Yet you claim to have killed a deer with one?That wasn't a claim, it was a pot shot.
(don't stick your neck out or you'll get shot down)
Nothing more, nothing less.
That's some more of that reading between the lines, just like the "shooting rats in the barn" is another euphemism.
And the game goes on...
I forgot...it was politely intended.
(don't stick your neck out or you'll get shot down, dear deer)
See?