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Hi Guys,

I have been unable to find anything like an Owner's Manual online, but this link is better than nothing ...

https://www.bevfitchett.us/firearms-assembly/legend-rxm.html

For instance, here's a cut-and-paste from the very first actual instruction ... with a handy little tidbit of info that I did not know ...

Remove the magazine and check chamber to be sure the gun is empty. Remove the weights. Pull down on the front of the trigger guard (MM), push it to the side until it catches on a lip in the receiver (S). Draw the slide to the rear, lift it up off the receiver, and ease it forward over the barrel.

There's more stuff of a similar nature ... with diagrams ... and an "exploded" parts diagram with all parts labelled and identified.
 
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boomer49 said:
Hi Guys,
I have been unable to find anything like an Owner's Manual online, but this link is better than nothing ...
jbarta.adelphia.net
For instance, here's a cut-and-paste from the very first actual instruction ... with a handy little tidbit of info that I did not know ...
Remove the magazine and check chamber to be sure the gun is empty. Remove the weights. Pull down on the front of the trigger guard (MM), push it to the side until it catches on a lip in the receiver (S). Draw the slide to the rear, lift it up off the receiver, and ease it forward over the barrel.
There's more stuff of a similar nature ... with diagrams ... and an "exploded" parts diagram with all parts labelled and identified.
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It's more elucidating to watch videos on assembly/disassembly of the TT-Olympia/Jaeger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFzPK5ZZ7Rw or even a Canadian one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnWAhRFPEg.
 
boomer49 said:
Hi Guys,

I have been unable to find anything like an Owner's Manual online, but this link is better than nothing ...

jbarta.adelphia.net

For instance, here's a cut-and-paste from the very first actual instruction ... with a handy little tidbit of info that I did not know ...

Remove the magazine and check chamber to be sure the gun is empty. Remove the weights. Pull down on the front of the trigger guard (MM), push it to the side until it catches on a lip in the receiver (S). Draw the slide to the rear, lift it up off the receiver, and ease it forward over the barrel.

There's more stuff of a similar nature ... with diagrams ... and an "exploded" parts diagram with all parts labelled and identified.
Click to expand...
that jbarta.adelphia.net link does not work for me.
 
05RAV said:
It's more elucidating to watch videos on assembly/disassembly of the TT-Olympia/Jaeger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFzPK5ZZ7Rw or even a Canadian one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnWAhRFPEg.
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I had already watched both of those videos a couple of times ... the day after my pistol arrived. Definitely elucidating ...

However, look more closely at what I had posted ... specifically the stuff in boldface italics ...

For instance, here's a cut-and-paste from the very first actual instruction ... with a handy little tidbit of info that I did not know ...

Remove the magazine and check chamber to be sure the gun is empty. Remove the weights. Pull down on the front of the trigger guard (MM), push it to the side until it catches on a lip in the receiver (S). Draw the slide to the rear, lift it up off the receiver, and ease it forward over the barrel.


Neither guy in those videos mentioned that the trigger guard could be secured in the opened/lowered position ... I only learned that when I happened the read about it in that link. (I had already noticed ... when removing the slide, that it was more than a little awkward/challenging for my right hand to hold the pistol and also simultaneously hold-open ... against the spring pressure ... the trigger guard ... while my left hand was removing the slide.)

The specific info in the boldface italics was what mostly prompted me to make the post.
 
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boomer49 said:
Both guys in those videos were unaware that the trigger guard could be secured in the opened/lowered position ...
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They are aware but they can do it quickly with a single hand. Securing the trigger guard this way in the Walther pistols and their variants has been known since the Walther PP was marketed in the late 1920's. It is done in exactly the same way for the Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S and Makarov and perhaps a few more variants based on the original Walther PP design. There are some other videos of TT-Olympia/Jaeger where the presenter does it by securing the trigger guard:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejXcNl2PnP0(at 4:39). It's a very well known method for the Walther PP-type pistols.
 
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05RAV said:
They are aware but they can do it quickly with a single hand. Securing the trigger guard this way in the Walther pistols and their variants has been known since the Walther PP was marketed in the late 1920's. It is done in exactly the same way for the Walther PP, PPK, PPK/S and Makarov and perhaps a few more variants based on the original Walther PP design. There are some other videos of TT-Olympia/Jaeger where the presenter does it by securing the trigger guard:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejXcNl2PnP0(at 4:39). It's a very well known method for the Walther PP-type pistols.
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The video that you link to here (and thank you for that) is just 13 days old and was not available when I received my pistol, but the gentleman here obviously uses the hold-open feature on the trigger guard ... and clearly mentions it as well.
 
boomer49 said:
The video that you link to here (and thank you for that) is just 13 days old and was not available when I received my pistol, but the gentleman here obviously uses the hold-open feature on the trigger guard ... and clearly mentions it as well.
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I don't know about the video, havn't looked, But the trigger guard is not a hold open for the slide, it is a take down to remove the slide.

BTW if you want you can just pull down on the trigger guard and stick side of your finger over the end sticking down , lift slide back and up and than you can move your finger and release the TG. Or just rest it on the frame, I have run into guns where it was tight and would barely swing over enough to hook on the side of the frame. Kind of hard to explain without a picture.
A pencil works as well. I have not played with the Chinese ones, so thinks could be a bit different.
 
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marshall said:
I don't know about the video, havn't looked, But the trigger guard is not a hold open for the slide, it is a take down to remove the slide.

BTW if you want you can just pull down on the trigger guard and stick side of your finger over the end sticking down , lift slide back and up and than you can move your finger and release the TG. Or just rest it on the frame, I have run into guns where it was tight and would barely swing over enough to hook on the side of the frame. Kind of hard to explain without a picture.
A pencil works as well. I have not played with the Chinese ones, so thinks could be a bit different.
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Thanks for chirping-in.

"But the trigger guard is not a hold open for the slide, it is a take down to remove the slide."

Oh yes, I knew that. I never implied that it was a "hold-open" feature for the slide. All I said was that I was pleased to discover that there was a non-visible hold-down notch/detent on the receiver that allowed you to nudge/click/lock/secure the trigger guard into its prescribed/required swivelled/extended downward position ... to enable you to be 100% holding the pistol solidly in all of one hand (probably your entire right hand) and removing the slide with your left hand.

That's all ... no more, no less ...
 
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