“One shot, meat in the pot” (hunting saying)

“One shot—meat in the pot” is a hunting saying. ““Old meat-in-the-pot, here, got her in one shot” was cited in print in a 1924 novel,  The Ring-necked Grizzly, by Warren Hastings Miller. “One shot meat in the pot” was cited in print in 2004.

The saying is sometimes continued past “one shot.” “One shot, meat in the pot, two shots maybe not” was cited in print in 2007. “One shot, meat in the pot; two shots, maybe; three shots, seldom” was cited in print in 2008.
 
   
Google Books
The Ring-necked Grizzly
By Warren Hastings Miller
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company
1924
Pg. 63
“Old meat-in-the-pot, here, got her in one shot,” he added, patting the major’s rifle.
   
Muley Madness
one shot meat in the pot
Hey nice buck, but mine is bigger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He’s on my wall in the family room.
Posted by Guest on Tue Dec 7 07:58:22 2004
     
Bowsite.com
Miss a deer 3 times…..dummmm
By: Shuteye
Posted: 02-Sep-07
An old man in Maine once told me: “One shot, meat in the pot, two shots maybe not.”
 
AR-15.com
M1A4ME
Posted: 5/18/2008 9:38:54 PM
as to the number of shots fired - as the old folks say at home,
one shot, meat in the pot
two shots, maybe
three shots, seldom
   
ArcheryTalk Forum
Hunting Quotes and Sayings….
swamp stomper
December 1st, 2010, 06:08 AM
A good friend always said this and I always liked it, “One shot, meat in the pot!”
 
Google Books
Trafficking:
A Memoir of an Undercover Game Warden
By Tony H. Latham
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
Pg. ?:
“What ever happened to one-shot meat-in-the-pot Lubinski?” I laughed.