Big game. (Exercising the Right).

On December 22nd of last year, semi-retired tire store operator David Coiner of Hickory Grove, South Carolina, started out in his all-terrain vehicle to hunt deer as he often does on weekend afternoons. In less than 30 minutes, however, he returned with even more important game: a suspected burglar. Sheriff's deputies had been looking for the suspect since the previous day, when one of Coiner's neighbors returned home and surprised two men attempting to break in. Both suspects ran. One was quickly apprehended, but the other escaped into the woods.

Family members had told Corner about the burglary. When he came across a man whom he suspected was the culprit, he did not have to tell the suspect to raise his hands. The hunter told the Rock Hill Herald for December 24th that the man "did that of his own accord when he saw my rifle." Comer marched his quarry back to his house and kept him on the driveway until deputies arrived.

Though somewhat disappointed at not bagging a deer, Corner told Herald reporter Susan J. Stabley that he felt it was worth it to apprehend someone who may have posed a threat to his neighbors. "I'm glad he was caught, even though it did mess up my hunting trip." Asked if he was afraid when he first confronted the suspect, he assured Stabley that he was not. After all, he recalled, "I had the gun and he didn't."