Daughter in Law Mary Grace and I went hunting over the Christmas holidays trying to add to her successful marksmanship record and to the venison supply.

The first two times she has ever pulled the trigger on a rifle were last year when she downed two pigs in quick succession. This year she was going for venison and at 10:15 on the day before Christmas she struck. By the time I got out of the stand she was on the blood trail and when I stumbled down into the cane brake she yelled “she’s over here” and had found the doe. She has a perfect record so far, Three for three. Thus the title of this post. To say I’m extremely proud of her is an understatement. We have a tradition of having venison for Christmas lunch so the doe went right on the table.

I did the traditional honors with the makeup, we loaded the doe into the jeep, carried it to Freddie, and went back to the house for a celebratory pop of Scotch. It was nothing short of a wonderful day.