Here's One from Tommy!

When they were around 11 or 12 years old, dad and Uncle Tommy were down in Caroline County during hunting season with their dad, my PawPaw.  Some of the boys’ friends were also with them when someone, but they didn’t know who, shot a deer on their property.  PawPaw told Tommy and his friends to go drag the deer back over to them.  Tommy said they were dragging the deer by its antlers back toward the road when these strange men came running up yelling, “Hey!  That’s our deer!”  Tommy and his friends dropped the deer and took off running toward the road.  Meanwhile, my dad came out of the woods on the other side of the road and saw Tommy come tearing out of the woods.  PawPaw drove up and threw open the car door and told Tommy to get in and lock the doors, which Tommy did.  PawPaw was standing by the car with the door open, holding his double barrel shotgun by his side.  The men ran up yelling that they were gonna drag that kid out of the car and beat his ass to teach him a lesson.  PawPaw said, “You’re not laying a hand on that boy,” as he raised his gun.  The men kept walking forward shouting threats.  Tommy stayed put in the back seat as his daddy had told him to do.  PawPaw said to the men in an ‘I dare you’ tone, “Take one more step forward,” when they did, PawPaw clicked the safety off the gun.  Tommy said that was the loudest noise he’d ever heard in his life, when his daddy clicked the safety off that gun.  "I’m half Indian," growled PawPaw, "and if you take one more step, I’ll shoot you dead where you stand."  The men stopped.  At this point, the Game Warden and several State Police had come rolling in from both ends of the highway.  Tommy didn’t hear this part, but dad says the State Policemen were saying, “Mr. Glascock, please put the gun down.”

Finally, PawPaw put the gun down and the men went off with a few cops while PawPaw talked to another cop.  “What would you have done if it was your son?” PawPaw asked the cop.  “Mr. Glascock,” he replied, “I would have done the same thing.”

PawPaw told his boys that if those men had taken another step, he would have ended up in prison.