, and shotgun slugs have a range of not worth the risk of possible injury or a ruined gun. over a half-mile. 2 3 7. ALWAYS WEAR EYE AND EAR 9. DON’T ALTER OR MODIFY YOUR GUN, You should always read and refer to the PROTECTION WHEN SHOOTING AND HAVE GUNS SERVICED REGULARLY instruction manual you received with your gun, or if you have misplaced the manual, simply contact All shooters should wear protective shooting Firearms are complicated mechanisms, which the manufacturer for a free copy. glasses and some form of hearing protectors are designed by experts to function properly in while shooting. Exposure to shooting noise can their original condition. Any alteration or change Having a gun in your possession is a damage hearing, and adequate vision protection made to a firearm after manufacture can make full-time job. You cannot guess; you is essential. Wearing eye protection when the gun dangerous and will usually void any cannot forget. You must know how to disassembling and cleaning any gun will also factory warranties. Do not jeopardize your safety use, handle and store your firearm help prevent the possibility of springs, spring or the safety of others by altering the trigger, safely.