Just my 2 cents, I never put a loaded gun in my safe. Never. Just a safety precaution on my part.
Myself, I would not store a BP rifle loaded. My brother kept his Hawken loaded more than half way thru the season and when he finally got to pull the trigger on a nice buck it just went SNAP and of course the buck took off. He got back to camp and the third cap set the charge off. This was a loose 90gn Pyrodex load.
Why take the chance?
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