The headline should be "man ambushed and assaulted by sapling".
“LOL, A fellow in Kingsport Tennessee went out west week before last on a hunting trip, walking in a bunch of saplings, one pulled the hammer back on his pistol and shot him in the foot. Guess the old boy didn’t know the one about a live round under the hammer.”
If the chamber under the hammer was empty, he would have still been shot. Cocking the hammer rolled it to the next chamber. Keeping the first two empty gets you down to 3 or 4 shots. How about a better holster to protect the hammer?