treat every firearm as loaded and never trust a safety. What I mean there is that you don't go walking around the bush all day with it loaded, safety on unless you are actually prepared to see something. Safetys are mechanical things and potentially feck up.
If you are on your own hunting its a little different as while you could shoot yourself it would take a bit to line all those ducks up.
With someone else, then other rules come in like only the lead dude is ready for action so to speak.
Shot with a browning A5 for years. One of my favourite shotguns. used to do a lot puke drives and rabbits. You walk around with it loaded all the time and the safety on.
If it wasn't for 303's back in the day we wouldn't have this half cock notion.
A good friend years ago had a Winchester m70. he was cranky that the safety wouldn't come on. He'd adjusted the trigger that light, it wouldn't cam over properly.
He WAS going to do some grindy grindy on it so it would work, but saw the light and thought better of it.
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