When you deer hunt with dogs, the guns are loaded. Yes, you risk a hole in the floorboard, but as long as you keep the barrel down, there is no threat to life.
If your claim was correct, there would not be a single deer hunter in the south left.
Both the truck owner and my brother said the trigger was untouched. The only mechanical input was the gun being settled on a padded seat.
I have some experience with the same gun, and it does other weird stuff as well. I wouldn’t trust it for hunting or defense. Mossberg is a better gun pump gun.
Also, no one I have known in the hunting world puts a loaded gun on a window rack. Now that’s crazy. You’re asking for a accidental beheading...
Explain to me — and I ask this seriously — why does one need to carry a shotgun in their vehicle with a round in the chamber when hunting deer with dogs? In many states, mine included, carrying a shotgun or rifle in a motor vehicle with a round in the chamber is a serious offense. In fact, the DEC will charge you with a felony for merely resting a shotgun or rife in battery against a motor vehicle.