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97-Year-Old Says She May Die With A Gun In Her Hand
WKRC ^ | 11/13/2012 | WKRC

Posted on 11/13/2012 10:29:08 AM PST by TSgt

There are certain things you expect to see in a 97-year-old woman's home and certain things you don't.

Katie Watson from Richfield, North Carolina is full of things you wouldn't figure.

She shot her first rabbit when she was 10 years old. To this day, she hunts quail and turkey but she's probably most proud of the fact that she's tagged 44 deer since she turned 80.

"How many men still hunt when they're 97?" she asks. If you wondered how she gets around in the woods, she takes an A.T.V.

Watson doesn't plan on slowing down any time soon.

"I'm a gonna be shootin' a gun till the day i die if i'm able," saud Watson.

Her nephew says it is an honor to know someone who has been hunting for her entire life.


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: banglist
Granny get your gun!

1 posted on 11/13/2012 10:29:11 AM PST by TSgt
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To: TSgt

Love it...,thanks!


2 posted on 11/13/2012 10:37:36 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: TSgt

I almost expected it to say she was a gang banger.

[Insert joke about arthritis and “real crip” gang sign.]


3 posted on 11/13/2012 10:39:41 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: TSgt

This is fantastic, what a great lady and role model!


4 posted on 11/13/2012 10:40:01 AM PST by Kolb (Compone Accomoda Supera)
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To: TSgt

5 posted on 11/13/2012 10:55:35 AM PST by TSgt (...voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.)
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To: TSgt

6 posted on 11/13/2012 10:56:44 AM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Chuckster

YOU have given me the only smile Ive had this week for a number of personal reasons - thanks


7 posted on 11/13/2012 11:09:44 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: TSgt

I know they’re good guns, buy man I think those Auto 5s are ugly!


8 posted on 11/13/2012 11:23:31 AM PST by green iguana
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To: PLMerite

This is a frightened city. Over these houses, over these streets hangs a pall of fear. Fear of a new kind of violence which is terrorizing the city. Yes, gangs of old ladies attacking defenseless fit young men.

Monty Python, And Now for Something Completely Different

Cheers,
The NappyOne


9 posted on 11/13/2012 11:36:48 AM PST by NappyOne
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To: TSgt

Every time I read about an intruder being shot in Texas, I read the article to see if it was my 86 year old aunt who did the shooting.


10 posted on 11/13/2012 1:04:34 PM PST by Twinkie (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)
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To: knittnmom

Relative of ours?


11 posted on 11/13/2012 1:57:15 PM PST by Ellendra (http://www.ustrendy.com/ellendra-nauriel/portfolio/18423/concealed-couture/)
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To: TSgt
Dagums and I thought my "granny dynamite" was a nasty one, passed at 89 but she was a real good shot.

Guess I can't tell you all why we called her that, but this made me laugh good and hard and after the last week or so, i needed it, thanks for posting

12 posted on 11/13/2012 3:13:47 PM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Karliner

definitely my kinda girl!!!!!


13 posted on 11/13/2012 4:17:34 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: TSgt

God bless her!


14 posted on 11/14/2012 2:14:58 AM PST by GVnana
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To: TSgt

God bless her!


15 posted on 11/14/2012 2:15:05 AM PST by GVnana
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To: green iguana
Ugly to some (most maybe) but the Humpback is one heck of a good shotgun.
Fascinating history...Browning Auto-5

I'll always have a spot for them, its what my Father used when I was growing up and hunting with him. A Belgian model made in 1958. Beautiful shotgun.
16 posted on 11/14/2012 5:38:48 AM PST by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
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To: Ellendra

LOL! Probably not, but she does remind me a bit of Granny Watson. (my great grandmother)


17 posted on 11/14/2012 8:04:44 AM PST by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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