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Originally posted by m21sniper
I ALWAYS keep a round chambered unless i am cleaning the firearm or unloading it to give to someone else. If i EXPECT my chamber to ALWAYS be loaded i am far, far less likely to mistakenly think it's empty and do something really stupid.
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What good is an empty chamber? Geez, I can't believe how many people walk around like that. Like you, all of my guns always have one up the pipe.
On a semi-related note, I was camping and hunting with a buddy and his neighbor (whom I did not know) up on the Tagagawick river outside of Kotzebue, Alaska. We were after caribou, but it was good bear country as well. We had seen several, and at least one had been sniffing around camp. I kept my M70 (in .375 H&H) loaded at all times, even at night. One morning as I was cleaning up breakfast dishes, with my rifle close at hand (hanging by its sling off a low broken off tree branch) this guy was tidying up camp. He noticed the big old wing safety all the way back, surmised it must be loaded, and proceded to empty th chamber and hang it back on the branch. Without telling me. He stuffed the round into the sling where I would see it. I shudder to think what might of happened if a curious, then aggressive bear showed up and I needed the damn thing. We had a rather stern "come to Jesus" meeting after that. He was "just trying to be safe..."