I'm not upset at all, Moon, and I hope I don't upset you when I say I think you're dead wrong, although Tim I don't know that the Castle Doctrine applies if you're wading in a creek, unless maybe it's running through your property. But it's just self defense, plain and simple. If you even think you're under threat of death or great bodily harm, you have the right to use deadly force, and all you have to prove is that "a reasonable person" would think they were being threatened, which he clearly was since his attacker produced a pistol. The only way he would end up in jail would be if he shot the other two unnecessarily.