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On deer hunting opening day, Hortonville teen, Corissa Wege, bags 3 bucks in one hour
Wisconsin Outdoor Fun ^ | 11/21/2010 | Kathy Walsh Nufer

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."


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1 posted on 11/21/2010 4:18:15 PM PST by UB355
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To: UB355
Is taking 3 bucks in such a short period sporting?? Me thinks not.

Someone needs a lesson in Sportsmanship.

2 posted on 11/21/2010 4:23:00 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: UB355

“On deer hunting opening day, Hortonville teen, Corissa Wege, bags 3 bucks in one hour”

I call that the thrill of killing, rather then sport.


3 posted on 11/21/2010 4:24:14 PM PST by AlexW
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To: Sacajaweau

according to Hoyle?


4 posted on 11/21/2010 4:25:19 PM PST by maxsand
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To: UB355

Someone is going to be eating venison for breakfast lunch and dinner.


5 posted on 11/21/2010 4:25:44 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: UB355
Sheesh...three deer on opening day? Here in Idaho, we're allowed only one all season long, thanks to the damn wolves that have depleted the deer, elk and moose herds. General (rifle) deer season last only three weeks. I love my state, but stories like this have me envying Wisconsin.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

6 posted on 11/21/2010 4:26:31 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: AlexW

That girl is sick.


7 posted on 11/21/2010 4:27:16 PM PST by Krankor (It's good news week someone's dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating atmosphere)
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To: wku man

I say good for the youngster. Maybe next he will get six “amish” in 2 days


8 posted on 11/21/2010 4:28:21 PM PST by maxsand
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To: AlexW
So don't hunt, then. But that's one helluva assumption you're making about a kid who just had a great day in the field.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

9 posted on 11/21/2010 4:28:36 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: Krankor

perhaps she should just get her meat at the store where animals don’t get hurt, right?


10 posted on 11/21/2010 4:29:05 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: wku man

I’m sure there’s plenty more road rats left where those came from.


11 posted on 11/21/2010 4:31:59 PM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: wku man

Trying to figure out what the guy is spending $2000 on. Doesn’t cost that much to have them butchered, does it?


12 posted on 11/21/2010 4:32:17 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I call it putting meat in the freezer.

“Sporting”????

The name of the game is killing deer. Can she help it if 3 deer walk up to her and practically beg to be shot?


13 posted on 11/21/2010 4:34:40 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: AlexW

it could also be called venison in the freezer free instead of beef that cost money


14 posted on 11/21/2010 4:34:53 PM PST by goat granny
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To: UB355

Who gutted those three deer?


15 posted on 11/21/2010 4:35:02 PM PST by McGruff (A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs)
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To: UB355

She took them with a muzzle loader.


16 posted on 11/21/2010 4:35:02 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: UB355

....time was, I would hunt all week and not get a shot at a deer ...this afternoon I sicced my Lab on two in the garden...they’re everywhere....it’s so bad in Virginia that the state dept of Fish & Game sent out post cards to former hunters....asking them if they would care to come back and hunt this Fall to thin out the deer population....and it’s not just Virginia...’hunter retention’ and ‘hunter recruitment’ are buzz words in all the state Fish & Game depts.


17 posted on 11/21/2010 4:35:38 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: goat granny

Looks like they are paying someone to butcher them so it aint free. kinda silly IMO


18 posted on 11/21/2010 4:36:23 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: B Knotts

Some people have no idea how thick they are up there.


19 posted on 11/21/2010 4:36:23 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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