Leaving gun loaded?

[Tomm]

My brother left his loaded till he would get a shot at a deer or elk. His hunting season was only 5 days. He seamed to miss a lot doing that me I always shot my load out just as we were coming out of the woods. My brother used my rifle to take more then one deer and at lest one elk in the 25 years that we were hunting together.

Tom

 

[rabjr]

My brother left his loaded till he would get a shot at a deer or elk. His hunting season was only 5 days. He seamed to miss a lot doing that me I always shot my load out just as we were coming out of the woods. My brother used my rifle to take more then one deer and at lest one elk in the 25 years that we were hunting together.

Tom

Obviously your brother wasn't doing something right. Flintlocks or Caplocks, I never had one fail in the woods in 26 years and most deer were taken after more than one day of hunting.

If you don't develop a proper loading technique and maintain your gun properly during a hunting season, you are asking for trouble.