Author Topic: How many of you Alaskans (Read 863 times)

Daveinthebush · « **on:** May 11, 2003, 06:59:29 PM »

How many of you Alaskans carry a round in the chamber when hunting bear? Or, when you know you might need something for protection?

Paul H · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2003, 08:12:59 AM »

I carry a round in the chamber when hunting moose as well. I don't know if I'd be so confidant with a trigger block safety, but with a mauser that uses a striker block safety, and very careful gun handling, I have no problems with having one in the tube. I also remove the round whenever the rifle goes out of my hands, and is slung on my shoulder.

Moose-Hunter · « **Reply #2 on:** May 12, 2003, 09:22:40 AM »

I only put a round in the chamber when I'm hunting bear. During moose season, all three rounds remain in the magazine (338 Win. Mag.).

dabigmoose · « **Reply #3 on:** May 12, 2003, 10:52:19 AM »

WELL
I Guess most of the time i have one chamberd.I have had a sow
Brownie charge and there would of been no time to chamber a round.
ALWAYS TAKE IT OUT ENTERING CAMP AND TRANSPORTING.
dabigmoose

Daveinthebush · « **Reply #4 on:** May 12, 2003, 10:52:52 AM »

That I am one that carries one in the chamber. Things happen quick and close. I do test the safey several times a year just to make sure it is working properly.

Winter Hawk · « **Reply #5 on:** May 28, 2003, 03:09:31 PM »

Can't claim to be a bear hunter. Have met a few out there, though. I usually pack either my NEF .30-06 with a round in or the Win. mod. 88 in .308 with a round in. And watch the muzzle!
-Kees-

Yukon Jack · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2003, 05:06:14 PM »

Just depends on where I'm hunting, how I'm hunting, what firearm I'm carrying and what I expect.

If I'm in deep brush along a salmon stream in the fall, yeah, a round is chambered. If I'm glassing slopes in the spring above timberline, no, not until I'm on the stalk.

Just depends. Bear hunting is dynamic and, like most other types of hunting, one standard set of rules, does not apply.

Dand · « **Reply #7 on:** June 02, 2003, 10:32:07 PM »

I don't hunt bears much but I'm like Yukon Jack, it depends for me. Since my 300 win rifle only holds 3 in the mag, I often chamber a 4th - ESPECIALLY IN THICK BEAR COUNTRY. In the tent at night too. But I often hunt alone. In the boat, on the snogo, or around camp during the day, or when others are around I try to keep the chamber empty.

A retired school teacher nearly blew his arm off a few years ago when his slinged 375 H&H tangled with the caribou rack he was packing. Knowing the guy and talking to him about it has made me more careful about carrying with a chambered round. Cell phones, air abulances, some good EMTs, and the wonders of modern medicine saved his arm- but I sure don't want to go through that or worse.