I'd say that was a classic bonehead mistake.. People have to live and learn. I would be razzing the devil out of that fool for a long time to come. Every time he'd walk by me I'd make a "puff" sound and smile at him....

I have a better one. I went over to a friends farm the second to the last day of muzzleloader season here,and told him to grab his smoke pole and we would try to walk one up. He then turned kind of red and said, he checked his Kentucky rifle theday before,and for some reason (unknown to him) it was all full of rust inside andoutside of the barrel. I told him cleaning them at the end of season is a good way to stop that. He told me he did, but I decided I did not want to argue with him. So I told him, grab your wife's little Bobcat and we can still make the afternoon. He then took me to the workshop and showed me the two rusted rifles...

I told him to have a nice day and went out on my own... Now that is a boneheaded mistake. People, after season ends, unload and clean your rifles.....