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2 Le iustrazioni e descrizioni di questo opuscoo si intendono fornite a titoo indicativo. La Casa si riserva pertanto i diritto di apportare ai suoi modei, in quasiasi momento e senza preavviso, quee modifiche che ritenesse utii per migiorari o per quasiasi esigenza di carattere costruttivo e commerciae. The iustrations and descriptions given in this brochure are intended as a genera guide ony, and must not be taken as binding. The Company, therefore, reserves the right to make, at any moment and without notice, any changes it thinks necessary to improve its modes or to meet any requirements of manufacturing or commercia nature. Les iustrations et es descriptions contenues dans ce prospectus ne sont données qu à titre indicatif. La Maison se réserve e droit de modifier, à tout moment et sans préavis, ses modèes pour es améiorer ou pour n importe quee exigence de caractère constructif et commercia. Beretta Pubbicità - C /2000 Printed in Itay batan - Gardone V.T. 3

3 ENGLISH Iustrations on pages 3, 10 and 22 CONTENTS NOTICE: The Manufacturer and/or its Loca Officia Distributors assume no responsibiity for product mafunction or for physica injury or property damage resuting in whoe or in part from crimina or negigent use of the product, improper or careess handing, unauthorized modifications, use of defective, improper, hand-oaded, reoaded or remanufactured ammunition, customer abuse or negect of the product, or other infuences beyond manufacturer s direct and immediate contro. CAUTION: Aways ensure that the safety is fuy engaged unti ready to fire. A safety is fuy engaged ony when the safety can move no further into the safe position. A safety which is not fuy engaged wi not prevent weapon discharge. WARNING: ALL FIREARMS HAVE LETHAL POTENTIAL. READ THE BASIC SAFETY RULES CAREFULLY AND UNDERSTAND THEM FULLY BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO USE THIS FIREARM. In addition to the Basic Safety Rues, there are other Safety Rues pertaining to the oading, unoading, disassemby, assemby and use of this firearm ocated throughout this manua. WARNING: READ THE ENTIRE MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS FIREARM. MAKE SURE THAT ANY PERSON USING OR HAVING ACCESS TO THIS FIREARM READS AND UNDERSTANDS ALL OF THIS MANUAL PRIOR TO USE OR ACCESS. Page BASIC SAFETY RULES 6 DESCRIPTION 11 CHARACTERISTICS TECHNICAL DATA AND FEATURES GENERAL OPERATION LOADING AND FIRING 14 LOADING THE MAGAZINE LOADING THE PISTOL AND THE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER FIRING UNLOADING THE PISTOL AND THE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER UNLOADING THE MAGAZINE MAINTENANCE 17 FIELD STRIPPING CLEANING AND LUBRICATION ASSEMBLY HOW TO REVERSE THE MAGAZINE RELEASE BUTTON 19 MALFUNCTIONS, CAUSES AND REMEDIES 20 AMMUNITION

4 BASIC SAFETY RULES 1. NEVER POINT A FIREARM AT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT SAFE TO SHOOT. 1. Never et the muzze of a firearm point at any part of your body or at another person. This is especiay important when oading or unoading the firearm. When you are shooting at a target, know what is behind it. Some buets can trave over a mie. If you miss your target or if the buet penetrates the target, it is your responsibiity to ensure that the shot does not cause unintended injury or damage. 3. STORE YOUR FIREARM SO THAT CHILDREN CANNOT GAIN ACCESS TO IT. 3. It is your responsibiity to insure that chidren under the age of 18 or other unauthorized persons do not gain access to your firearm. To reduce the risk of accidents invoving chidren, unoad your firearm, ock it and store the ammunition in a separate ocked ocation. Pease note that devices intended to prevent accidents - for exampe, cabe ocks, chamber pugs, etc, - may not prevent use or misuse of your firearm by a determined person. Stee gun safes may be more appropriate to reduce the ikeihood of intentiona misuse of a firearm by an unauthorized chid or person. 2. ALWAYS TREAT A FIREARM AS IF IT WERE LOADED. 2. Never assume that a firearm is unoaded. The ony certain way to ensure that a firearm is empty is to open the chamber and visuay examine the inside to see if a round is present. Removing the magazine wi not guarantee that a pisto is unoaded or cannot fire. Shotguns and rifes can be checked by cycing or removing a rounds and by then opening the chamber so that a visua inspection of the chamber for any remaining rounds can be made. 4. NEVER SHOOT AT WATER OR AT A HARD SURFACE. 4. Shooting at the surface of water or at a rock or other hard surface increases the chance of ricochets or fragmentation of the buet or shot, which can resut in the projectie striking an unintended or periphera target. 5. KNOW THE SAFETY FEATURES OF THE FIREARM YOU ARE USING, BUT REMEMBER: SAFETY DEVICES ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR SAFE HANDLING PROCEDURES. 5. Never rey soey on a safety device to prevent an accident. It is imperative that you know and use the safety features of the particuar firearm you are handing, but accidents can best be prevented by foowing the safe handing procedures described in these safety rues and esewhere in the product manua. To further famiiarize yoursef with the proper use of this or other firearms, take a Firearms Safety Course taught by an expert in firearms use and safety procedures. 6 7

5 6. PROPERLY MAINTAIN YOUR FIREARM. 6. Store and carry your firearm so that dirt or int does not accumuate in the working parts. Cean and oi your firearm, foowing the instructions provided in this manua, after each use to prevent corrosion, damage to the barre or accumuation of impurities which can prevent use of the gun in an emergency. Aways check the barre prior to oading to ensure that it is cean and free from obstructions. Firing against an obstruction can rupture the barre and injure yoursef or others nearby. In case you hear an unusua noise when shooting, stop firing immediatey, ingage the manua safety and unoad the firearm. Make sure the chamber is free from any obstruction or possibe buet bocked inside the barre due to defective or improper ammunition. 7. USE PROPER AMMUNITION. 7. Ony use factory-oaded, new ammunition manufactured to industry specifications: CIP (Europe and esewhere), SAAMI (U.S.A.). Be certain that each round you use is in the proper caiber or gauge and type for the particuar firearm. The caiber or gauge of the firearm is ceary marked on the barres of shotguns and on the side or barre of pistos. The use of reoaded or remanufactured ammunition can increase the ikeihood of excessive cartridge pressures, casehead ruptures or other defects in the ammunition which can cause damage to your firearm and injury to yoursef or others nearby. 8. ALWAYS WEAR PROTECTIVE GLASSES AND EARPLUGS WHEN SHOOTING. 8. The chance that gas, gunpowder or meta fragments wi bow back and injure a shooter who is firing a gun is rare, but the injury that can be sustained in such circumstances is severe, incuding the possibe oss of eyesight. A shooter must aways wear impact resistant shooting gasses when firing any firearm. Earpugs hep reduce the chance of hearing damage from shooting. 10. AVOID ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES OR JUDGMENT OR REFLEX IMPAIRING MEDICATION WHEN SHOOTING. 10. Do not drink and shoot. If you take medication that can impair motor reactions or judgment, do not hande a firearm whie you are under the infuence of the medication. 11. NEVER TRANSPORT A LOADED FIREARM. 11. Unoad a firearm before putting it in a vehice. Hunters and target shooters shoud oad their firearm ony at their destination. If you carry a firearm for sef-protection, eaving the chamber unoaded can reduce the chance of accidenta discharge. 12. LEAD WARNING. 11. Discharging firearms in poory ventiated areas, ceaning firearms, or handing ammunition may resut in exposure to ead and other substances known to cause birth defects, reproductive harm, and other serious physica injury. Have adequate ventiation at a times. Wash hands thoroughy after exposure. 9. NEVER CLIMB A TREE, FENCE OR OBSTRUCTION WITH A LOADED FIREARM. 9. Open and empty the chamber of your firearm before cimbing or descending a tree or before cimbing a fence or jumping over a ditch or obstruction. Never pu or push a oaded firearm toward yoursef or another person. 8 9

6 DESCRIPTION Beretta Cougar semi-automatic pistos, avaiabe in many high-power caibers, use a briiant adaptation of a proven ocked-breech system with rotating barre. The compact dimensions make the Beretta Cougar pistos easy to concea and operate. CHARACTERISTICS A. THE LOCKING SYSTEM Fig. 2 A. The Cougar series pistos empoy a short recoi ocked-breech system, simpe and practica, based on the secure ock of the side to the barre. The barre ocking and unocking rotation is caused by its axia movement through the doube cam acting on the centra bock tooth. A. This ocking system has required a cosed-side design thus breaking the tradition of the open-side design going back to the eary Beretta semi-automatic pistos. B. THE DOUBLE ACTION Fig. 1 B. The doube action offers the advantages of the revover. In the rare instance of misfire due to a fauty primer, it is sufficient to pu the trigger again to repeat the percussion on the cartridge and fire the round. C. THE GREAT FIRE CAPACITY Fig. 3 B. The staggered magazine, of the same ength as a traditiona singe ine magazine, aows greater fire capacity (see technica data on page 33). D. THE COMPLETE SAFETY SYSTEM Fig. 1 D. D1. Automatic firing pin safety: when the trigger is not pued competey back, a bocking device secures the firing pin and prevents it from moving forward, even if the weapon shoud fa from a height and strike the ground muzze-down. D. D2. Manua safety-decocking ever (F Modes): aows safe hammer owering over a chambered round. The safety rotation interrupts and shieds the firing pin unit from hammer strike. With the safety ON, the inkage between trigger and sear is disconnected. (It is not present on D modes, doube action ony. The G Modes feature a manua decocking ever ony). E. THE GREAT SIMPLICITY OF FIELD STRIPPING Fig. 1, 2 E. The disassemby device is designed to aow an extremey quick and simpe fied stripping of the pisto and yet avoid casua or invountary disassemby. F. THE FUNCTIONAL AND ANATOMICAL FEATURES Fig. 1, 2 F. F1. Side catch: when the ast round has been fired, the side ocks open, 10 11

7 signaing that the magazine is empty. F. F2. Ambidextrous safety decocking ever: (not present on D modes, doube action ony). Aows easier and quicker handing by eft and right-handed shooters. F. F3. Reversibe magazine reease button: it can easiy be assembed on the right side of the pisto for eft handed shooters. F. F4. Specia sights: front and rear sights are designed for swift target acquisition. To aid sighting under ow ight conditions, the sights are equipped with white dots. Both sights are removabe and repaceabe. F. F5. Compact size: the Cougar dimensions, particuary reduced in ength, make these high-power pistos easy to concea and operate. F. F6. Anatomica hande: the newy designed ergonomicay contoured hande better accomodates and protects the hand, faciitating, at the same time, the correct grip of the pisto aso under conditions of rapid, fire. The front and back straps of the grip guarantee a firm hod even with wet hands. F. F7. Checkered grips: they ensure a better hod and give to the pisto a touch of eegance. Wanut checkered grips are avaiabe on request. G. SPECIAL MODELS Fig. 4, 5 G. G MODELS G. The G modes feature a manua decocking ever ony instead of the safetydecocking ever of the Cougar F. When the decocking ever is reeased, it automaticay returns to the ready to fire position. There is no manua safety (Fig. 4). G. D MODELS G. The D modes are doube action ony pistos: the hammer aways foows the side forward to come to rest in the doube action position (the hammer never stays cocked). The manua safety and the decocking evers have been eiminated. The hammer spur has been removed, and is fush with the rear of the side (Fig. 5). G. L MODELS G. These pistos are avaiabe in F version ony and they feature a more compact design, a beveed and ighter side, a shorter grip and a fire capacity of 14* rounds (13+1). G. MINI COUGAR MODELS G. Shorter in the grip and ighter, the Mini Cougar pisto is even more compact than the fu size Cougar. Yet it has a of the same performance and safety features of the standard version. G. INOX VERSIONS G. Some modes are avaiabe in the Inox version featuring the foowing parts made in stainess stee: The barre, the side (incuding the extractor and the safety evers if present), the trigger, the side stop ever, the disassemby atch (button incuded), the magazine reease assemby and the trigger bar. 12 G. The ight aoy frame and the other auminum aoy parts are sand-basted and anodized grey. The sights, the hammer, the grip screws and the magazine bottom are matt TECHNICAL DATA COUGAR MODELS (**) L Caiber 9mmx19 9mmx SIG.40 S&W.45 ACP 9mmx21 9mmx21 Overa Length (mm/in) 180/7 (179/7) 180/7 180/7 180/7 (179/7) 183/7.2 (182/7.1) Barre Length (mm/in) 92/3.6 (92/3.6) 92/3.6 92/3.6 92/3.6 (92/3.6) 94/3.7 (94/3.7) Sight Radius (mm/in) 132/5.2 (132/5.2) 131/ / /5.2 (132/5.2) 135/5.3 (135/5.3) Overa Height (mm/in) 140/5.5 (115/4.5) 126/5 140/ /5.5 (115/4.5) 142/5.6 (122/4.8) Overa Width (mm/in) 38/1.5 (38/1.5) 32/1.2 38/1.5 38/1.5 (38/1.5) 38/1.5 (38/1.5) Magazine Capacity (rounds) ( * ) 15* (10/15*) 13* 11* 11* (8/11*) 8 (6/8) Weight Unoaded (gr./oz-approx.) 925/32.6 (785/27.6) 800/ / /32.4 (780/27.5) 908/32 (865/30.5) (**) The data between brackets refer to the Mini Cougar modes. FEATURES Operation: Semi-automatic, short recoi of barre. Locking System: Locked breech with rotating barre. Action: Doube and singe action. D modes: doube action ony. Hammer: Exposed. D modes: without spur. Rifing, Pitch: R.H., 6 grooves. Pitch: Caiber 9mmx19 (9 mm Parabeum) and 9mmx21IMI: 250 mm (9.8 in.). Caiber.40 S&W: 400 mm (15.7 in.). Caiber.45 ACP and.357 SIG: 406 mm (16 in.). Sights: Front and rear sights dovetaied to side. Interchangeabe 3 white dot system. Safeties: A modes: Automatic firing pin bocking device. F modes: manua safety-decocking ever with rotating firing pin striker, trigger bar disconnect. G modes: decocking ever, rotating firing pin striker without manua safety. D modes: without manua safety. Frame: Light aoy sand-basted and anodized back. Inox modes: sand-basted and anodized grey. Side: Stee, sand-basted, phosphatized and Bruniton coated. Inox modes: stainess stee, sand-basted. Barre: Stee, sand-basted and bued. Chrome pated bore and chamber. Inox modes: stainess stee, sand-basted. Grips: Pastic, checkered. On request, checkered wanut grips. Inox modes: checkered wanut grips. Specia Features: A modes are equipped with spare magazine, ceaning rod, ABS case. (*) Commercia Cougar pistos sod in the US market are suppied with 10-round magazines in accordance with US Federa Guideines for Commercia Sae. 13

8 GENERAL OPERATION Beretta Cougar semi-automatic pistos use a short recoi ocked-breech system with rotating barre. When the pisto is fired, the recoi energy pushes the side-barre assemby backward. After a short run of barre-side assemby, the barre is revoved by cam action against the centra bock tooth. When the barre has turned about 30 degrees, the barre ocking ugs cear the ocking recesses on the side. The barre then stops against the centra bock whie the side continues its rearward trave extracting and ejecting the fired cartridge case through the ejection port, rotating the hammer and activating the recoi spring. Pushed by the recoi spring, the side then moves forward, feeding the next cartridge from the magazine into the chamber, causing the barre rotation by cam action against the centra bock tooth and barre-to-side ocking. The side is designed to stay open after the ast cartridge has been fired and the spent she casing has been ejected. CAUTION: Some modes are equipped with hammer haf-cock position. It is not recommended to carry the hammer haf-cocked. This device is intended to prevent accidenta discharge shoud the hammer drop. NOTICE: The figure numbers noted beow refer to the photographs on pages 3 and 62. LOADING AND FIRING WARNING: Before oading the firearm, practice the foowing oading procedures without the use of ammunition. Never hande a oaded firearm unti you are fuy famiiar with the oading procedures. Aways point the firearm in a safe direction. (See points 1, 2 and 4 of the BASIC SAFETY RULES). WARNING: Aways keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire. Make sure the pisto is not aready oaded by inspecting the cartridge chamber as foows: remove the magazine from the pisto by depressing the magazine reease button (Fig. 7). Keeping your finger away from the trigger, grasp the side serrations with thumb and index fingers and retract the side 2 centimeters (approx. one inch) to verify that the chamber is empty (Fig. 6). Lower the hammer by engaging the manua safety-decocking ever D2 (if present) (Fig. 9). LOADING THE MAGAZINE To oad the magazine remove it from the pisto by depressing the magazine reease button (Fig. 7). Hod the magazine in the eft hand. With your right hand pace a cartridge on the foower in front of the ips, press down and side the cartridge competey back under the ips (Fig. 8). Repeat unti the magazine is fuy oaded. Hoes on the back or on sides of the magazine aow for visua counting of cartridges (Fig. 3). Do not try to force more than the maximum indicated rounds into the magazine. LOADING THE PISTOL AND THE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER WARNING: Aways keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire. Engage the manua safety D2, if present, by pushing the safety-decocking ever down a the way, so as to cover the red warning dot (Fig. 9). This safety ever rotation separates the firing pin from the hammer, owers the hammer if cocked and interrupts the connection between trigger and sear. NOTICE: Pistos mode G and D have no manua safety. The G modes have a decocking ever ony which, when reeased, returns to the ready to fire position. Push the oaded magazine into the pisto grip competey to insure catch engagement. Grasping the side serrations with thumb and index finger, fuy retract and reease the side (Fig. 10) to oad the chamber. WARNING: THE PISTOL IS NOW CHAMBER LOADED, DECOCKED ("G" modes are cocked), MANUAL SAFETY ENGAGED (if present). Aways keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire. WARNING: MODELS "G" ARE NOW CHAMBER LOADED AND COCKED. Lower the hammer rotating the decocking ever downward. NOTICE: The manufacturer assumes no responsibiity for any injury or property damage resuting from improper or careess handing, intentiona or accidenta discharge of the firearm. NOTICE: A Beretta Cougar pistos described in this manua are equipped with an Automatic Safety D1, which prevents firing pin inertia breech protrusion. This safety is overcome ony by trigger pu (Fig. 11). To repace the round which has been chambered from the magazine: Remove the magazine from the pisto by depressing the magazine reease button. Insert one more cartridge into the magazine. Push the oaded magazine into the pisto grip competey to insure catch engagement

9 WARNING: REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE HANDLING A LOADED FIREARM, WITH A LIVE ROUND IN THE CHAMBER. Keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire. FIRING WARNING: ALWAYS WEAR PROTECTIVE GLASSES AND EARPLUGS WHEN SHOOTING (See point 8 of the BASIC SAFET RULES). WHEN READY TO FIRE: Reease the manua safety (if present) by simpy rotating the manua safety ever with a fuy upward thumb pressure. The red warning dot can be seen when the manua safety is disengaged. Aim the pisto and aign front and rear sight on target. Fire by squeezing the trigger. NOTICE: If the hammer is uncocked, the pu on the trigger wi first cock the hammer and then reease it. This firing mode is caed DOUBLE ACTION. The discharge generates the semi-automatic working cyce as described in the GENERAL OPERATION chapter. WARNING: THE PISTOL IS NOW CHAMBER LOADED, COCKED AND READY TO FIRE AGAIN. Keep you finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire. Squeeze the trigger to fire again. NOTICE: If the hammer is cocked, the pu on the trigger simpy reeases the hammer. This firing mode is caed SINGLE ACTION. After the first shot the pisto wi aways fire in the singe action mode. If the hammer is fuy-owered, the safety OFF, and you want to fire the first shot by the singe action mode, manuay retract the hammer to its fuy-cocked position. WHEN READY TO FIRE, squeeze the trigger. NOTICE: Pistos mode D are designed to fire in the DOUBLE ACTION mode ony. The hammer never stays cocked thus foowing the side forward to come to rest in the uncocked position. When the ast round has been fired the side remains open (Fig. 12). To fire again remove the empty magazine and insert a oaded one. Press the side catch, to cose the side and to oad the chamber (Fig. 13). WARNING: THE PISTOL IS NOW CHAMBER LOADED, COCKED AND READY TO FIRE AGAIN. Keep your finger away from the trigger whenever you do not intend to fire, engage the manua safety (if present) and/or ower the hammer rotating downward the decocking ever. UNLOADING THE PISTOL AND THE CARTRIDGE CHAMBER WARNING: Keep your finger away from the trigger. Engage the manua safety (fuy down; red dot covered), if present and/or ower the hammer, if cocked, by rotating the decocking ever downwards. Depress the magazine reease button to remove the magazine from the pisto. Grasping the side serrations with thumb and index finger, fuy retract the side to remove the chambered cartridge. WHEN SURE THAT THE CHAMBER IS EMPTY AND THE CARTRIDGE HAS BEEN EJECTED, reease the side. Mode G pistos ony: ower the hammer rotating the decocking ever downward. UNLOADING THE MAGAZINE To unoad the magazine, grasp it with one hand around the magazine box, bottom down and front end forward. With the tip of the thumb firmy press down on the cartridge rim and push towards the front of magazine box. As the cartridge moves forward, tip it sighty upward with the index finger. Repeat unti the magazine is unoaded. MAINTENANCE Every time the pisto is fired or at east once a month, ceaning and ubricating is recommended. FIELD STRIPPING WARNING: Make sure the pisto is unoaded. If not, unoad it foowing the UNLOADING THE PISTOL procedure. NOTICE: It is advisabe to carry out the fied stripping and the assemby operations over a tabe to catch components shoud they drop. Remove magazine by depressing magazine reease button. Hod pisto in the right hand; with eft forefinger press disassemby atch reease button and with eft thumb rotate disassemby atch 45 downward (Fig. 14). Pu the side-barre assemby with centra bock, recoi spring and spring guide forwards. (Fig. 15). In case the hammer is in the haf-cocked position, cock it in order to faciitate forward trave of side barre assemby. Pu out the recoi spring with guide from the centra bock (Fig. 16). Take out the barre from side, rotating the barre itsef (counter cockwise ooking at it from the rear) (Fig. 17). CAUTION: No further disassemby is recommended uness done by a competent gumsmith

10 CLEANING AND LUBRICATION WARNING: Excess oi and grease obstructing the bore even partiay are very dangerous when firing and may cause damages to the pisto and serious injury to the shooter and bystanders. Never spray or appy oi to the cartridges. Use ubricants propery: you are responsibe for the proper care and maintenance of your firearm. MAGAZINE Make sure the magazine is thoroughy cean and the foower sides easiy downward if pressed. If necessary, ighty oi (using Beretta or a good grade gun oi) the interna and externa was of the magazine box. If the pisto is carried with the magazine oaded, it is important to periodicay unoad a magazines for cartridge inspection. BARREL Spray the suppied brush with a good grade gun oi. Insert the brush into the barre from the chamber and scrub the chamber and bore thoroughy. Dry chamber and bore by pushing a cotton patch through the chamber and bore with the brush. Keep changing the patch unti it emerges cean. Cean the barre doube cam and ocking ugs with a coth soaked in gun oi. If necessary, use the suppied brush. Lighty oi the inside and outside of the barre, passing through it a cean cotton patch soaked in gun oi. Lighty oi the barre doube cam and ocking ugs. CENTRAL BLOCK Cean the centra bock, with a coth soaked in gun oi, paying specia attention to the bock tooth and to the recoi spring and guide hoe. Dry the parts carefuy with a cean coth. Lighty oi the centra bock. RECOIL SPRING AND SPRING GUIDE Lighty oi the recoi spring and spring guide. After ong use it coud be necessary to first cean these parts using the suppied brush and a good grade gun oi. SLIDE Cean the side with a coth soaked in gun oi, paying specia attention to the breech face and extractor, to the side rais and ocking recesses. If necessary, use the suppied brush. Dry the parts carefuy with a cean coth. Lighty oi the side with gun oi. FRAME With oi soaked rag, cean a areas covered by gun powder residues and fied dirt. Pay specia attention to hammer area, ejector, centra bock seat and side rais. If necessary, use the suppied brush. Dry the parts carefuy and ighty ubricate side rais and the moving parts. CAUTION: Do not appy excess oi: accumuation of oi attracts dirt which can pug the barre and interfere with the functioning and reiabiity of the pisto. ASSEMBLY Assembe foowing the Fied Stripping procedure in reverse order. It is advisabe to pay attention to the foowing points: The centra bock shoud be assembed with its thinner barre bearing surface towards the muzze (the marked arrow pointing towards the muzze). The recoi spring guide and the spring shoud be assembed with its fat head towards the muzze and inserted in the apposite hoe of the side. The foowing assemby procedure is suggested: Keeping the side in the eft hand, sights down, using the right hand insert the barre, doube cam upward, into the side titing it sighty at first (Fig. 18). Push the barre against the side head rotating it axiay in a way that the ocking ugs odge in the recesses of the side (Fig. 19). Pace the centra bock (with recoi spring guide and spring) on the barre so that the tooth engages the doube cam of the barre and keep the centra bock pushed rearward with the thumb of the eft hand (Fig. 20). Side the spring guide towards the muzze to engage its head in the seat of the side (Fig. 21). Keeping the centra bock and the recoi spring with guide in position with the thumb of the eft hand, rotate axiay 180 the group and reinsert the frame guides in the side rais (Fig. 22). Push the side about 5 mm beyond the rear end of frame forcing the recoi spring to compress (Fig. 23) and with the thumb of the eft hand rotate 45 counter cockwise the disassemby atch unti it cicks into the ocked position (Fig. 24). WARNING: Do not store firearms in paces which are or coud be accessibe by chidren or other persons whose unfamiiarity with firearms might ead to unsafe use. Aways store your firearms securey and unoaded, separate from ammunition. (See point 3 of the BASIC SAFETY RULES). HOW TO REVERSE THE MAGAZINE RELEASE BUTTON FOR LEFT-HANDED SHOOTERS WARNING: Make sure the pisto is unoaded. If not, unoad it foowing the «UNLOADING THE PISTOL» procedure. NOTICE: These operations shoud be carried out by a gunsmith. For Cougar pistos with rounded magazine reease button: With a suitabe screwdriver unscrew and remove the grips. Press the back (fat side) of the magazine reease button down and away. The magazine reease assemby wi then drop out

11 Reverse the magazine reease assemby and insert the button (grooved side) in position titing it sighty. Hoding the button (grooved side) of the magazine reease assemby firmy in pace, press its fat side and push it unti it cicks into pace. The operation is done correcty when the magazine sides easiy into its housing. Repace grips with screws. For Cougar pistos with ova magazine reease button: With a suitabe screwdriver unscrew and remove the grips. Be carefu not to oose the grip ock washers. With a suitabe pin driver and hammer push the retaining spring pin out of magazine reease button. Be carefu not to oose the pin itsef and the spring which is under ight tension. Take the magazine reease atch out of the frame, reverse and reassembe it in pace. Reassembe the magazine reease button spring and reassembe the button on the magazine atch shank so that the spring enters in the button hoe. Sighty push the magazine reease button unti its hoe is centered on the magazine atch shank hoe and repace the button spring pin using a suitabe pin guide and a hammer. Repace grip with screws. MALFUNCTIONS, CAUSES AND REMEDIES MALFUNCTION PROBABLE CAUSE REMEDY Mis-introduction of a Warped or defective Inspect and repace cartridge into the cartridge cartridge chamber Mis-fire Defective cartridge Keep pisto muzze in a safe direction and pu the trigger once more or repace cartridge Mis-extraction or Dirty cartridge chamber Cean and ubricate defective extraction cartridge chamber Defective or dirty Repace or cean ammunition cartridges Dirt under the extractor Cean the extractor housing NOTICE: Whoesaers, deaers or gunsmiths (uness they are a Repair Station authorized by the Manufacturer and/or by its Loca Officia Distributors) are not authorized to make any Warranty repair or adjustment on behaf of the Manufacturer. AMMUNITION Using good quaity ammunition combined with preventive maintenance wi make the pisto perform fawessy through years of service. To prevent mafunctioning aways visuay inspect each cartridge for externa damage before oading. The pisto is designed and tested to withstand continued shooting with a brands and types of commercia ammunition manufactured to standard (C.I.P., S.A.A.M.I., etc.) specifications. We do not recommend extended use of +P, +P+ or submachine gun ammunition because the chamber pressure may reach or exceed proof oad pressure decreasing the major components service ife expectancy. The warranty does not cover the use of reoaded and/or hand oaded ammunition. CAUTION: - Make sure the buets are of the right caiber size according to internationa specifications (C.I.P., S.A.A.M.I., etc.). - Lead buets have a tendency to cause bore eading which may dramaticay increase the discharge pressure. - Make sure to remove a chamber and bore ead accumuation after each shooting. - DO NOT ever shoot cartridges with jacketed buets through a barre previousy fired with ead buets before the bore is thoroughy deeaded. WARNING: DRY FIRING If you want to practice shooting your pisto without using ive ammunition (caed dry firing ), insert an appropriate snap cap into the chamber to cushion the fa of the firing pin and reduce the chance of firing pin breakage. Snap cap cartridges with spring oaded primers are idea. DUMMY cartridges with empty primer pockets are good for oading/unoading practice but DO NOT protect the firing pin during dry firing. CAUTION: No one shoud attempt to make recommended repairs without proper knowedge or training

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