Published on November 24, 2022November 24, 2022  in News/Hunting

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/11/24/hunters-keep-shooting-each-other-in-nebraska-hunters-in-wyoming-advise-against-that/

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By Mark Heinz, Outdoors Reporter
Mark@CowboyStateDaily.com

Three accidental shootings in three days during Nebraska’s deer season, and the memory of a fatal hunting accident in Wyoming last year, bring home the point that hunters can’t ever take gun safety for granted.

“I won’t allow a loaded rifle into my truck. Ever. Period,” Greybull hunter and trapper John Eckman told Cowboy State Daily.

He and other Wyoming outdoorsmen also said that a hunting rifle should always be carried with the firing chamber empty. Hunters don’t need to chamber a round until they’ve got a clear, safe shot lined up on big game animal, they said.

“Never, ever, ever chamber a round until you’re ready to shoot,” noted Wyoming outdoorsman Paul Ulrich of Pinedale told Cowboy State Daily.

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