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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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To: STONEWALLS

I’m in!


21 posted on 11/21/2010 4:37:29 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

“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.”

You mean a great day in the killing fields.
I have no problem with someone that goes to harvest a dear each year, but this is excessive greed.

It also touched a sore spot in me, remembering the days when I had a farm, east of Memphis.
I had to spend every weekend of hunting season, chasing filthy low life scumbag red neck poachers from Memphis, that were running wild over my farm.
The only thrill I got was taking a chain saw to their dear stands.


22 posted on 11/21/2010 4:38:33 PM PST by AlexW
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To: mylife

Yep. Also in W. Va. I drove through there some years back, and it was just scary how many of them there were.


23 posted on 11/21/2010 4:38:54 PM PST by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: driftdiver
perhaps she should just get her meat at the store where animals don’t get hurt, right?

Nah, she wouldn't be able to get the full enjoyment of killing an animal there. And she wouldn't be able to take a picture of it and brag about the number of points. And most of all, she wouldn't be able to impress her dad.
24 posted on 11/21/2010 4:39:07 PM PST by Krankor (It's good news week someone's dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating atmosphere)
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To: driftdiver
So what's your point?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

25 posted on 11/21/2010 4:39:41 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: AlexW

“I have no problem with someone that goes to harvest a dear each year, but this is excessive greed.”

Greed? What do you only eat part of the year?


26 posted on 11/21/2010 4:39:56 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

Point being thats a lot of money.


27 posted on 11/21/2010 4:40:44 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

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

It adds up depending on what you get done... get some jerky & sausage made, and it could come add up to $2k.


28 posted on 11/21/2010 4:41:56 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: Krankor

“Nah, she wouldn’t be able to get the full enjoyment of killing an animal there. “

Do you eat meat? Sounds like you’ve never hunted and have no idea what you are talking about.

Its a terrible thing for children to spend time with their dads isn’t it. Much better for them to be on facebook and gettin pregnant.


29 posted on 11/21/2010 4:42:25 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sacajaweau
Is taking 3 bucks in such a short period sporting?? Me thinks not.

Do you live in Wisconsin? Me thinks not..........

30 posted on 11/21/2010 4:42:42 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (There's only one cure for Obamarrhea......)
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To: wku man

Last year’s deer harvest in Wisconsin was over 329,000.


31 posted on 11/21/2010 4:43:09 PM PST by bigbob
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To: clee1
I call it putting meat in the freezer.

So do I and from the story it's absolutely legal. I'm surprised that some here that are conservatives would belittle this young lady. It's a shame that more young people can't get out in the woods with parents and relatives and experience putting food an the table.

32 posted on 11/21/2010 4:43:09 PM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: UB355

I wonder is she’d be willing to part with the backstraps on the 8-pointer?

*smacks lips at the thought of those tasty, tasty backstraps*


33 posted on 11/21/2010 4:43:41 PM PST by DemforBush (If I ever get back my blue jeans...Lord, how happy could one man be?)
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To: B Knotts

I grew up on the Oh Pa border.

They are laying all over the side of the road anytime of year.

Build a snow man and the carrot nose wont last the night.


34 posted on 11/21/2010 4:43:53 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: Sacajaweau

This requires a bit more ‘splainin don’t you think? No not the deer, your inference. If the boyz walked out in front of the young lady why not drop em?


35 posted on 11/21/2010 4:44:09 PM PST by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Foc nobama)
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To: Keith in Iowa

Mmmm....deer jerky...

*drools*


36 posted on 11/21/2010 4:45:04 PM PST by DemforBush (If I ever get back my blue jeans...Lord, how happy could one man be?)
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To: AlexW
Well, aren't we all judgmental and superior, then? I mean, since you spent all that time chasing the redneck hordes off your land east of Memphis, that means all hunters across the nation are all bloodthirsty redneck killers, right? Since you had a bad experience in west Tennessee, that means a teenage girl in Wisconsin must be cut from the same cloth, right? Or even me, in SW Idaho...I must also be a bloodthirsty poacher, too, I guess.

And just to set you straight, the only bloodthirsty killers here in Idaho are the Canadian gray wolves that have damn near wiped out the deer and elk population. So I guess they're rednecks, too, eh?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

37 posted on 11/21/2010 4:45:35 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: driftdiver

This was just on FNC and the $2K sounds like for taxidermy and processing for those 3 really nice bucks.


38 posted on 11/21/2010 4:48:36 PM PST by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Foc nobama)
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To: Keith in Iowa
Some of those butchers work magic with the meat!


39 posted on 11/21/2010 4:48:36 PM PST by mylife (Opinions $1 Half baked 50c)
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To: AlexW

and killing deer is good...

Somebody needs a lesson in where your food comes from..


40 posted on 11/21/2010 4:48:36 PM PST by macquire
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