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."
3 legal antlered deer in one hour? and you possess the tags? you would not shoot? were you raised inside Dallas city limits?
This is a totally legit shoot. This is a once in a millenium shoot... to heck with planet x....
You will not read about this again for a long time...
This is like shooting two ‘locked-in’ bucks during post rut...
Hey girl, Nice Shot!
“that girl is sick”.
Go back to DU.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
You know Pop has to have that 13 pointer stuffed for his daughter.
Give that girl an M240 and send her to Afghanistan...
She is classy and America needs more like her.
As far as you; you represent the worst of America - as in weak.
Thanks for posting that. I didn't see it but that's more than possible, taxidermy is very expensive and three bucks could account for the better part of the $2K.
People who love the outdoors always fail to note that Sportsmen are the ones paying for their beautiful parks, and they are the first to be horrified that sportsmen use the lands.
Why is it greed if state hunting laws allow it? Could it be perhaps that the number of deer are accelerating so fast that something needs to be done about them?
I have no fondness for out of state "game experts" telling hunters what they should or should not kill........For what it's worth, both Michigan and Wisconsin are in the top ten states recording the most vehicle/deer collisions in the country.
The more deer killed by hunters the safer we will be on the highways.............
Because she kills her own food and you don't ?
now run off and have a good cry with the rest of the Peta bunny worshipers
I appreciate the job hunters do here in Pa. I am tired of dodging deer. As for the kid bagging 3 in a day its apparently legal where she lives and I have no problem with it.
Scouts out! Cavalry Ho!
That’s why I would do a European mount.
That said, Taxidermy aint cheap.
Its a major job.
They have NO IDEA how thick they are.
Yep, that's it! Daughter's first bucks, why not?
The deer have become so despondent over the direction Obama’s taking the country they’ve started committing suicide by hunter... /g
“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.”
I said that the harvesting of a deer is fine, for those that get the thrill, but 3 in one day is excessive, and I question someone that gets their jollies out of killing that much.
I never said that ALL are bloodthirsty redneck poachers,
but maybe YOU are. I have plenty of friends that are “sportsmen hunters”.
It really is only your opinion that you think not “sporting”. If the deer are that thick they need to cull more deer. There are to many deer in my neighborhood too and they are a nuisance.
Seeing how it's a proud daddy, I'm guessing there will be three new mounts on the wall soon...and THAT ain't cheap.
*** to thin out the deer population....and it’s not just Virginia***
Fifty five years ago it was very rare to see a deer in NW Arkansas. I saw my first deer here in 1971. Today they are everywhere!
We saw a herd of over seventeen near here not long ago and I have seen fourteen in my pasture at one time. I see deer almost every day. Last night there were three in back of my chicken pen.
I could limit out if I wanted to by opening my back window and shooting from the warmth of my den, then make the wife go get them! ;-D
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