Round In The Chamber

[treydfoster]

Michael ran that by me before posting. I agree with the IG video he posted. My comment about walking around with one in the chamber of a hunting rifle, other than when moving in on a stalk, was less charitable than his comment.

Nobody has ever been killed or harmed by a bullet leaving the barrel of an empty rifle. We get too many reports about deaths and injuries each year that were the situation of someone walking around with a live round in the chamber. And nobody killed or injured due to carrying a live round ever intended to get killed or injured.

Well you're wrong too.

 

[treydfoster]

As a note to expand on this, the context of the comment refers to out hunting big game with a rifle, not concealed carry or with a shotgun while bird hunting.

So it's okay to have one chambered during an activity with more people around, moving less cautiously through brush, than it is to be hunting with fewer people while walking more carefully and quietly? Doesn't check out for me.

 

[treydfoster]

No, never, just no...also an empty hole @ the revolver hammer. I don't have to guess, ever.

Me neither.

 

[treydfoster]

Anyone who hunts with a semi-auto and probably with a lever gun is hunting with one in the chamber.

 

[Frequently Banned Troll]

When I get of the truck with a bow, I don't nock an arrow either. That would be weird, right?

 

[BAKPAKR]

When I get of the truck with a bow, I don't nock an arrow either. That would be weird, right?

 

[MS 9x56]

So it's okay to have one chambered during an activity with more people around, moving less cautiously through brush, than it is to be hunting with fewer people while walking more carefully and quietly? Doesn't check out for me.

As my gramma used to say” there is nothing common about common sense”.

 

[BrentD]

As a note to expand on this, the context of the comment refers to out hunting big game with a rifle, not concealed carry or with a shotgun while bird hunting.

Randy, you hunt with a team of other people, you spot your target animals at a vast distance and shoot them from a vast distance, using a magazine rifle, as well. In contrast to how many other people hunt, it is very easy and makes perfect sense to hunt with an empty chamber in your world. But that is not the only world. Many others have made this point every time this topic comes up. And frankly, bird hunting in almost any conditions is going to be far more risky than big game hunting, yet all bird hunters do it quite well. You make allowances for bird hunters but not big game hunters, not because of safety but in spite of it being a riskier form of hunting.

I guess, I just don't get the absolutism.

I need to go back to ignoring this topic, and get back out on my snowshoes, in the brush, chasing grouse with a loaded double.

 

[DFS]

When I get of the truck with a bow, I don't nock an arrow either. That would be weird, right?

When I shot my deer this year my gun was 6 feet away from me and no round in the chamber. That was the confidence I had in shooting a deer that night.

 

[DFS]

I’ve actually refused to hunt with people that want to put a round in the chamber when they step out of the pickup.

 

[MTTW]

I am going out with the musket in the morning and will have one in the pipe so you guys might just want to stay indoors.

I scared the hell out of a bull last year with the sound of pulling the hammer back. He was about 50 feet away and I was looking at another bull and couldn't see the close one.

Maybe we could acknowledge that not everyone is hunting the same way.

Or maybe not.

 

[DFS]

I am going out with the musket in the morning and will have one in the pipe so you guys might just want to stay indoors.

I scared the hell out of a bull last year with the sound of pulling the hammer back. He was about 50 feet away and I was looking at another bull and couldn't see the close one.

Maybe we could acknowledge that not everyone is hunting the same way.

Or maybe not.

Is the hammer going to be cocked?

 

[MTTW]

Is the hammer going to be cocked?

Halfway

 

[belshawelk]

When I am following elk or find elk and by myself I will chamber. I never chamber with anyone with me.

 

[BAKPAKR]

When I shot my deer this year my gun was 6 feet away from me and no round in the chamber. That was the confidence I had in shooting a deer that night.

If your gun was 6 feet away and no round in the chamber when you shot your deer, what did you shoot him with?

 

[DFS]

If your gun was 6 feet away and no round in the chamber when you shot your deer, what did you shoot him with?

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When I am sitting I will put one in the chamber. I didn’t that evening.

 

[MS 9x56]

Well fellas you can continue to debate ad nauseam but I am going hunting and will have a round in the chamber and the safety on until I am ready to fire.

 

[NECALI]

We keep one chambered. Thought about Big Fins comments and was going to quit. But we decided it would be safer for us because we’re in grizzly country. We saw 5 this year and 13 last year. We were right below those two college wrestlers right after they got mauled a few years ago. We also pack 10mm’s and bear spray. Pray we never have to use any of them.

 

[treydfoster]

I’ve actually refused to hunt with people that want to put a round in the chamber when they step out of the pickup.

I'm sure they're fine with this.

 

[Nuts]

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I read back through and see this was clarified. My bad. Not bird hunting or concealed carrying. Ok take them out. So now we are only big game hunting. Does not matter to me either way at that point. Unless its bear country. I am not setting down a 338 to draw a 10mm. I will use what's likely in my hands. I don't sling it much. Especially in alders with low visibility. Still baffling that its 50/50