Shooting Safety Guide

    Safety is paramount whether you are dealing with air guns or firearms. Here are a few safty tips from the team at O2Guns. Before handling you air gun read your owner’s manual very carefully to insure you fully understand your air gun. We at O2Guns live by a set of safety rules that can easily be remember by 4 words, Treat Never Keep Keep. This should be restated and on your mind each time you handle your air gun. Along with these rules, ear and I protection should always be wore when shooting your air gun. We also recommend that any person under the age of 16 should not handle an air gun unsupervised.

• Treat every air gun as if it were loaded. Every time you handle your air gun you should handle it as if it was ready to fire.
• Never point your air gun at anything you do not intend to shoot, this applies whether your air gun is loaded or not. Once you are prepared to shoot and you have set up a safe area to shoot, be sure that your target does not conceal a person, animal, or object that could be harmed by the pellets. Do not shoot at a target that may allow ricochets or deflections. Also do not shoot at water.
• Keep your finger straight and off the trigger in till you are prepared to fire your air gun. One of the worst habits people have when handling air guns, is they tend to put the finder on the trigger every time they pick up their air gun. Which is one of the main reasons for miss fires occur, miss fires are extremely dangerous for both bystanders and shooters.
• Keep your air gun on safe in till you intend to fire. Any time you handle your air gun and do not have the intent to fire you should keep the safety engaged, even if the air gun is not loaded.
Here are some addition safety rules to keep in mind:
• Never use drugs or alcohol while handling air guns.
• Never reuse pellets.
• Your air guns and pellets/bb’s should be stored in separate areas preferably under lock and key.
• Each and every time you pick up and put down you air gun, always make absolutely sure that there are no pellets/ bb’ in the chamber.
• Do not load the air gun until you are ready to fire. Once the air gun is loaded you should not walk, run, or jump. A loaded air gun should never be carried inside a vehicle.
• Do not tamper with or modify any part of your air gun. If a malfunction should occur,
consult a professional gunsmith. Do not attempt to repair the internal mechanism of
your air gun, since special tools are needed and this could be dangerous.
• Never leave the shooting range or hunting area until you are absolutely confident that your
gun is completely unloaded. And always perform one last check: Cock the gun and fire it in a safe direction.
• ALWAYS KEEP THE AIR GUN AND/OR PELLETS OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN