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

just wanted to be #1000. Yes, I have no life.
Bill

My fragile feelings are soooo [bleep] hurt.....

It'll be most fun having you around.

I'm takin' odds on Oracle status inside 9 months....the potential is there, and a record to break.

Laffin', here....

We are 90% chambered so far gentlemen!


This forum is the absolute best low cost entertainment going, its better than watching the old 3 stooges movies and a heck of a lot funnier than anything else on TV now a days...

I'm assuming this thread has turned into a train wreck, but I didn't want to wade through 1000 posts to find out, so I'll just answer the original question, (which is a good one):

I always used to hunt "hot." Now, with young teen hunters in tow, we all hunt "cold." Hasn't cost us any critters yet, but I s'pose it will someday. That's a fair trade for the piece of mind I get. Now, if I lived or hunted in Grizzly country...

seriously as a "youth" I saw a 410 shotgun shoot the hat off of a friend by his stupid brother that was walking behind him [bleep] with the trigger, very very lucky the boys were. I have had [bleep] idiots that had been drinking point rifles at my face while they chambered a round, I have had guys shoot in my direction more than once etc. etc. etc. so that part is not so funny. That is why I lease property these days anyway... We can argue and enjoy our arguments till the cows come home but a dead man is not funny. Just be dam careful which ever way you decide to hunt, me personally I see no point in plowing thru a briar patch with a round in the chamber, I do however carry a 2 inch barreled hammerless 38 revolver with two snake shot in it for what might be a problem in those cases (in a holster), if I needed something bigger it would be a holstered revolver of some type.

I posted this on the other thread but since it addresses some comments made here I�m posting it here as well:

Jeff �

Nowhere have I ever suggested that my way is the only way. Never. In fact, as I have often pointed out, I hunt both ways depending on circumstances. If I was sitting on a small clearing a hot chamber with rifle in hand would probably be my MO.

The facts are, however, that I often walk miles with a rifle on my back, taking it off only when resting. And the chamber is often cold throughout.

Sometimes there just isn�t any need for a hot chamber. Often, in fact, where I hunt. Mostly, in fact.







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On one occasion we watched a small herd of elk from 11:30 in the morning until after sundown before I finally was able to crawl to within 350 yards through cactus and sage before taking a bull. Yet because I often choose to carry cold � the absolute safest manner for carry - I�ve been slammed along with others who do so as too stupid and/or clumsy to carry a gun.

Go figure. I guess some people think the �smart� thing to do is carry hot even when there is absolutely no necessity for doing so?

Define "thick":





Chamber cold. How could it NOT be?

Define "open":



Chamber cold. Why would it not be?

What was the question again?

Seems there is a similar thread on a Canandian forum, running parallel to this one. A quick scroll down the first page turned up this........



Here I thought a safety served a purpose, turns out, all you need is a "strong hand".....

FWIW, strong hand meaning dominant hand.

That may very well be the case, but even if you're Super Man, it ain't gonna help you in a fall.

A safety is no substitute for an empty chamber, but it sure as he!l is light years safer than cocked/unlocked.....

I generally take the bolt out of my rifle and carry it in my pocket until I'm read to rock.

Likely correlates with the same people who "think" they can hunt, and the same people who "think" they are safe, and the same people who "think" something bad could never happen to them, and the same people who "think" they are intelligent....ect., ect.

Guessin' we have more of them around than we thought......

I try to put 2 in the chamber when I hunt.

This whole thread has me wondering this.
How many of you have a concealed handgun license and dont carry it hot??

And your question makes me wonder how many can't tell the difference between a deer and defending your life.

I carry a DA semiauto concealed with an empty chamber and a full mag with complete confidence.....I dare you.

Exactly, but still, I can't feel the pain.....sorry.

I generally carry the frame of my Glock in a holster and the slide in my pocket.

It's still a legit question.
After all most carrying never have to defend their life.
And most people do know the difference between deer as well as two leg and four leg varmints.

I don't give a shiit what anyone thinks, I'll let 100 deer get away before I think [bleep] like this should happen.

11-year-old killed in hunting accident

By Christian Boone
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
10-12-09
An 11-year-old boy hunting Friday night was shot and killed after his gun accidentally discharged, shooting the child in the head.
John Wayne Corcoran was hunting with this grandfather, Bernard Corcoran, when the shot was fired, said Ted Bearden, Dawson County coroner. Both family members are from Dawsonville in north Georgia.