The other day the girls rode out toward the woods behind the farmer`s field on horseback and when they weren`t more than a yard away, a gunshot rang out loud and clear. Surprisingly the horse`s didn`t react. The girls however were startled and very frightened. They spotted the hunter crouched low near the wood's perimeter but wasn't able to made eye contact as he was so focused on his hunt. I've told them before that whenever they are near the woods they are to be loud and obnoxious in order to let the hunter aware of their presence and also to force him out of the area since no hunter wants to stick around where there is too much commotion to scare off any potential kill. They proceeded to do that and sure enough when they turned back he was gone. But it scared me enough that I went out and bought a bag of these hunter`s vests. Stealing a line from one of my favourite Christmas movies, "I don't want to spend the holidays dead". Thank you very much.