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I agree... a gun on a sling is kinda dangerous.

Any shotgun with a sling is bit of a scurvy dog. It's like a man wearing a bra in the field...sure it might provide some extra support but it just ain't right.

Maybe,thru this protocol,everybody knows where the other guys guns are pointing ,as opposed to several muzzles sweeping the countryside willy nilly,and with no game in sight?

I take it you never had a guy slip down in front of you with a gun slung on his shoulder.

When a gun is out of your hands you have no muzzle control.

The gun is slung on the non shooting shoulder, barrels to the FRONT, the non shooting hand gripping the barrels, pointing them to the sky (almost vertically).
So the gun is never out of your hands, and you always have muzzle control.

With kind regards,
Jani

Rifle hunters,military and LE seem to be able to handle a sling safely,why not shotgun hunters ?
Geeze if you don't think you can control your muzzle with a sling,maybe you should take up golf !

More and more people are carrying small digital cameras to take photos while hunting. Slinging your gun and getting it out of the way makes taking pictures a whole lot easier. Also, you bag a limit a mile from the truck, nice to stroll back at sling arms. And since you already have your limit, the gun can be empty.

Come on a firearm carried by a sling is as safe as one carried in the hands. I've spent almost 60 years carry firearms by hand and slung over my shoulder. Every where from the mountains of Korea to the the western plains and mountains of the USA. There may be some here that have investigated more hunting accidents than I and have more expertise than I in these investigations, but never had a hunting 10-50 involving a sling,b ut a number of them being carried in someone hands. If you are a turkey hunter who gets a long way from the truck, you'll soon learn that you need a sling.

Geeze....it was a yankee that almost shot me when he slipped and fell on his back-side with his gun slung on his shoulder walking in front of me while turkey hunting a long way from the truck.

gO figure.

Joe;
That Yankee knowed you was a "REB". He probably had manipulated that whole thing to make it look like & "Accident". You're just extremely lucky that Dumb Yankee didn't have enough intellegence to completely pull it off. Don't condemn the sling on that one account.

yankee's don't "almost" shoot Reb's,I think thats already been proven