Stan;
I am in total agreement with you on the matter of an open gun. Under hunting situations I would on occasion if encountering other hunters open my gun (& Unload) but hold it carefully. If approaching a hazardous area which I didn't want to navigate with a loaded gun I always opened it, removed the shells & then closed it back. I always felt that if I should take a bad tumble the gun would fair better bolted shut than with the barrels swinging free. Plus in a situation such as this if the gun is opened & the shells left in there is as much, or more, of a possibility of the gun being slammed shut in a fall & discharging as there is if it were simply left loaded & bolted.
