- 1). Put on your safety glasses.
- 2). Load the rounds, or bullets, into the pistol's magazine. Place each round on top of the preceding round, facing forward, and press down until you hear the bullet snap securely into place within the magazine.
- 3). Place the magazine in the slot, usually inside the pistol's handle, and push the magazine upwards so you hear it click into place. If you are at a shooting range where a range master dictates when shooters shoot, make sure you wait for the range master's instructions before you do this.
- 4). Grasp the upper casing, also known as the slide, of the gun firmly behind the chamber, then pull the slide back until you hear a click. Allow the slide to return to its original position. This process just chambered the first round, or pulled the first round from the magazine up into the firing chamber of the pistol.
- 5). Disengage the pistol's safety, which should have been on until this point. This is usually a switch on the side of the pistol in front of the trigger assembly.
- 6). Grasp the handle securely. When you are ready to aim and fire, place your finger on the trigger.
- 7). Aim the pistol at the target. This will usually involve aligning a metal line at the front of the gun squarely in between two lines at the back of the gun (the two sights), with your target in the middle of the front sight.
- 8). Squeeze the trigger to fire the pistol. In the process of firing one round, the gun will eject the spent casing out of the chamber and take up the next round from the magazine automatically. Repeat the above steps until you are done, or run out of rounds in your magazine.
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