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

This topic is being discussed in a couple of other forums i say each to his on someone wants to hunt with a cold chamber its there business and yes it is safer
I choose to hunt with a round in the chamber i hunt by myself sometimes i take my nephew he does not even carry a gun he is t0 young ill leave it out then
Iam also a hunter safety instructor and i dont teach people to hunt with a empty chamber i teach them how to handle a gun as if it were loaded at all times

I carry a round chambered,bedded mature whitetail bucks don't put up with giving you a chance to chamber a round. I don't know anyone personally that walks around with a empty chamber.What I do not agree with is guys that have a chambered round in their vehicle thats a no go for me..If you practice good muzzle control and have reasonable experience it is very safe.

Mr. jcdixon77;
First off I'd like to send you a tip of the hat for being an instructor, thank you for your time teaching the next generation.

To clarify a point, I don�t teach the students how they should carry either, as it is a topic that all the instructors where I teach can�t agree on!

What I meant to say and should have been more clear on it, was that I teach them the inherent danger of carrying a rifle or shotgun with a chambered round in the �uncocked� condition where it would have the firing pin resting on the primer.

Indeed we try to instill the thought that every firearm they handle should be treated as loaded, which sounds like the same thing you folks do as well.

Thanks again and good luck on your upcoming hunts.

Regards,
Dwayne

Id agree 100 %
Dwayne uncocked chabered round is about as dangerous as a combination as someone could come up with Im glad i read this though I have never mentioned it in class i guess I took it for granted a person would not do. Going to make a note of it .

Good luck on your future hunts as well we don't get started with rifle season here for another 5 or 6 weeks
Clark

I dont know anyone thats hunts with a cold chamber. When I head for the woods I chamber a round always have always will.

Dude, you're killing me. Can't argue with facts.

I have hunted with many claiming perfect muzzle control. I have never seen an example...

i've never seen an animal stop to say, "hey bonehead, ya gonna chamber a round so you can shoot me".....

there's always a round in the chamber, and safety on. i hope if something should happen to tug on the trigger while moving thru the woods it works at that point in time.

toys around the house also always have a round in the pipe.
i have no children, and wife knows they are loaded and knows how to use em......

pity the bump in the night......

new mexico hunting...

I won't sit here and argue the fact that hot is as safe as cold, but if you have ever tracked deer in the sands of NM you would hunt HOT or go home empty handed.I also understand many will reply they would rather go home empty handed.

Hunt by myself and hunt hot.

Lots of talk about what won't work but has never been tried.

Different hunting areas and strategies require different techniques,i'm not saying cold isn't an option most of the time but there are times when it is not.

I hunt with a round in the chamber safety on. I keep and arrow knocked in my bow when I hunt. I carry a round in the chamber when I CCW (always). I carry a gun a work everyday with a round chambered. Why wouldn't you? If you are practicing safe firearms handling its not an issue.

Must be an Alaska problem. I concur.

(I gotta admit though, I don't really understand why a normally hot chamber hunter would unload for vehicle travel if it isn't illegal, yet most seem to think that is a good idea.)

if someone is that worried about there ability to handle a firearm, they have no business touching it at all.

You seem to be genuinely ignorant in your failure to grasp the level of risk which many folks in Alaska face in their daily lives. I dare say it is probably higher in so many ways than

If I was a worried person, Alaska would hardly be a suitable place to live, especially not rural Alaska. That doesn't mean I become cavalier about potentially dangerous things over which I do have some control. In fact, it is precisely those things over which one has control which separates the fools from the rest.

It is not the ability to handle a firearm - or not- which is a concern; it is the fact that one simply has to accept the fact that things will happen which are beyond one's control which can compromise the safe handling of a weapon. And I'm sure Alaska does not have a singular lock on that problem.

One accepts risk with many things. That is never more true in the US than when living in Alaska. But accepting some risk and daring the odds are two different things entirely.

First of all i wasn't talking about Alaska. and yeah there are risks with everything, it just depends on which idiots behind the wheel.

Speaking of which... I hope the cold-chamber risk managers don't speed on their way to hunting camps this year. No mud tires, either. Or jacked-up rigs. Damn things are a hazard to everyone on the road.

And no bacon, either. Take that baby aspirin...

The blacktail buck I cut up today wouldn't have died that evening if I'd been sitting there "cold". At least not for me. One of you real sourdoughs might have pulled it off, though that doesn't put meat in MY freezer....

Muzzle discipline is the key... It's all just a question of degree, anyway. EVERYONE unchambers if things get wierd enough- climbing a cliff or whatever. Or at least they should.

Akin to wearing your seat belt only when it's raining.

I continually read "Muzzle control" and that's the whole ever loving point, one never has 100% control.