When do you load up?

[Grant Flaming]

I will switch it up a little bit here... when I leave the CAR!!  At least I do now anyways. A couple years ago I pulled the trigger and heard nothing but a click with four strutting jakes 12 yards in front of me. I moved REALLY slow and brought one of them home with me. 

[Eric Gregg]

I load up at the truck before I head into the woods.
I have had them sound off just as soon as I stepped away from truck.
You don't know how much time you have to get ready when that happens, so you better be already prepared

[gobbler777]

At truck

[chad fenton]

I load my gun at truck

[MizzouOutdoors]

At the truck or the front porch, which ever one I am getting out of that morning

[handcannon]

I load up when I get under the roost tree. They wont fly away from the sounds when its dark or even when the Q-Beam hits them.

Just pickin guys. Dont start no hater threads. I load up at the truck too. Where I hunt, if I come up to a fence,  I'm not supposed to cross it.

[joker]

I load up at the truck.

[SonicBanshee]

at the truck...you never know whats gonna happen

[Trey]

When leaving the truck. 

[mfd1027]

I shoot an Encore so I pop one in the bbl. as i walk away from the truck.   

[Wycliff]

When I leave the truck also

[hoyt]

I'm always loaded...gun that is...I live alone and walk out the door into the woods to hunt. Should have said..I prime my flintlock before I walk out the door and dump the prime before I walk in. Leave the charge in it as long as the weather is good. If I hunt in the rain I use a cow's knee to cover the lock and then shoot it after the end of hunt and clean and reload when I get home, just in case the charge might be damp.

I don't leave my flintlocks primed and loaded when in the house. Got a loaded handgun for those purposes.

[GOLD HUNTER]

i load my gun as im walking from the truck.....i hunt the N/F so no fences !!

brian

[OLE RASPY]

Guess I am in the minority. I feel there is NO reason to have a loaded gun while walking through the woods 1.5 hours before the birds will fly down. I would like to hear a good justification for that. Now late morning hunts, yes, it is loaded at the truck and stays loaded until I return to the truck, but there is no reason to load the gun at 4 am in the pitch black before a long walk through the woods. JMO.

So watcha gonna do when big foot appears in the pitch black and your not loaded.     I know what im gonna do


On a serious note i respect your opinion, everybody has one.

[hoyt]

There's cougars that travel right by my house. One crossed the hwy and came along the creek that is about 20yds from my bathroom window. I hunt behind my house and always carry a loaded gun when in the woods. To old to manhandle mountain lions anymore.