Before I was smart enough to use tape on my gun muzzle, I was in pursuit of a fair sized herd of elk. Wading through knee deep snow I took a digger. Wiping off the snow of my Winchester, I noticed the muzzle was full. With elk all around I had to sit down and use my Bic lighter to thaw the snow from my muzzle. By the time I got the muzzle clean, the elk were in the next county.