I myself depends on the weather conditions ,I will keep the gun loaded as long as possiable ,but if hunting in the rain I will umload at the end of the day use to fire out the load now with the co2 discharges make life a lot easy ,and you can resued the sabot (always point the gun barrel in a safe direction when using the disgharger) I have the one that t/c use to make ,which are no longer sold.