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Regardless of two shots versus three or more, to me it is imprudent not to reload if you have one in the magazine. A rifle that isn't loaded is only good for poking at something. An empty in the chamber is useless and would slow you down should you need another for whatever reason, even hunting deer. Have we not heard stories of hunters who aimed at quarry and squeezed the trigger only to find out they forgot to reload?

Ardent is rightly doing what all shooters should but most do not - training. People tend to perform in real situations as they have drilled in training. If one has a "favoured simple practice regimen" it should always include ejecting the empty and loading the next round because that is what you should do in the field.

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Good points, all of them. We all fall back on our training under stressful situations. Lack of any training, promotes panic, confusion and sometimes, merely standing there watching the bear charge, mouth hanging open, working the bolt and emptying the rifle's rounds out onto the ground, thinking while panic stricken that they are actually shooting the bear.

Phil S. has probably seen this in Alaska as well as the 2 incidents I know of right here in B.C. Grizzly's can have that effect - I suspect a leopard, lion or buff would be even more terrifying.

The same sort of following your training has happened when policemen were shot while putting empties in their pocket, just as they did on the range, instead of dumping fired brass and reloading. Thankfully, training has changed, even with the wheel-gun shooters.

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Daryl


"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

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