So what are you going to do when the biggest deer of your life walks up to you and you didn't here it coming,your hammer on your Hawkins is not pulled back and your set trigger has not been pulled?Now the deer is close and will certainly hear any click of the hammer.But if you avoid that by pulling the trigger back,which by the way doesn't seem all that safe either but I do it,you can not avoid the CLICK of the set trigger when pulled.