ORIGINAL: tricci357
... The release button is located inside of the trigger guard, which to me is unsafe. I have always been taught, and trained,never to put my finger inside of the trigger guard unless I intend to fire the weapon. ...
I'm 100% with you on that teaching, but I never drop the floorplate of my 700 unless the bolt is open: if I'm unloading the gun, the
first thing I want to be sure of is that the pipe's empty.
On my recent elk hunt, I spent an inordinate amount of time opening the bolt to make sure the pipe was empty, prior to crawling through the horrendous scrub they had up there. Call me compulsive. Call me complusvie. Call me compulsive. Call me compulsive...
FC