OT: WVU mascot told to stop firing his musket at wild animals

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/12/07/west-virginia-mascot-musket.ap/index.html?sct=hp_t2_a10&eref=sihp 

West Viriginia Univ. told its Mountaineer to stop using his musket to hunt after he posted a video online of himself kiling a black bear with the gun.  He fires it at home games without any ammunition, but it is, obviously, a working weapon, and it's apparently a WVU mascot tradition to go hunting with it.  Maybe I'm tired because it's Friday, but this strikes me as...interesting. 

EDIT:  I encourage the reader to think not of gun rights or animals and instead to imagine the man below, dressed as he is, sneaking through the woods yelling "Go Mountaineers!" has he shoots a gun that has been outdated since before the Civil War.  Apologies to those who are offended for gun owners, or animals, or gun-owning animals.