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

The direction i should have took, i'm learning..

I'm working on a Wheelbarrow sytem, with my reloading equipment mounted on it and will only load a round if needed.

patent pending

I can hear the dad of that 11 year old "Damn people can't walk around the woods without falling, wonder how they carry a CCW" It's all about muzzle control.

Yep, here's hoping it don't happen to any of you but I expect it will.

nobody ever said 100% of the time, or especially with kids.

Hell i would let 10,000 deer go before i think crap like that that should ever happen.
I just posed a simple to answer question in the midst of all of this clatter.

Right, not 100% of the time, so then it's a question of risk/reward.

Risk is a dead kid, reward is a squirrel?

Guessing we have different priorities.

I rarely hunt without my kids these days....so that matters.

And I'll add friend, wife, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, grandfather, guy I never met.......

Steely and me are riding in the boat, Rem7 just got tossed by the wake.......

you missed it..

my only argument is that cold is not always a succesful option when pertaining to (MY HUNT ALONE) or if i hunt with my capable friends. we are adults and kids or inexperienced hunters are another story.

if we decided at a certain area or species we are hunting that we need to be hot,i'm confident we can make it a few hours without killing each other, any experienced hunter should feel the same about there own ability

WW, i wouldn't hunt with you if you payed for everything,and if i did i guarantee you would get beat to the punch.

You missed it, but I ain't surprised.

So you've hunted every species known to man,in every circumstance and know what they all require to be succesful?
part of that should include a necessity for a "hot" chamber and the ability of the hunter not to kill himself.. if there is anyone that can't do that, they need to give it up..

You win

Flatter yourself, nitwit......

Prayers sent... grin...

Having gone into tight cover following a wounded bear without a hot chamber... and surviving it more than once... I find some of the "I can't do it" crowd far beyond amusing.

Calvin and Coyote Hunter saying their rifles were slung 90% of th time was illustrative.

Different conditions lead to different ways of hunting. Can promise that a guy hunting blacktail how and where I hunt them with a cold chamber and rifle slung (on a 14% tag) will be enjoying Tag Soup.

On the other hand a guy hunting Sitkas where the deer stands there looking at you while you whistle to your buddy, chamber a round in your .357 mag carbine, then shoot it could probably hunt just about any old way and still fill the freezer.

I don't feel like digging back. Wildswalker, did you ever confess what state and unit you are hunting in?

Thankfully Jerry Lewis does a telethon for them, though it don't seem to be helping much.

You're still and idiot Jeff. I've killed deer in 8 states hunting cold.

I gotta wonder why guys unload their guns when going up and down a deer stand? God knows a bunch of folks slip/fall out them every year and they gun generally ain't unloaded at that time.

Damn shame your grandfather didn't give you the same lesson at 11 as that kid.

that has to be the dumbest thing i ever [bleep] heard, you would rather take your chances with a wounded bear than trust your own ability..give it up..

Rather that than ham and casseroles following a funeral...