Carrying a heavy gun hunting
Is not the most comfortable thing, and for a while I lusted after one of these. It makes more sense to me than bringing a properly slung gun to shooting position, just slide it out of the scabbard and let gravity help you bring it into position.
I sleep with my arms up over my head, always have, so the action of reaching over my shoulder is natural and comfortable, and at the Shot Show (Our booth is close to NCstar) I tried out one of the sausage sack ones with a blue gun.
And saw the trouble with it immediately. You can’t draw a gun like that without muzzling everyone behind you, and that’s just stupid.
So I think I might buy one of these from Orvis. The weight of the gun would be on the belt but most of the benefit comes from having the gun pointed safely and being able to get it to your shoulder fast. A nice idea, I think, for a sporting arm. And it would work for scoped rifles as well.
I think the first one might be more versatile. I would doubt the second one would be conducive to walking and it is for a guy using a shot gun to kill clay pigeons. Or at least appears to be that on first blush.
Course what do I know. My deer stand is becoming my left front seat.
Indeed. Tell me how you pull a shotgun out of a shoulder holster without pointing the gun at everyone behind you, which is the point of the post.
Og, try this. I’ve done it this way since a kind older gentlemen instructed me while I was in my teens.
Sling the rifle muzzle down over your off shoulder. The rifle will be pinned under your elbow and you can guide the rifle with the off hand. It’s extremely easy to guide it through quite thick brush without a problem. When it’s time to mount, simply roll the sling off the shoulder and you’re all set. My hunting rifles have padded slings, so the slings are installed “upside down.”
Try it a few times and I think you’ll agree.
HTH
I’ve carried that way, but it means you’re stepping in your muzzle path about every other step. And my shoulders are rounded as hell, so any sling slips off my shoulder every 8 seconds making sling carry on the on shoulder a nightmare. I can carry- like to a stand, or a camp, with the sling across my neck on the off shoulder, but my shoulders and neck muscles conspire to make “Normal” sling carry bloody impossible
True.
it’s really not a big deal with a light shotgun or a small rifle, but if you get up into the big bores, carrying them for a long time can be uncomfortable.