Poll: Forward Assist or No

[BluntForceTrauma]

but like the old saying goes, 'You can't use it if you don't have it'.

Or as its corollary goes: "Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it."

Regarding the chamber check: I'm not really planning on staging an ambush on a column of VC soon, or raiding a meth lab, so the "correct" procedure is moot for me. Although lamrith makes a good point about using it hunting. Anyway, it raises the classic conundrum of what to do when both of your respected "experts" disagree?

P.S. Bonus Saying from old-time backwoodsman and wilderness survival guide Dick Person, now deceased: "The more knowledge you carry in your brain the less gear you need to carry on your back."