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

Hmmmmmm..............

I'll make sure the camera batteries are good to go for this weekend, as there's be what, 5?, cold chambers in pursuit of tasty critters, and assuming scheduling doesn't get derailed by She-Who-Will-Not-Be-Named ( ), I doubt the game bag will be empty long.

You bet it's ready....I see you joined the 'fire 6 months after I did, yet you have 1500 more posts. Ah, what about not posting on the www gives you more experience?

Some schit, just ain't worth it.

Whether that be carrying hot and potentially taking a bullet yourself or passing it through something you don't intend to..........

Or trying to hold a horse's head underwater until it drinks.......... or drowns........

Some horses are hell bent on drowning......

I wouldn't worry about how other adults hunt if you're not part of the hunting party. Just how many handwringers do we have now?


Are we going to start saving horses from drowning now?

Just one AD away.

Or, one too many.

When Darwin and Murphy collide, the results can be interesting.

Thinkin' more on the lines of common sense and substance, but we can't expect you to not trip on that/those concepts.

Enjoy your hunting this year, don't trip/fall climbing into that shooting tower.......

Case in point.......

Nope, 'cause there's never anyone you didn't think of (or know about) within miles of you, unless they are your own party (and then, hey, they are all careful, so why worry? You only know them, their kids, their wives, might even be related to them...............)

Carry on.

As an aside, it would appear that sometimes NOT knowing, is half the battle.

We deal with those 2 everyday of our lives....this has become as bizarre a thread as I've seen on the 'fire. Youngsters with more experience than old pharts and old pharts belittling fellow old pharts. Tell me we have'nt become a nanny state.

Darwin and Murphy being the 2 we deal with everyday.

As I said, sometimes not knowing, is half the battle.

Carry on, as I'm sure you will, and God Bless Texas.......................................

Yes, by all means....God Bless Texas.

Just ran across this, and I suppose it was meant as bait..but if not...........

Where I live, pushing small bluffs is the norm if in a group. Flat stubble fields, - 15 to -20 deg celcius. Also hunt pasture on foot. For moose and elk, different terrain, etc hunt mostly on foot all day, but do alot of sitting, calling etc.

I always treat my fiream "hot" whether in the house, outside, loaded or unloaded. My finger never touches the trigger until game is spotted and the safety goes off. I prob check the position of the safety 15 times during the day......a bit anal about that. When in the cabinet, actions are often (not always) left open.

Does that satisfy??

Got back from elk camp a couple days ago... Carried "hot" the whole time, other than stream crossings on a log and the like.

Commenting because I noticed the comment about checking the safety 15 times a day. From all the yapping we've done on this subject, I kind of self-analyzed how I habitually carry... I do NOT sling my rifle, it's always in my hands. Anyway, noticed that, by habit, always, my right thumb flat LIVES on the safety, checking and insuring it's pulled back, trigger finger is parallel to the stock, outside the triggerguard, other than to often give the bolt handle a downward nudge to insure it is fully in battery.

Hadn't realized just how obsessively I ride that safety. This sort of habit would have prevented your AD/ND, Wildswalker.

As to risk maneagement, I never once wore a seatbelt on those logging roads, and (gasp!) I had three whole beers one night. Not to mention leaving camp in the dark, busting butt into the big woods, and not getting back to camp until after dark.... Oh, didn't carry my full elk pack (Badlands Superday), so I only had one bottle of water, one space blanket, etc.

I am, truly, livin' on the edge.

I did talk to a cold-chamber guy up there, but it was hard to understand him through the bubble-wrap he'd covered himself in... grin...

Once an ignorant azzhole....ALWAYS an ignorant azzhole.

Guess you prove THAT one.

My Dad can kick your dad's azz......

Probably so... grin...

Did you ever cough up what state and unit you hunt, WW? I was gone for a week...

Boondock, USA.

Can't you read?

Same "unit" I'm sitting in now.....though, we really don't have "units" per se.

Guessin' you missed where I said my AO was none of your damn business?!?

Some things never change, like your frequent and unrelenting idiocy, for example.

Nor do you disappoint us by letting that which matters most solidly sink in.

A laughing stock you are, and a safe bet you'll make an internet career of it.

Continue in your bliss poser, you are golden, it'll never happen to you......

I bet I know where you are!