VHE Parker - 20 gauge Pigeon gun....?

[Researcher]

Short barrel open bored guns without safeties are often considered "plantation quail guns" where the shooters road horseback. Gun carried unloaded in your scabbard and only loaded when you dismount and walk in for the flush.

[Big D]

Have spent a Lot of days as a Dog Boy at tower shoots in my area. Unfortunately, there have been a few very animated discussions which I have initiated, when I would say to a shooter coming into my area, with the gun dangling from his hand pointing at me, "Please open the action" and he would say, it's OK, The safety is on", and then my decibel level would rise as I said "I didn't ask you if the safety was on, I TOLD you to open the action". Usually worked, but occasionally I would have him removed from the shoot

[Bill Murphy]

I have seen long threads discussing the operation of a hammer gun in the field. I would like to read those threads again. As for Aldo's Fox, I think that he hunted quail behind steady pointing dogs and had no interest in shooting wild flushing birds. In my opinion, he loaded his gun after his dogs went on point. Nash claimed that he loaded his gun only when he was ready to shoot. I don't really believe that statement. I just think he was muzzle conscious and didn't rest his finger on the trigger.