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the SperryviUe Comer Store, where he called the Rappahannock County Sheriff’s Department to report the shooting.
Mr. Price said that he first met Mr. Selvage on the trail about 4:56, and that the shot was fired “about 10 minutes later.”
After establishing that sunset on Dec. 26 — according to Sperryville weather-watcher Dennis Wingfield’s records (introduced into evidence) —was 4:57 p.m., Mr. Luke asked about the light at the time the shot was fired.
“If it had been me, I wouldn’t have shot,” Mr. Price replied. “It was too dark to have shot a highpowered rifle.”
He added that he had hunted up and down the mountain all day; that he had heard no shots and had not taken any shots himself. “I picked up Ricky’s gun, and unloaded it when I put it in the rack in my pickup. It was a .22 Magnum — it had not been fired.”
Under cross-examination by Mr. Selvage’s attorney, Bill Fletcher, Mr. Price said that he had a permit from Clifford Miller’s farm manager, Eddie Jenkins, to bowhunt deer in Mr. Miller’s orchard. He added that Mr. Fletcher’s father had showed him the truck track through a cow pasture which provided access to the top of Turkey Mountain — near where the shooting occurred.
Mr. Price said that when the three men left Page County to come to hunt that morning, he was carrying a .243 rifle, Mr. Knott had a .270, and Mr. Gray had a .30-.30. He said that Mr. Gray told them that he had taken several shots at deer during the morning, and when they returned to Luray for lunch, he exchanged the .30-.30 for a .22 Magnum because hev had only one
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