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."
The hunter does that, after the tagging. You don't want to drag the weight that you have no use for.
But in terms of butchering the meat, there are food processing companies that do that for you. And you may want to use them if you don't have the proper equipment or skills. I know of a few nearby, but I don't hunt big game (don't need that much meat.)
“As far as you; you represent the worst of America - as in weak.”
No, I just get a thrill out of tweaking CLOWNS like yourself.
The hunting threads always bring out the worst of the killers.
It is interesting to watch.
lol
That is bizarre!
I know one old Texas boy that is an avid fisherman.
He goes to the UP to fish, I smile and nod knowingly.
Steelhead, Coho Salmon, Walleye, Rainbow trout...
I’m sure the game biologist know the population of game there and issue tags accordingly. There are just to many deer in many places. Sorry there are those hunters that don’t respect peoples property but that is not all hunters.
***I have no problem with someone that goes to harvest a dear each year, but this is excessive greed.***
The GAME AND FISH COMMISSIONs sets the limits on how many a person can shoot. You aught to see Arkansas’ limit, 4 in our zone. Two bucks and two does or four does!
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............
Oh booshwa!
Every year I shoot from 12 to 16 or so deer during two week season in North Central Michigan.
It keeps my family, my son's family and BIL's family well stocked with venison.
In addition, my BIL frequently will get predation permits for 10 deer during the summer, & ask me to whack 'em, which I gladly do.
He is an organic farmer and those brown furry harvesters cost him a buttload every year.
Wild turkeys are a problem too, but he hasn't figured out how to legally whack them....but I will be ready when he does.
>>>...but 3 in one day is excessive...<<<
Because you say so????
Your opinion is just that, and I think misguided.
Actually it doesn't.....It's the provocateurs such as yourself who get their rocks off dropping in for the attention they probably don't get at home.........
Sounds like you've discovered how to have a truly successful marriage... /g
If I make the drive from Macomb, would you care to share?
I have never heard someone that "legally" bagged three bucks. I tried reviewing the 2010 laws and I can not see where you can tag more than one buck, per season.
Any other Wisconsin hunters out there that can enlighten me? How did she legally kill three bucks in one season (much less, one hour).
I couldn't agree more...The hunting threads also bring out a few PETA and anti-hunting freaks from time to time, of course I don't know that's the case here. :)
If it's within the law, what's the problem? What's your acceptable limit on daily pheasant hunting or say fishing? More than one is greed in your book?
That price they quoted had to be including the weapons. Don’t know of any butchering that cost 500 each to hang and package a carcass...it just doesn’t add up, but then again I don’t know what a license cost in that state or if they also charge the hunter per head....
It costs $$$ to do that but if one can afford it, there's no better place in the world.......except maybe Lake St. Clair in S. E. Michigan for bass, muskie, sturgeon, perch and walleye.........
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