Dude.... I'm a rookie to this whole thing, and I almost hit the deck here in my safe dry cubicle when I saw that photo. The hunter ed course we took (that I could have grandfathered out of, but figured it was a great idea since I am as rookie to it as anyone born after the date) put the holy fear of all fears into us for muzzle control.
We were at a club's training day a couple years ago starting some pups with quartering drills, and sanding off the rough edges on a couple of our veteran dogs after a long off-season and one of the club members was extra eager to gun for us. I thought I might have heard a "click" just after I sent my dog out after a planted pigeon, but wasn't sure enough of myself to make a fuss... until he CROSSED MY DOG WITH HIS 12g. And yep, he had clicked off the safety when we started out. I went absolutely fsking bat$hit nutso on him, leashed my dog, and got the hell out of the field. He wouldn't talk to me for almost a year... until he got similar treatment from a different club member when he "peppered" the parking lot at another training day. And the 2nd person went much more nutso on his @ss than I had.
I figure that in theory, the police will go after someone who shoots
me... but I am the only enforcement to go after someone for shooting my dog. So I do.
He is no longer allowed to bring his gun to our training days. This, in my opinion, is the measured and proper response to *censored* like that. I adore my spouse, but repeated lack of muzzle control attention would end our hunting together days, which are without a doubt my favorite days in my entire life.
(1)My cousin would get maybe 1 or 2 stern warnings, and a 3rd time would be the last time I'd be anywhere with him/her with firearms in the same zipcode.
~ tracy, admittedly a rookie who was raised in an anti-gun, ambivalent-to-hunting family, so may have some over-cautious views...
(1) I also make sure that she knows that if she decides to murder me (and that would probably be justified 
) my only request is that she really mean it, and not to get caught. No sense in both of us having our lives ruined! LOL
