This thread and the other cold/hot thread have been quite educational to me. I had no idea how many people walk around in the woods hunting without a round in the chamber. I do know all the guides with whom I have hunted have said that they would tell me when to chamber a round. 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.
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