ORIGINAL: hillbillyhunter1
Although I'm new to inline MLs, I have been hunting for 25+ years. When I hunted with my old sidelock, I would practice safe gun handling (always, of course) but did have it constantly "capped" as soon as I got in the field,with the hammer completely "uncocked"
As I just bought a new Omega, I've been reading the owners manual and it says to never "prime" the weapon until you're ready to fire. Now I know that the Official word (Manuals) onmost weapons err on the side of caution and I, myself,do not plan to hunt (walk, stand, sit, whatever...in the field) w/o a "primed" ML.
Does anyone practice "safety" to this extent (leaving it "unprimed"???
Thanks
I can understand if you have a newbie (especially new young 'un)hunting with you, you may ask him to do that until you're sure of his safe gun handling practices and overall mechanical knowledge
I tree stand hunt and pull my rifle up with a rope, so I don't put a primer in until I am in the stand and ready to hunt. In the AM I am going in to the stand in the dark so no loss there, and in the PM scaring up a deer and shooting at a deer in flight is not a good shot, so no loss there either. Safety first.
Chap Gleason