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Firearms Safety is Key to our Continued Freedoms

since9

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As to hunting I do see you mentioned taking turns.

Wouldn't work for me 99 percent of the time I hunt alone. Same with fishing.

Then we're talking apples and oranges, as I clearly mentioned the safety factor required when either hunting with other people (doesn't matter hoof or wing), or clearly identifying one's target at all times, anyway.

My concern was properly identifying one's pray, primarily because some jerk of a hunter shot a deer when my head was only about two feet to the left of the path of his bullet. I was walking towards the deer, both of us in the middle of an open field, the deer only about 50 yards away, and had stopped to aim when the jerk about a hundred yards behind me pulled the trigger. Blaze orange hat. Blaze orange vest. Even a reflector belt, although it was at that time bright morning light.

The jerk clearly had no manners, and certainly zero knowledge of any hunter safety course (regardless of whether he took one or not).

Just me but every gun I own ling guns and handguns are loaded 24 7 365

Same, except for an ornamental piece.
 
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