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

i'm done

... I also seem to remember Capstick saying that one of the things he feared the most was walking in front of a hunter who had a loaded chamber and that Nash Buckingham did not have a safety on his favorite duck gun. I doubt, however, that I will change the way I have been doing things for over a half of a century.

That's the exact thing one of my friends, a bear guide says. He even tells of a time when he tracked a wounded bear into the alders; two hunters he was guiding came in after. The bear wasn't found until the next day. It had actually come around on their back trail. Still, he felt his greatest danger was the hot chambers the two hunters carried.

Funny thing... As a human with modest hand speed I can still mount a rifle and put a round in the chamber fast enough to shoot as soon as the rifle butt meets shoulder... Bears are far from supernatural... They are still bound by all those laws of physics... Molding components of the limits of blood, bone and muscle for millennia.

If the physical act of raising a gun and flipping off the safety is too much there is an issue bigger than hot-cold.

Most are,IMO. i would be leary too..