yup, the cars i pass all year long on the way home when it's light(twenty miles of corn and wheat fields, etc) i hide behind from the first week in november till it gets light enough again to see...
Posted on 11/21/2010 4:18:08 PM PST by UB355
On deer hunting opening day, Hortonville teen, Corissa Wege, bags 3 bucks in one hour
By Kathy Walsh Nufer For Wisconsinoutdoorfun.com
DALE — Anyone who wonders if this is a good year for deer hunting need only ask Corissa Wege, 16, of Hortonville, or Wayne Freimuth, 53, of Black Creek.
For them, the thrill of the hunt couldn't get any better than what they experienced Saturday on opening day of Wisconsin's annual nine-day gun deer season.
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Wege bagged three bucks — a 13-pointer, a 10-pointer and an 8-pointer — all within one hour.
"It was really cool," Wege said. "That will probably never happen again. I couldn't believe it."
"They're out there," said a jubilant Freimuth, showing off his prize 12-point buck he was certain would tip the scales at 200 pounds.
"Isn't it amazing, me getting this one and a 16-year-old getting three bucks?" said Freimuth after congratulating Wege. "I told her she's awesome, and she will never top that. They are going to call her dead-eye from now on."
Wege arrived at the Mini-Mart about 10:30 a.m. with her three bucks.
She had been hunting west of Hortonville since 5:30 a.m. with a party of family friends and relatives, including her dad, Tom Wege, who had bagged a 12-pointer while bow hunting earlier this fall.
"They're huge," said Tom Wege, describing how she shot her first buck at 7 a.m. and had just enough time to reload her gun before shooting the second, followed quickly by the third.
"We're done," he laughed. "I took the gun away from her and told her to stop. Between mine and her deer, this is going to cost me $2,000."
Corissa said it was fun to impress her dad with not one, but three deer. "He's pretty much proud of me whenever I go hunting, but this is special," she said.
Freimuth got lucky hunting near Outagamie County M outside Hortonville.
"There was a lot of shooting out there between 6 and 7:30 a.m. — a lot of deer. After a couple not so good years it seems a lot better this year," he said.
"I shot this one at exactly 8:30 a.m. The woods were so dry and crisp. I could hear him and then all I could see was antlers coming. It was only a 15-yard shot and I dropped him in his tracks. It is the biggest deer I've ever seen in the woods — and I've been hunting nearly 30 years."
Other hunters stopped by Freimuth's truck to admire the buck, comment on the massive rack of antlers and take photos with their cell phone cameras.
"That's a beautiful deer," said Lance Simonis, of Hortonville, as he arrived with the doe he had just shot. "That's a buck of a lifetime."
Lauren Main, manager of Dale's Mini-Mart, said she had registered only about six deer until Wege and Freimuth showed up. Within the next half hour she had registered a total of 16.
Over at Colwitz's Convenience Store in Shiocton, Dylan Van Straten had registered 58 deer as of 11:30 a.m. "Last year we ended up with a total of 164 opening day and we should be well above that this year," he said.
Dick Nikolai, a wildlife biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources checked the teeth of new arrivals to gauge their age and said he was seeing a good range of ages up to 4 and 5 years old and had seen a fair number of deer when he was out hunting earlier.
"Last year was warmer, very quiet and the deer could sneak through easily. This year it's crisp and frosty and the deer are moving. Last year they weren't moving."
As Nikolai checked a buck brought in by Ryan Murray, 15, of Germantown, Murray described his morning in the woods with his cousin Pete Omholt, of Shiocton.
"It was fun. It really got your heart pumping. It's a good day for hunting."
Two years ago my wife got a small doe with her week old mustang here in S TX. $3500 worth.
Of course you read the comment I posted, so it’s disingenuous of you and demonstrates a lack of honor on your part to pretend you didn’t. And you also realize it was a civilized response.
Up until last year, I would occasionally process my own deer and hogs, just for the satisfaction of doing so, and I'd borrow the grinder and slicer from a friend of mine.
Last year I took a deer to the local guy that, after skinning, weighed 210 pounds. I got 55 pounds of meat back and it wasn't the cuts that I had instructed be done. Clearly it wasn't my deer or my order. Somebody got a few boxes of really nice venison.
I bit my lip and bought the grinder/sausage stuffer, slicer, and smoker, and began processing all of our game. We already had an area in one of our sheds set up to hang and age the meat before taking it to be processed.
I'm having a blast so far, but it is a lot of work and I'm not as fast doing the butchering as someone who has been doing it for a living.
yup, the cars i pass all year long on the way home when it's light(twenty miles of corn and wheat fields, etc) i hide behind from the first week in november till it gets light enough again to see...
"Comment #62 Removed by Moderator"
However, thanks to our FRiend Hot Tabasco, I was able to derive a little of what you had said. Let me turn your attention to post #70:
You
"By the same token, who are you to pass judgment on Keith Olbermann or Michael Steele? Do you know them or their family"
Hot Tabasco
"What the F does Olbermann or Steele have to do with deer hunting? If you have to resort to off topic tactics then maybe it's time you leave this thread............"
70 posted on Sunday, November 21, 2010 6:13:55 PM by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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So, my honor, integrity, credibility and conscience are all unblemished, sorry to tell you. You, on the other hand, are still dodging my question: what exactly did you say in post #62? Hmmmmmmmm?
By the way, do they play dodgeball in Moldova? I bet you'd be really good at it, given your demonstrated talent at dodging questions.
Really, you're making this too easy. I do like a little challenge, you know.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
No meat is ever wasted by those who play by the rules...
If one is not willing to slay and harvest flesh, one does not deserve to eat it... I hold this truth near to my heart or the mashed potatoes, whichever is closest...
God Bless, and go kill something, it is delicious...
You sully the name you have chosen...
And you have no clue...about "Sportsmanship".
I laugh.
Hey!
+1 on ‘back porch’ processing! Nevermore on the deer grinder!
I will never look back!
Its not easy, but its fun... and tasty!
Do you hunt deer?
I wonder if he and his daughter were out of state....and being guided??? OR...he figures he's having some mounted?
Happy hunting, my FRiend. I’ve got an absolutely brute of a ten point on one of my trail cams and it is on a part of my property that I have restricted to bow only. Hopefully I’ll get to post a photo of me with my hands on his antlers. I love this sport!
Butcher near me is offering to make summer sausage..and some other sausage...plus the rest deer burger...for $110 a deer.
I figure that's a decent deal...if you take a 180 lb deer in.....
That’s great!
And your Code Pink or PETA side got in the way of your brain...on this one.
Do you have any idea what the "limits" are in most states?
Grab a clue....while you can.
$110 per deer makes sense. $500 / deer not so much.
“Do you hunt deer?”
Only 2 legged dears ;)
I did try to save a very young doe that had been shot in the hip by a poacher, but it died after a few days.
What is the difference?
LOL!!!
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