Prancers cousin, Virginia Whitetail while taking a leisurely walk up the eastern slope of Short Hill Mountain in Hillsboro Virginia, fell victim to a gun shot wound to the neck. Based on the wound path, it appears the assailant was lying in wait perched in one of several hundred trees in the area. Authorities believe the Deer was specifically targeted in that there were others in the general area who were unharmed. The Deers relationship to Prancer is under investigation as a possible motive for the shooting.
The ambush is believed to have occurred between 7:35 and 7:38 am. Based on eyewitness accounts from other Deer present at the ambush, the assailant is a Big Ugly Camouflaged Guy with a bunch of guns.

The problem with Venison as sausage without pork or beef fat is it is A. hard to keep together in any form minus a casing and B. it tends to cook up dry , again lacking any fat.

I usually have mine made into Sweet Italian links.

http://patriotroom.com/did-one-woman-in-virginia-just-bring-down-the-somali-pirates/

Before Stoner threatens to shoot me again…, I must tell you. I may be the only Loudoun County citizen who entered the Fauquier County Izzak Walton League Turkey shoot, and won. Now that oughta give ole Stoner a clue.

If at some point you have move Bambi than you can use, especially the jerky kind, I would love a bite. Bambi is sooo delicious!

I just need a place to find him where I can shoot him!

Brian

Speaking of the thick of it, that is where you will find a lot of Vietnam vets when it comes to supporting the troops to the max in Iraq, despite all the political contentiousness involved with that conflict. I may no longer be the young guy I once was, but, to quote a famous author of long ago, this old hound still has teeth and those teeth can still bite. I swear that if I ever see any of our young Iraq veterans disrespected by the current anti-war crowd in way we were, those teeth will start biting in remembrance of all those young Marines in those stretchers on that hospital floor.

That said, I went back and did a little checking. I apparently did misremember a bit on that photo. The family of the Police Chief was not the one killed. It was the family of one of his deputy commanders and a very close friend in Saigon. Story goes that the VC in the picture was part of an urban assassination squad directed at the families of police officials. They reportedly attacked the deputy commander’s family with machetes and sliced up the mother, father, and children in their own kitchen, along with a lot of other people in the area. The Chief was apparently reacting out of extreme anger, sorrow, and frustration. He paid personally for that photo for the rest of his life.

Eddie Adams, the AP photographer who took the principal photo, was initially skeptical about the South Vietnamese version of the story but then claimed to have verified it himself. He began opining that he or anyone else might have been sorely tempted to do the same thing as the Chief under those terrible circumstances. Adams actually claimed that he apologized to the Chief years later because one photo ruined the guy’s life after being flashed across the world without an explanation of the circumstances. THAT you can actually chalk up to chaps like Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man in America”, who somehow failed consistently to give us all the “other side of the story.”

All said and done, that photo and the little girl/napalm thing were indeed critical to the rapid change of sentiment in this country with regard to the war…along with Cronkite’s stupid assessment that Tet signaled defeat for us, even though the US/ARVN counterattack virtually wiped out the VC and forced the North Vietnamese Army to take over the bulk of the fighting.

The flaming monks I couldn’t have cared less about. They were “useful idiots” to the VC and North Vietnamese. Same goes for those pampered, wealthy, stupid students at the university in Saigon who, having wangled their way out of the South Vietnamese draft, were always agitating and rioting against the war. I often wonder how many of them wound up in “re-education” camps or worse after 1975 or, if they were lucky, escaped on those small boats, many of which sank at sea with terrible loss of life because the U.S. Navy was ordered to stand by and not help them.

Shooting domesticated animals is a major no-no, as it is destruction of private property. Caribou, on the other hand, is mighty tasty..

G, where you going hunting ?

Oh yes I do, my Cracker Ass will be hunting for Prancers Virginia Cousins tomorrow and Friday. These days will be all about venison sausage. If my Cracker Ass is successful, maybe I can have some bambi jerky ready for distribution at the
NVTH Festivus for the Restivus!

Don’t worry reindeer, these guys have no interest in killing beasts with FOUR legs. Tell Santa to “Ho! Ho! Ho!” real loud as there are plenty of loaded .357s on bed side tables. And watch out for the local slasher – he could be ANYWHERE….

And judging by the street celebration one sees in the Middle East periodically, gun control is not an issue in the region.