Thread: Stewart Island police

Originally Posted by Sidetrack

And really, chamber flags??? what the actual fuck!! Those things are for Utubers, to show the firearms illiterate that a rifle is not loaded, they are not a solution for proper firearm safety. Pure virtue signaling!!!

Wether or not chamber flags are for utubers is a moot point. The fact is the non firearm owning public, who you'll meet by the score out in the back blocks ARE firearm illiterate and anyone with a firearm is the bogeyman (in their eyes, for all sorts of reasons, which is another conversation) so as responsible firearms owners, it's up to us to reassure them that they're safe and that we ARE responsible and if chamber flags are one of the tools we can use to promote that, then where's the harm?

Originally Posted by Zedrex

The fact is the non firearm owning public, who you'll meet by the score out in the back blocks ARE firearm illiterate and anyone with a firearm is the bogeyman (in their eyes, for all sorts of reasons, which is another conversation) so as responsible firearms owners, it's up to us to reassure them that they're safe and that we ARE responsible and if chamber flags are one of the tools we can use to promote that, then where's the harm?

@Zedrex Where I hunt goats I have to walk a few hundred metres to get to it along a remote metal road that often has sightseers doing a tiki tour along it. Cars often stop to chinwag, but only to ask what I'm hunting, had any luck etc. It's quite refreshing actually.... One time I took my mate out there and she shot a big billy. It was close to the road so she dragged it out. She burst out of the bush, dragging a dead billy goat just as a backpacker's camervan went past. He looked shocked, swivelled his head just about in a complete half circle watching her as he drove past, and nearly drove off the road.... He must have thought he was in "Deliverence" country! He did a bit of fishtailing before getting the van on track again...