Spearo
Contributor
No, leave the safety in place!
Anybody that has been hunting more than ones knows that there is just NO TIME to remove the safety and hit your target at the right moment in most cases but the safety has many other uses like for exsample..when jumpimg off and hitting the water (unloaded) the water pressure hitting your trigger or your finger can push it back just enough that will discharge it, even if is NOT loaded. The last thing you want when entering the water (specially in a current) is to have to deal with a gun, a line, a shaft and maybe several other diving/hunting equipment all at the same moment specially during a bad drift condition over your hunting site. Keep that safety in the gun, you don't need to have it "on" when you hunt but it should be "on" before you hit the water at entry and again just before you get to the surface were you will have to deal with a number of other problems/situations before you're "set" after your dive.
Anybody that has been hunting more than ones knows that there is just NO TIME to remove the safety and hit your target at the right moment in most cases but the safety has many other uses like for exsample..when jumpimg off and hitting the water (unloaded) the water pressure hitting your trigger or your finger can push it back just enough that will discharge it, even if is NOT loaded. The last thing you want when entering the water (specially in a current) is to have to deal with a gun, a line, a shaft and maybe several other diving/hunting equipment all at the same moment specially during a bad drift condition over your hunting site. Keep that safety in the gun, you don't need to have it "on" when you hunt but it should be "on" before you hit the water at entry and again just before you get to the surface were you will have to deal with a number of other problems/situations before you're "set" after your dive.