Ray, agree mostly with you except "A gun pointed at nobody is a safe gun"... that simply isn't true as Remington concluded forty years ago that 100% safe gun handling is never possible.
I only keep one up the spout when I'm on the trail of something, until then the chamber is empty but then I mostly hunt alone so it's a moot point.
“Perfection is Achieved Not When There Is Nothing More to Add, But When There Is Nothing Left to Take Away” Antoine de Saint-Exupery
