Lee,
No reason to be sorry.....We can not emphasize the safety factors enough.....And just because you're old doesn't make you exempt from these rules either......Short story.....I was hunting geese with a friends dad. We were in a small blind when some honkers came in. In the process, I never heard his safety go off. I then ask him about when he disengages it. His response was "I hunt with my safety off".....WTF!....He then stated he had always done it this way.....My dog was also in this blind and his gun was propped up against the side between us.....I then told him, I would not hunt with him, if he didn't put it on.....He did.....But then started taking it off as we would see geese coming and actually forgot to put it back on once....Pretty $hitty lecturing an old guy about when to take the safety off.....THE SAFETY GOES OFF AS THE GUN COMES UP.....A simple thought process.
ps......Believe it or not, he was the 3rd person who had told they hunted with their safety off.....I now ask every new person, I'm around about that safety.....If they don't like it.....Too bad!