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

A car with any empty gas tank is ......a stick.

The bird hunting I�ve done is very different from my big game hunting.

First, much of it is done when hunters are spread out in a line with shooting more or less perpendicular to the line, not following one another down a trail. (When we trail to our duck/goose hunting spot we have cold chambers.) Second, much of our bird hunting is done from a stationary position - not much chance of falling when you�re sitting in a blind or laying in a ditch. Third, although I�ve seen an idiot pepper someone else with dove shot 100 yards or so across a watering hole, the pellets didn�t even penetrate the clothing � try that with a rifle. (By the way, I don�t hunt with that particular idiot since that event.)

So, yeah � for me there is quite a bit of difference. And, for what it is worth, I often have an empty chamber when hunting birds. Just takes a split second to chamber one in the 870 and the birds don�t seem to mind.

Doves? quail? I still don't see the difference. When I hunt with friends, we don't follow single file like we are on a contact patrol. No over unders or side by sides? Then... bunnies?
Thanks for the reply...I was wondering if anyone else here had a shotgun.
Bill

yes

If you consider that Alaskans tend to use (an) "awl" for making holes in certain things, whereas Texans tend to make holes for their "awl", I'm not so sure that you can make a case for Texans being more intelligent.

This thread is still going?

Simply by reading these sorts of threads one can EASILY sort out the douche bags that cause all the hunting accidents we hear about....

The logic they defend their stupidity with is astoundingly accurate with their results.

Don't think you have a lock on something "thick" in central NY as you are likely speaking with folks here that have BT/DT a time or two. We know you are full of chit because central NY, in all that wide open farm land between 90 and 86, isn't "thicker", and damn sure isn't steeper, than the western end, or the eastern end of the state. Visability where I hunt bear in the west side of the 'Dacks is 5 feet in some places......and yes I killed a bear there.

Killing a deer in the Alleganys of western NY doesn't have anything to do with "luck" for me either, as I have a clue, or two, about it.

NY, last season, cold chamber.....and even without your wishing me luck.



Hunted here in NY, my "back yard" at the time, cold chamber....



And here....



Here too....



Managed a LOT of deer when I lived there, like this late season Doe, and with an unprimed muzzleloader of all things....



And this one too.....despite what the "experts" are trying to tell me.



Yeah tell me more tearful tales about how hard it is to hunt cold chamber in the thick stuff.......

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How many people think this same thread will get resurrected next year, as opposed to starting a new one that says the same things?
I think both...

Really? /S/ off (in case you didn't get it)

We're in clearcuts all the time to recover game (the only time we're in 'em), but we're not hunting if we're picking up animals we've already shot......how many times do you shoot your dead animals?

What kind of boots do you own?

ok dickbag , i didnt realize someone could actually know every hill and valley in all of ny. you dont even know what county or town im referring to. i know what thick is as far as terrain and its not a clover field. if your such an expert with expert picture witness, looks like you gut shot that doe with your cold chamber jackass. your pics really dont impress me either. and where i own land isnt farm country . maybe if you asked you could spare all your chest pounding and time it took to put your trophy portfolio on this page.

you'll b e wishing you had a hot chamber after i beat your alaskan ass

Oh, boots! Let's talk about boots!
I screwed up my left ankle four years in a row wearing corks to keep me from slipping and falling all the time. They really grab in good wood! We have so much wood on or near the ground here that you have to wear corks or you'll spend more time on your ass than on your feet. That was several years ago, but I still have my Currins. I got some rubber corks once, but ended up taking the corks out and putting airbobs on them...not as good but can be worn more places....like where you can actualy walk on the ground all day.
Walk around clearcuts? Great, I'll come back tomorrow and see if you're out yet.

Stalked?

if you did in the leaves and snow,i'm impressed....

Actually, we drive around clearcuts.

I'm wondering about the boots worn by our campfire friends that are upright challenged when hunting.....I'm wanting to get to the bottom of this falling down syndrome.

His Florida ass. He's from Florida.

You can calm down now. Both wildswalker and SH have plenty of good information regardless of your difference in opinions. Take a breath, agree to disagree and enjoy the site. You might learn something. I know I have.


Travis

JO already has a launch date marked on his calendar for next year!

Priceless!
I've got to say I'm impressed by the pictures. From the posts, I thought they were older.
Bill

Go figure that grizzly-a-loon can't cipher an exit wound on a quartering toward shot, nor that facts trump his position across the board.

Can't know what central NY county has it all over the 'dacks for rough and thick, but I'm hoping to learn. Grizzly-a-loon, you're welcome to try the Saddles for a spell, but leave the 4-wheeler at home; the trails were done in by your's truly, and the terrain has central NY trumped, handily.

Ditto the same for the Wallingford Pond and Victory State Forest areas of Vermont; and, Amherst, Alleghany, Augusta, Bedford, Nelson, Pulaski, Rockbridge, and Rockingham counties in VA. BT/DT, in those locales (amongst others). You're welcome to try..... Though, comparatively, they ain't even that rough.

Do tell on that hellish central NY county, though.....

All the game ever bred, isn't worth one man dead.

But I still will hunt with a hot chamber!