I have first hand experience with an AD. It was about 1979 or 1980 and the rifle was an unmodified Remington 700 ADL in 30-06. It started with a failure to discharge - I moved from safe to fire, took aim at a deer, squeezed the trigger, and...nothing. No click, just nothing. I carefully removed my finger from inside the trigger guard, eased the rifle away from my shoulder and turned it slightly to see if the safety was actually off and BOOM! I quickly worked the bolt to chamber another round and when I closed the bolt it discharged again. Neither my finger nor anything else was anywhere close to the trigger.

I never could duplicate the problem, but I later found out that Remington had a recall on some early 700's for that problem. By the time I heard about the recall, the rifle was long since traded away.

I do think it is unsafe to climb into any type of stand with a round chambered. My magazine is always loaded on my rifle, but I load it and push the round down into the magazine while I close the bolt. When I get into my stand, I then chamber the rifle.

That's my practice as well. I keep shells in the rifle clip, but I keep them separate until I reach the woods. I'll insert the clip before leaving the truck or ATV, but leave the chamber empty. Only after I'm in my stand do I chamber a round.

Then I complete everything in reverse and at the same times when I leave to go back to camp.

I also do just as yall, I have always felt comforable doing so. But in reality there in lies the problem. When we become comfortable doing things we sometimes have the tendency to think we already went through the motion. And thats when a mistake happens. Just two weeks ago I was at the range shooting my 7mag and my daughter inlaws 270. All my shooting life I never leave two bxs of rounds of differant cal on the bench at the same time. But this time I did. I always feed the rifle one round at a time. THis time I reached over and grabed a 270 round and fired it threw my 7mag. After a trip to harris methodist to have them remove the metal from my rt eye I am very grateful too still have my site. My point is when we think we have a safe procdure that we are sure we follow every time. We still need to double ck . Theres no rm for error with firearms. I ck my safty and Ick it again and again . I never leave two bxs of diff cal on bench. But I did. I didnt know that til my son walked into the er and said Dad I know what you did wrong. I said yes I took my safty glasses off right before I shot. Which is another thing I would have said I never do. He said no and held up the blown up caseing of the 270.

Sorry there is NO accidental discharges, just as you discribed. Glad no one was hurt.

only NEGLIGENT DISCHARGES huh DG?