Builder, I did an "armed" walk in the quail woods today before the rain ran me out. I carried my Ithaca SKB 20 with shells in the chambers breach open with my left hand and thumb over shells. Fairly easy to do. It's when you forget you have shells in the chamber and handle the gun with muzzle up that they fall out. One advantage of the Ideal is that the safety is not automatic. If you have shells in chambers, the only movements you make are closure, shouldering, swinging and shooting. Adding another step after closure and mounting, sliding the safety off after it automatically goes "on" can slip past you. It has gummed me up more than once after closing the action on an unexpected shot. Gil
