I only read the initial post, no sense wasting time reading arguements.
Just a few thoughts.
1. How do you not double and triple check your keys for transporting the most valuable piece of luggage you have...your gun.
2. Once you borrowed a gun, how do you not shoot it before you go hunting with it?
3. Why shoot your decoy?
4. the weather dealt you a bad hand, how is that the outfitters fault? Did you want them to snow blow a path to your stands? Deep snow can kill the deer movement.