Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Poll: Do you hunt with a round in the chamber?

Most everyone agreed the most likely scenario for a ND is when chambering/unchambering. Some would prefer to do that multiple times - in and out of the rig, crossing fences, crossing streams, going through thick stuff, walking in slippery areas, up or down steep stuff, on and off the horse, on or off the wheeler, etc.......

Seems far better to cycle once when you want your gun to go bang.

how do you think them actions get slicked up so much and the barrel not worn out? lol

If you're rifle isn't safe to carry loaded you should have it fixed. And if you cannot carry your weapon safely with a chambered cartridge, perhaps you should either practice with it more or pick up a different hobby.

The same could be said about the person uncoordinated enough to get a round in the chamber quick enough to get a shot off. In fact, it would probably fit better with the latter.

I really don't care, I was just throwing gas on the fire. to each his own. Guess I have been lucky and not fallen or what ever for 50 years of hunting.

Scott, that's CLASSIC!

-jeff

Dontcha just hate it when people make sense even if it doesn't agree with your thinking....and you read it anyway?

"Read it all... let the brain stem sort it out!" is my motto!

:-)

If nothing else we've achieved a sort of North Korea/South Korea truce on the issue.. just lobbing the occasional mortar shell at each other...

-jeff

Sometimes.
Sometimes not.
All in the circumstances.

If it's perfectly safe to carry in the steep, thick and slick, why unload in your truck for the ride home...why ever unload?

Gas, mortar, grenade...

Legality would be one reason. In some states it's not legal to drive around hunting with a loaded rifle. How they differentiate between someone who isn't hunting... I don't know.

Another one is that by definition, the rifle is ALWAYS pointed at something you don't want to shoot, when it's in the truck. In the field it's NEVER pointed at something you don't want to shoot, unless as you guys say you go ass over teakettle, or have bad muzzle control.

I could go on.. but why risk provoking a war? When we have this nice... calm... truce! Complete with no-man's-land.

-jeff

Here is a mortar for you....

Jeff Olsen is the biggest [bleep] to hit the Campfire since LHonda.....

:-)

-jeff

laffin

I hunt where most carry hot yet very few if any are hurt each year. I carry cold and don't feel handicapped for doing so.

Do us all a favor, and utilize that edit function more often....

Can't imagine cycling a bolt is any louder than someone who just can't STFU

TFF