People will do what they want to do no matter what. I was hunting small game with my dad and brother one day back in the 70's. We ran into another hunter and we stopped to pass the time of day, As he was talking to us he had the barrel of his shotgun resting on the toe of his boot, as trap shooters are want to do. I asked him if his gun was loaded and he said yes, I then said he may want to either unload it or remove the barrel from his toes. He laughed and said it isn't a problem, I shot off two toes a couple of years ago resting my gun the same way, the part of the boot the gun is on is empty. We had a good laughed about it at home after we cleaned our game over a beer, but it really was more sad than funny.