I was always in your camp until I bought my 700 300 WM. After missing a shot, and always checking to see if my bolt handle had gotten lifted, it was a relief to find my t3 locked the bolt down. Think about it, you know you are going to off safe, you are somewhere safe and unloading your gun. If you follow basic safety rules (and while know lapses happen, this is a time when you know to pay attention) and it goes bang, you wasted a shell, and killed the dirt. Shouldn't happen, probably won't happen, but if it does it should not be a big deal. Saw my dad do it once, old 700,light trigger, readjusted trigger, never happened again and no big deal. It did make everyone present much more aware. Not to be cavalier about safety, but guns, like chainsaws, are dangerous and no practical safety can change that.
