When do you chamber a round while hunting?

When do you chamber a round while hunting?

  • A. No round in the chamber until you are ready to take a shot.

    Votes: 111 27.9%

  • B. Round chambered, safety on while hunting.

    Votes: 275 69.1%

  • C. Round chambered firing pin disengaged. If you hold the trigger down while chambering a round

    Votes: 12 3.0%
  • Total voters
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So I just mortar stomped two Remington 700s hard as **** a few times, and it didn't go off with a just empty case and primer. One with the factory x mark and the other with a timney. Safety's work. And the biggest safety is keep that finger out of the trigger guard. So, I'll just do that ;)
 
dfanonymous said:
I guess I should go cook some popcorn first
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Will this do?

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Just curious here. Never been to Africa but have seen different TV shows of hunts. See PH's, trackers, and hunters carrying their firearms by the muzzle. Is that a common practice over there? If so, guns are completely unloaded I would assume and there's no option A,B, or C.
 
TG-5150 said:
Alcoholism killed my uncle, but he had a stock ADL and I saw it go off three times I think, maybe four.
Never, was a finger on the trigger when it happened. That gun got sent in for a factory recall. That doesn't mean it can't happen again.
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Remington had some issues for a while...
 
dfanonymous said:
So I just mortar stomped two Remington 700s hard as ---- a few times, and it didn't go off with a just empty case and primer. One with the factory x mark and the other with a timney. Safety's work. And the biggest safety is keep that finger out of the trigger guard. So, I'll just do that ;)
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Did you do that with the rifle decocked or the safety on?
 
phorwath said:
Your example is good enough proof for most.

I'll let Figgy explain the deficiencies.

Here it comes now... "but did your Uncle have his finger on the trigger when he slammed the bolt home?"

Remember, it has to measure up to Figgy's proof level. Something he demands. But hasn't articulated.
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That example is still different than a decocked rifle discharging isn't?
 
phorwath said:
Congratulations Figgy. You've collected 3 votes for your safe gun handling preference # "C".

Don't get me wrong. Your opinion is 100% correct for you. But worthless to 97%. 98% if I were to cast my vote. Seems like my opinion is thought of quite highly by most everyone, EXCEPT you. BTW, that makes yours insignificant. :D

You must have got an in-law to vote.
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I wasn't trying to gain any votes brother, and haven't heard anything in this thread worth changing my mind. In fact those that have actually tested it with an primered empty cartridge couldn't get a discharge which I would think supports my position don't you?
 
My dad taught me method A. That's what I taught my boys. Have never been in such a rush to shoot that I didn't have a second to run the bolt and load a round.

That said, when hunting coyotes with the gas gun, method B is used.
 
FIGJAM said:
haven't heard anything in this thread worth changing my mind. In fact those that have actually tested it with an primered empty cartridge couldn't get a discharge which I would think supports my position don't you?
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I don't believe he's said one way or the other if that was condition B or C. I'm going to leave it with this because I think it bears repeating:

therifleman556 said:
What I am trying to argue is this:

A primer fires by inertia from the pin, no one would argue that. With the pin resting on the primer all that's left to do is add inertia. How much, or what direction is irrelevant; no one knows for sure what kind of accident or takes to complete the cycle.

No one would argue that one should replace using common sense and firearms safety with a mechanical one; *but*, with said mechanism in use there is at least something in use that is designed to arrest the pin. With condition C, there's none.
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That's all I've got, let it sway who it may.
 
TG-5150 said:
Alcoholism killed my uncle, but he had a stock ADL and I saw it go off three times I think, maybe four.
Never, was a finger on the trigger when it happened. That gun got sent in for a factory recall. That doesn't mean it can't happen again.
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I don't disagree with what you are saying...isn't that the big trigger issue remington got in trouble for? I think that is damning for having a cartridge in the chamber period.
 
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