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<blockquote data-quote="Hicks" data-source="post: 168863" data-attributes="member: 9129"><p>Thanks. I always open the chamber when a gun is around, or I explicitly tell the folks I'm with that I'm on an empty chamber. When I was just starting out, maybe 12 years old, I left my loaded shotgun propped on a fence while I went off to the truck to get something. I was hunting with the "big guys" and I thought myself pretty grown up. When I came back, I noticed that the action was opened, which I had not done. Somebody that I greatly respect quietly told me, so no one could hear, that you never, ever leave a gun with a round in the chamber. He said that was a good way for someone to get killed. Now, no one got hurt, and nothing happened, but this was a lesson I should have learned in hunter safety or even earlier. Never the less I was embarrassed and I was ashamed; I was not as grown up as I thought, at least in the eyes of those around me. Luckily the only thing damaged was my pride. I have never forgot that lesson. In any case the older I get the more careful I have become. I can't imagine not being able to hunt, but just the same we all have a lot to loose.</p><p></p><p>Hicks</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hicks, post: 168863, member: 9129"] Thanks. I always open the chamber when a gun is around, or I explicitly tell the folks I'm with that I'm on an empty chamber. When I was just starting out, maybe 12 years old, I left my loaded shotgun propped on a fence while I went off to the truck to get something. I was hunting with the "big guys" and I thought myself pretty grown up. When I came back, I noticed that the action was opened, which I had not done. Somebody that I greatly respect quietly told me, so no one could hear, that you never, ever leave a gun with a round in the chamber. He said that was a good way for someone to get killed. Now, no one got hurt, and nothing happened, but this was a lesson I should have learned in hunter safety or even earlier. Never the less I was embarrassed and I was ashamed; I was not as grown up as I thought, at least in the eyes of those around me. Luckily the only thing damaged was my pride. I have never forgot that lesson. In any case the older I get the more careful I have become. I can't imagine not being able to hunt, but just the same we all have a lot to loose. Hicks [/QUOTE]
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