Thread: How do you carry your rifle?

Originally Posted by Tussock

It's not that bad. It does sound a bit extreme but if your selecting a safe firing zone, it's a safe discharge in an area where it's fine to fire a rifle.

No harm done. If your routine was to do it regularly, when hunting, I think your more likely to do it that way, than all the racket and rigmarole of unloading to check. Unloading to check your safety is something you would put off in the rain, when an action full of water might be what causes the trouble.

I approve. After all, the safety will work, and an actual discharge would be a rarity. The issue is, as always where you point it.

Tussock you have just opened up a firearm safety section and your advocating its a safe & acceptable practise to wander around in the bush squeezing the trigger ever half hour (in a safe direction) so see if your safety actually works? The issue is that habits like that become learned behaviour & one day when he's tired, dehydrated, etc the safety will actually be off.

If you want to check your safety, do it before a hunt on an empty chamber.