>>>Yeah, out of which 87 were loaded, and 38 with a round in chamber!!! That's to show that a lot of people like to shoot a gun, but quite a few don't know how to handle/carry/store it safely.
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>That's crazy if you're just transporting the thing.
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>Would be interested to hear what you think about safe handling in dense forest terrain. When hunting deer, IME a lot of people keep a round chambered- obviously with safety on- because chambering a round is noisy enough to send your target scarpering! Modern weapons have pretty good safeties, fortunately...

Obviously, there are different conditions of gun readiness for live fire. I'd assume that when deer hunting, you would have the gun manned/in your possession, at the highest level of safe readiness. That's different than a safe gun condition during transfer or storage.
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