[quote=Shotgunlover]"Famous man eater hunter, Jim Corbett, wrote that he never carried a cocked gun, he always had the safety"
Corbett may have been talking about a hammer gun with a "stalking safety" which is a sliding bolt that locks the hammer in the half cock bent & off the firing pin or cap in the case of a percussion gun otherwise his statement does not make sense as most hammerless doubles & bolt action guns won't allow you to apply the safety on an uncocked gun (Note that I said most because you can apply the side trigger blocking safety on an uncocked Mannlicher Schoenauer rifle if so equipped but not the bolt mounted wing safety so I guess that is another possibility).
No substitute for having the muzzle pointed in a safe direction.
