In theory to me the safe in the middle safety/selector on my NIDs is the best for hunting with a single trigger gun, but I hardly ever do that. I almost always hunt with a double trigger gun. Last fall I did take an IC/Mod Superposed out hunting and had a fairly wild flush where I wanted to switch to the heavy load in the modified barrel, but it didn't happen, and the Rooster went safely, and un shot at, out into the cattails of a lake a half mile away.