Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns Another Good Reason Never To Carry With Empty Chamber

Yeah, ruffed...

I do know there are a LOT of guys chasing the same nickel in a very short season.

I hunt with a hot chamber. unless crossing a stream,fence,crawling on all fours,a situation that you're not in control of your firearm, Then I unload my firearm.

Ruffed Grouse

roughed Ruffed Grouse

Blue of course

Ruffed Grouse are the kind that fly away when you come to kill them.

To all those guys who are afraid to walk around with a loaded gun I have the following advice: Spit out your gum!

I do not believe I use the word afraid anywhere.

So, it your opinion should a hunter who has daily bouts of almost blinding vertigo and who hunts in heavy brush country with vines and loose rock everywhere use a safety when he hunts with a live round chambered?

Both barrels were loaded.

Dumbest arse comparison I've ever seen. Chambering a round while hunting and carrying a chambered handgun for defense; the two are like night & day; they two are opposite sides of different books. And yet the hard headed of this forum see it as an issue to argue about...brilliant.

Scot F, Betcha she didn't have a safety or it was not on.

Remington 700. She took off the safety and it shot her son after going through her horse trailer. Lots of blame all around but a cold chamber would have just caused a "OH CRAP" moment not a dead child. Proper muzzle control would have been a life saver too.

When I first read Steelhead's thoughts I thought he was crazy but I sat down and thought about it and realized his points are valid. I have taken a shot when I did not have time to chamber a round. I changed the way hunt.

If she'd been holding a broom............

Says the gal that's askeered of 30 round magazines.

I have a 700 and I have replaced trigger but I. Will never trust it. Cold chamber may cost me a deer but I will sleep well.

Someone like you that askeered of shooting themselves or someone else with a rifle while walking around in the woods, certainly shouldn't be trusted with a rifle with a 30 round magazine. Give a moron like you a 30 round magazine and you might just be able to hit someone. It's best that a klutz like you be limited to just 5 rounds.

You are proving to be full of crap.

Full of crap?? Why? Steelie by his own admission doesn't trust himself to walk around with a loaded hunting rifle because he perceives himself to be a danger to himself and others. Why should someone like that be trusted with a semi-auto with a 30 round capacity? He certainly shouldn't be trusted to have a handgun (and certainly not one without a manual safety) with a round in the chamber.

Practicing safety such as a cold chamber when moving and hunting then equating that to magazine capacity is idiotic to say the least.