Yes, I hunt with a chambered round in my singleshots. I also hunt with loaded chambers in rabbit rifles and pheasant guns. And with muzzleloaders,,,, what can I say?
Interestingly, to me at least, I almost always shoot a large animal that goes down immediately while it flops the last couple of times. My bullets cause little meat damage, ammo is cheap, and mistakes that could lead to lost game are avoided. While rarely needed in these instances, these 2-shot kills contrast with the cases where I don't use a follow up shot. Those are cases where the animal runs off or disappears at the shot. They occasionally would benefit from a follow up shot if only they had stuck around for it. I find them at the end of a blood trail nicely dead more often than not, but they would have died sooner had I the chance for a second shot. In few or no cases would a multishot gun have helped with that follow up however.
Brent
