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the tv mountin man shot off his finger off carrying a loaded and capped muzzle loader over his shoulder muzzle first with his hand, well the tv expert went under some low hanging trees or brush and the hammer got caught and as he pulled to free the rifle, his hand went over the muzzle and the hammer slipped off the brush and now he has seven fingers and two thunbs, it could have been worst as a person walking in front of him may have been killed. he gets my DUMB S*IT OF THE year award. i also saw tony on NRA,s tracks across arfica carrying a leaver action 1886 big bore the same way with people walking ahead of him,i don,t know if it was loaded tho. the pictue of me was posed on my last trip to africa and i never saw any one carrying their rifle by the muzzle over their shoulder in four hunting trips to africa. eastbank.
 

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Who is he, what show? This just proves that TV doesn't care if it's reality, only if is sells as reality. I watch Mountain Men and I laugh at the houndman in Montana. I raised hounds for bear and lion for years and some of the stuff is crazy, like treeing a cat and saying "he won't bother us anymore", Well it's my opinion that a .22 would make that a sure thing, not walking off and saying it!
 
A lot of people did that and worse back in the 1800s with their flintlock and caplock rifles, carrying them as they marched out on the California or Oregon Trails.
Still, today, we ought to know better....but I guess not........
 
his tv name is sasquach, (my spelling is as bad as his safety training). eastbank.
 
double naught spy. google sasquatch mountin man shoots off one of his fingers. it was on the tv show he stars in, he explained how it came about and said he capped the muzzle load to get a quick shot if he saw a animal and was not going to do it again. well maybe seven more times as he only had seven fingers left. eastbank.
 
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Ole Sas is on the outdoor channel, runs around espousing the Old ways. ;)

I like Tracks but I'm not sure how much is BS, what say you OP?
 
I don't know. Do you think that really happened? When I try to watch these shows, the scripted "drama" is too much for me.


Maybe it's fake. I don't know. What do you think?
 
One of the four rule variants is never let the muzzle cover anything you can't fix a hole in.
New rule: never cover the muzzle with anything you can't fix a hole in.

The way he carries those guns over his shoulder like that is the problem, not the fact that the muzzleloader was capped. It is not hard to scenario walking through the woods with a bolt action like that and have branches swiping the safety off and hooking the trigger.
 
Nothing wrong with carrying a capped rifle or carrying one over the shoulder muzzle first, as long as the situation allows for doing it safely. Obviously it wouldn't be appropriate to every situation.
 
I searched all over and could find nothing on this.

Do you by chance remember the episode that he talks about it? Did this happen recently?
 
Well here is the first picture of the Sasquatch Mountain Man I found, and it does look like an accident waiting to happen if this is how he carries his rifle most of the time, although this picture looks staged

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yes he blew is finger off and it shows the bloody stub. he said it was lucky he did it as he had to come home from the hunt and he had a appendix attack several days later and said if he had the appendix attack on the hunt he may not have made it out. i like tracks across africa, but the hunts tony goes on and others are not for most people as most tv hunt shows are promotional to sell you on a hunt and are offered free or at a very reduced rate to the tv show hunters. you can go to africa at a good price if you hunt privite ranches and do your home work, the rand is at a good exchange rate right now. so only hunt places that take the rand instead of dollars, in june-july for my last hunt we got 14.51 rand to 1 dollar, this 49" kudu bull cost 4500 rand-310 US dollar. eastbank.
 

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Well you certainly do not cover the muzzle with your hand. And when moving or I should say struggling through thick brush or tress you move the rifle off your shoulder and carry it so the hammer or the trigger doesn't get caught and pulled by branches. Heck that's hunting 101.

Great pics Eastbank!!! Hunting in Africa is the ultimate. What rifle did you use?
 
I surely don't understand the reasoning for holding a rifle over your shoulder like that except for photo purposes. I don't think it would be comfortable or convenient, let alone safe.
 
I know not one, but two individuals who shot the end of their index finger off. Not by carrying the gun reversed but by a once-common handling quirk.

Back in the days when a good gun was polished blue steel or bright nickel plate, it was quite common hereabouts to see somebody handling a pistol by the butt with other forefinger in the crown so as to not leave fingerprints on the polished finish. If the gun happened to be loaded and if pressure happened to be applied to the trigger, the end of the forefinger disappeared in a hurry. One guy lost the end of his left forefinger, the other his right forefinger.
 
I surely don't understand the reasoning for holding a rifle over your shoulder like that except for photo purposes. I don't think it would be comfortable or convenient, let alone safe.
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It's comfortable, convenient and safe, if done properly. I don't see why that would be difficult to understand. :confused:
 
cz 550 in 375 H&H mag, a howa 300win mag and a howa 243. if its man made it can fail, i don,t want to be walking ahead of you when your doing the muzzle carry. as a matter of fact i would not hunt with you if you carried like that, nothing personal. eastbank
 
I'm not being disrespectful. But I've seen rifles carried like that at Ft. Gordon during training back in the 60's and 70's. Here's a few pics of GI's.
 

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i don,t want to be walking ahead of you when your doing the muzzle carry. as a matter of fact i would not hunt with you if you carried like that, nothing personal. eastbank
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Read post #14.

Nothing wrong with carrying a capped rifle or carrying one over the shoulder muzzle first, as long as the situation allows for doing it safely. Obviously it wouldn't be appropriate to every situation.
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If someone was walking in front of me, then obviously carrying like that wouldn't be appropriate, would it? That should be very obvious. In fact, whoever said that carrying in this manner somehow precluded rule #1???
 
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