Gun-rights advocates already lobbying Texas legislators

Posted Friday, Nov. 26, 2010

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By Anna M. Tinsley

atinsley@star-telegram.com

There's a call to arms in Texas.
Or at least a call to let Texans carry their guns -- whether concealed or out in the open -- at colleges and pretty much anywhere else they'd like in this state.
 
Less than two months before the Texas Legislature reconvenes in January, gun advocates are already asking state lawmakers for proposals geared to give gun owners more freedom.
 

"In Texas, there's no viable reason why Texans are denied their rights the way they are," said John Pierce, co-founder and spokesman of opencarry.org, a group championing expanded gun rights nationwide. "We're talking about a tradition and history of rugged individualism that Texas embodies.

 

"For them to be off mainstream America with this, it's a shame."
 
Several gun bills have already been filed, including measures to allow guns at colleges, temporarily exempt guns and ammunition from sales taxes and exempt guns, ammunition and gun parts made in Texas from federal regulation.
 
Pierce said there's no bill filed yet to make Texas an open-carry state, allowing gun owners to freely and openly carry firearms wherever they go. But he and others who could not find lawmakers to file such a measure in 2009 are working to change that.
"I'm very optimistic," Pierce said. "I am optimistic that even if it doesn't happen in 2011, it will happen in 2013 or 2015."
 
Brian Malte said he hopes that Pierce is wrong. He said he and others at the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence say they are keeping an eye on gun-related bills in Texas.
 
"We expected to see a slew of pro-gun bills coming down the pike," said Malte, the group's director of state legislation. "But the bills are a bit extreme. ... We'll do our best to derail all of them."
 
Here's a look at some proposals state lawmakers may consider next year:
 
Open carry
 
Texas is one of seven states -- along with Arkansas, Illinois, Florida, New York, Oklahoma and South Carolina -- where handguns cannot legally be worn in plain view in any form. Texas residents may carry concealed handguns if they have a permit.
Supporters say open carry is needed because under the concealed-carry law, gun owners can get in trouble for displaying their weapon even inadvertently, such as if a jacket blows back enough to show a gun. More than 66,000 people have signed an online petition asking Gov. Rick Perry and the Legislature to make Texas an open-carry state.
 
Pierce said he hopes to have two versions of the bill to give lawmakers a choice. One version would require Texans to have a permit to carry their weapons openly. The other would require Texans to have a permit to carry concealed weapons but would allow open carry without a permit.
 
"The number of states that don't allow any form of open carry are dwindling," Pierce said. "For Texas to be one of the last holdouts on a gun issue, it just seems un-American."
 
Katherine Cesinger, deputy press secretary for Perry, said: "The governor believes that a person ought to be able to carry their weapon with them anywhere in the state if they are licensed and have gone through the proper training. He would be open to looking at any proposals lawmakers bring to the table regarding open carry."
Malte said that proposal wouldn't be best in Texas, which has so many large urban areas.
 
"I think it's kind of a crazy idea for people to be openly carrying on crowded buses or shopping malls," he said. "Perhaps in more rural areas it might not be as extreme. But for law enforcement, this could be a very troubling scenario."
Guns on campus
 
This issue, which failed in 2009, is expected to be reintroduced in the next legislative session.
 
At issue is whether to allow concealed handgun permit holders 21 and older to carry guns into college and university buildings, dormitories and classrooms. The proposal began gaining attention after the 2007 shooting at Virginia Tech, which left more than 30 dead.
 
"This is another area of the law where there would be a large public policy benefit to supporting this," Pierce said. "Hopefully this will pass as well. It would be a valuable thing."
 
Utah is the only state to allow students to carry concealed weapons at colleges.
Advocates say such a law would keep students and employees safe in Texas. Opponents say allowing guns on campus could create more danger and even boost suicide rates. Republican state Rep.-elect David Simpson of Longview filed the measure.
 
Malte said he hopes that those who helped kill the bill in 2009 are active again.
 
"The sheer extreme nature of arming college students caught people's attention and took them off guard," he said. "Quite a few folks thought that would pass."
 
Constitutional carry
 
Some gun rights advocates hope that Texas lawmakers next year will follow in the footsteps of Arizona, Alaska and Vermont by making Texas a constitutional carry state, allowing concealed and open carry without permits.
 
Members of the new Lone Star Citizens Defense League are trying to find legislative support for such a proposal.
 
"Constitutional carry will basically enable Texans to carry a firearm for their personal defense without state regulation," said Shane McCrary, 38, of Odessa, who is helping spearhead the effort. "Nothing is really getting done in the state of Texas to enable our rights as honest citizens.
 
"My goal is that the soccer mom who has to go shopping or downtown -- or anywhere she needs to go -- should be able to carry a firearm in her purse so she can defend herself," he said. "We want constitutional rights for firearm ownership. If you haven't committed a crime, any place you want to be, you should have the right to carry your firearm."
 
Opponents say the proposal contradicts the reasoning that was behind concealed-handgun licensing -- which requires background checks, tests and training -- when it passed in 1995.
 
"Now they're saying, 'We're kidding,'" Malte said. "They're saying, 'We don't think anyone needs training or testing or background checks.' It's a recipe for disaster."
 
Other proposals
 
A few other proposals touch on taxes and federal regulation of guns.
 
A bill filed by Rep. Sid Miller, R-Stephenville, would add handguns, rifles, shotguns and ammunition to the list of back-to-school items that can be bought tax-free during the tax-free weekend.
 
Another would exempt guns, ammunition and gun parts that are made, sold and kept in Texas from federal regulation, including gun registration, dealer licensing rules and buyer background checks. State laws would still apply, according to the bill filed by Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, R-Parker.
 
The goal, some lawmakers have said, is to test Texas' sovereignty in relationship to the federal government. And it could lure small-gun manufacturers to Texas to make certain types of ammunition, parts and weapons that would be sold only in Texas.
 
"States don't get to pick and choose which federal laws they do and don't get to enforce," Malte said. "This is just another bill in a litany of bills that cross the logic line for most Americans."
 

Online: To sign or see the petition seeking open carry in Texas, go to www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?texasoc.

For more information about the Lone Star Citizens Defense League, go to lonestarcdl.org.

Anna M. Tinsley, 817-390-7610


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Michigan grandmother bags 5-point buck at age 76
The Associated Press

Friday, November 26, 2010; 5:18 PM
PORT HURON, Mich. -- Bea Leach has no idea why she enjoys deer hunting, but at 76 years old the Macomb County grandmother always is ready for firearms season.

Leach tells the Times Herald in Port Huron that on opening day she took her second deer - a five-point buck.

The Richmond resident said that as a child she watched her father take target practice.
Leach hunts from a shack at the rear of her property about 35 miles northeast of Detroit. She took her deer about 15 minutes after her son shot an eight-point buck on Nov. 15. Her 14-year-old grandson also took a deer this year.

Zachary Leach said it's "cool" that his grandmother hunts because "you don't really hear or see any grandmas that are 76 and still shooting deer."
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How a London photographer’s air pistol came to be used in one of cinema’s most iconic posters

By Nigel Horne

 

LAST UPDATED 10:27 AM, NOVEMBER 26, 2010

 

One of the most famous pistols in movie history - the one held by Sean Connery in the iconic poster for the 1963 Bond film From Russia With Love - was sold at auction in London yesterday, fetching £277,250. It was ten times the estimate Christie's had put on it.

The gun has a fascinating history - not least because it was a total fake.
As every James Bond fan knows, agent 007 carried a Walther PPK. When Bond is first handed the weapon in Dr No, the Secret Service armourer Boothroyd - only later re-christened Q - informs him: "It has a delivery like a brick through a plate glass window."

But when Sean Connery and his handlers from United Artists arrived at the photographer's studio to do the publicity shots, midway through shooting the second film, From Russia With Love, they forget to bring the weapon with them.

Luckily the photographer, David Hurn, who worked for the famous Magnum agency, was a keen target shooter and kept a Walther LP-53 air pistol in his studio.
Hurn told The First Post this morning: "I took the film's publicist, Tom Carlile, to one side and said, 'Don't worry, we can use this. No one will know and they can airbrush the long barrel later'."

Once the photoshoot at Hurn's studio in the shadows of Chelsea football ground was over - it involved five girls as well as Connery - the prints were duly sent off to the designers.

There was only one problem: the message never got through about the airbrushing. Which is why the posters show 007, licensed to kill, holding an air pistol that would never stop a Smersh agent and certainly did not possess "a delivery like a brick through plate glass window".

Hurn told The First Post that he went on using the pistol for target shooting for several years after the session with Connery. He also went on to do more shoots with Tom Carlile, most notably the equally iconic publicity shots of Jane Fonda in Barbarella.
About 10 years ago, Hurn sold the pistol at Sotheby's for £14,000.

When I broke the news to him this morning that it had just fetched £277,250, he was sanguine. "It's not really surprising, I suppose. The image was used for three or four Bond films so the gun is really well known. And anything a little bit kooky like this seems to attain a huge value these days.

"Still, £277,250 would have been handy." 

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Handguns are forever

Thanks to the Minneapolis law firm Winthrop and Weinstine, the Walther PPK handgun now carries trademark protection as the official "James Bond handgun.".

 

 

Thanks to the Minneapolis law firm Winthrop and Weinstine, the Walther PPK handgun now carries trademark protection as the official "James Bond handgun." The law firm's intellectual property group, led by attorney Karen Brennan, won a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruling for the designation after an initial rejection. German client Carl Walther GmbH wanted the distinction lionized by the patent office, claiming the gun had a "definite aura" and "mystique" about it. Walther owners take note: It's a patent designation, not a license to kill.

SC's Black Friday sales include some tax-free guns

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Gun buyers can save a few bucks this weekend during the South Carolina's third annual Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday.
Shoppers looking for some handguns, rifles and shotguns won't have to pay sales tax Friday through midnight Sunday during "Second Amendment Weekend."
Accessories like ammunition, black powder, holsters and archery supplies are taxed. There also is no exemption for antique and collectible handguns, as well as handguns that do not fire a fixed cartridge.
South Carolina holds a tax break weekend for back-to-school items in August.

Deer Hunting with Wolves

By BOB CAMPBELL
FREE PRESS BUCK POLE MANAGER

Like most buck poles, enthusiasm waned after Opening Week, but some fresh pics (even if they were from bucks killed last month) came in today for Bob’s Michigan Buck Pole.

Dave Thomas, 29, of Sterling Heights and founder of the Web site, bowhunterplanet.com, got his 7-point buck in northern Macomb County on Oct. 15 with a Darton bow. He was hunting on 20 acres of private land. He’d missed a shot at a 4-pointer shortly before getting a 15-yard broadside chance and nailed it.

He was headed out today for another afternoon hunt in Macomb County. We’ll let you know if his luck continues.

Meanwhile, Thomas’ friend, Ron Reslow, 29, an electrician from New Baltimore, got the bigger buck on the first day of the bow season, Oct. 1, in Tuscola County.

Thomas also reported that his father-in-law hunted last week near Deerton, midway between Marquette and Munising near Lake Superior, and watched a pack of wolves sneak by. Another hunter in the same party had a wolf pack walk by within 30 yards.

“He said it was just amazing. It made it totally worth the trip,” Thomas said.

As a former Alaska governor would say, “You betcha.”

Thirty years ago, I was bow hunting near Grayling in mid-December and had a large coyote walk up within 6 feet of me. I had heard it coming behind me and assumed it was a deer. We were both plenty surprised when I turned around.

Gun season ends Tuesday, and I’m hoping to get a few more great stories before we take down the buck pole until next year. E-mail bcampbell600@freepress.com and tell me about your hunt and yourself.

And be sure to check out the buck pole on Facebook.

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Pink is the new hunting color.

Basically, we are seeing a trend of an increasing numbers of female hunters

November 22, 2010|By Sam Doyle | Outdoor Web Staff

PINK!!

The new hunting color?

Now, I know what you are thinking. Trebark, Outfitter Tuff, Realtree, Mossyoak, Woodseye and any other version of camouflage, those are the colors of any good hunter. But if you think pink is not a hunting color, I have to ask, “Where have you been?”

Pink is adorning many things in the outdoor world.  Camo, bows, fletching, broadheads, muzzleloaders, UTVs and a lot of fishing equipment are all sporting pink these days.

The “pink movement” has been driven by one thing: The increase of women realizing what most outdoors-men already knew, IT’S FUN!!  

They are finding that a day in the woods or on the water can bring the hustle and bustle of a normal (or abnormal) week back into perspective. Plus it is a great way to get a little more “you and me time” with your other half.

 

More women taking to the outdoors is backed by the most recent survey done by the National Sporting Goods Association. The Illinois based NSGA has provided its members, the rest of the sporting goods industry and the general public with up-to-date information on a wide variety of sports since 1929.

According to NSGA report, “Sports Participation in 2009–Shooting Sports” total hunters in the U.S. decreased slightly (.05 percent) between 2008 and 2009, the number of female hunters increased by 5.4 percent, netting 163,000 new participants. Growth areas for women included muzzleloading (up 134.6 percent), bowhunting (up 30.7 percent) and hunting with firearms (up 3.5 percent).

Data also show women outpaced men among net newcomers to target shooting with a rifle, where female participation grew by 4.1 percent.

“New hunters, shooters and anglers are a good thing for everyone who loves the outdoors,” said Denise Wagner of Wonders of Wildlife museum in Springfield, Mo., the official home of NHF (National Hunt Fish) Day. “Hunting and fishing license sales, combined with special taxes on firearms and ammunition, bows and arrows, and rods and reels generate about $100,000 every 30 minutes, totaling more than $1.75 billion per year, for conservation. When it comes to funding for wildlife and wild places, more is definitely better.”

The growth in new participation among women is no surprise to Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the shooting, hunting and outdoor industry.

He explained, “Over the past several years, our industry has worked hard to help build this segment of our market. We’ve developed shooting and hunting products especially for women, reached out with welcoming and instructional workshops for women, and encouraged existing hunters and shooters to introduce their spouses, daughters and other newcomers to shooting sports and outdoor lifestyles. I believe these efforts are paying off, which is a bright spot for our industry as well as for conservation.”

If you watch any outdoor television shows or spent time on the outdoor websites, you will see to what Steve is referring. Whether a husband and wife, a dating couple, parent and daughter, or a lady by herself hosts the show, one thing for sure is the women in the field are as good as the men when it comes to getting their quarry.  Most of these shows have a female specific outdoor products sponsor. Products that the women themselves are spoke people for.  No more men’s camouflage that is too big, but camo-tailored to the fit of a woman. And gentlemen, have you checked out the line of, well for the lack of a better term, nighttime camo?  All of these target the outdoors-woman and those that love her.


Numbers in the Commonwealth tend to support the NSGA research as well. J W "Jimmy" Mootz, Outreach Education Coordinator for the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries explains” Basically, we are seeing a trend of an increasing numbers of female hunters.”


At the recent Virginia Outdoor Sportsman Show in Richmond there was a definite female representation.  The lines to meet Lee and Tiffany Lawkosky were long and with an unscientific eye evenly split between the sexes.  At the Virginia Deer Classic hosted by the Virginia Deer Hunters Association more than one female entrant came up to me to brag about her big buck.

‘Unique’ battlefield gun discovery on Towton battlefield

9:23am Monday 22nd November 2010

By Richard Catton

FRAGMENTS of what could be the earliest known battlefield guns have been unearthed by treasure hunters near Tadcaster, England.

The find has been described as being of “genuine historical importance” and comes after metal detector operator Simon Richardson and archaeologist Tim Sutherland searched the medieval War of the Roses battlefield at Towton.

Mr Richardson, of Tadcaster, said: “I had previously found a lead cannonball which is from a handgun or a very small mounted gun so I knew they had been used here, but I never expected in a million years to find pieces of one.”

The fragments were taken for analysis to Oxfordshire where scientists confirmed they were from two handguns and probably the earliest cast gun fragments from Britain.
Mr Sutherland, of the University of York, described the fragments as “incredibly important”.

“In terms of rarity, we don’t know of any other battlefield where these have turned up,” he said.

“In terms of the medieval period the find is, as far as I know, unique; and in terms of Towton battlefield, it is very, very important because we are looking at the cusp of the use of archery and the introduction of handguns. “It is incredibly important. We still cannot believe we have actually found these.”

He said: “The fact that these two fragments are on a medieval battlefield in the middle of nowhere – where there is nothing to be besieged – means that they are in use on a medieval battlefield in 1461. It is real data that we can put back into the research of medieval warfare.”

The Battle of Towton took place on March 29, 1461, and is reputed to be among the bloodiest in English history with an estimated 28,000 men killed – roughly one per cent of the entire English population at the time.

It was the largest battle fought in Britain and it is estimated up to 80,000 soldiers fought in the battle, which the Yorkists won.

The find will feature in tonight’s edition of Inside Out on BBC1 at 7.30pm.

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For this talk-show host, it was love at first shot

01:00 AM EST on Monday, November 22, 2010

By G. Wayne Miller

Journal Staff Writer

 
Daria Bruno demonstrates her passion for firearms with these dozen guns from her collection that she has brought on this crisp fall morning to Smithfield Sportsmen’s Club’s outdoor range. She will fire five of them: an AK-47 rifle, an AR-15 rifle, a Mauser rifle, a Glock pistol with laser sight, and a Smith & Wesson Model 29.
 
“This is the ‘Dirty Harry’ gun,” she says, removing the Model 29 from its case. “The gun that every guy had to go out and buy after they saw the ‘Dirty Harry’ movie. You know, ‘You feeling lucky, punk?’ This is the gun. Eight-and-3/8th-inch barrel. Forty-four magnum.” Its polished metal and shiny wooden grip sparkle in the morning light.
No one else is shooting now, but safety procedures must still be followed. Bruno activates a warning light and buzzer and walks onto the range with an orange flag, which she plants in the ground. She positions a target with green bull’s-eyes at the 25-yard mark and returns to the firing line, where she dons glasses and protective earmuffs.
 
“Safety is the most important thing, and education is very important,” says Bruno, a slim, brown-haired woman who wears black jeans, shirt, sweatshirt and boots today. “If that gun goes off and it causes physical harm to you or somebody else, it can potentially change your life.”
 
First up is the AK-47, a semi-automatic, civilian version of the legendary Kalashnikov Automatic Rifle, which emerged from the Soviet Union in 1947 and went on to become one of the most popular assault rifles in the world. The model that Bruno owns was manufactured in Romania, one of some two dozen countries where it is made.
Bruno, 46 and a mother of two daughters, removes a magazine containing 30 rounds from an ammunition case. With the safety on and the muzzle of the unloaded gun aimed down range, she slips the magazine into the AK-47’s receiver and brings the gun to her.
 
“You want to get into this and really love it,” she says. “You want to take the butt of the stock here and put it into this meaty part of your shoulder. You don’t want it on your arm, you don’t want it up on your bone because it will cause some bruising.”
Bruno clicks the safety off, sights the target, and fires. The firing is loud. It creates a percussion wave that an observer feels. It produces a modest kick, pushing Bruno’s upper body back, but not violently. Bang-bang-bang, the bullets pierce a green circle 25 yards away. The smell of gunpowder fills the air. The AK-47 barrel grows warm. Happiness, the Beatles sang, was this.
 
Youngest child and only daughter of a Providence doctor and housewife, Bruno grew up with no intimate knowledge of guns. Her father, a World War II veteran, owned a couple of antique firearms and her brothers shot .22 rifles at summer camp, but theirs was no gun family. The young Daria had no desire to shoot or own a rifle or pistol.
After graduating from Classical High School, Bruno enrolled at Boston’s Emerson College, where she majored in mass communications. A high school internship had sparked an enduring interest in radio, and after Emerson, she became a disc jockey for a Fitchburg, Mass., station.
 
“Once I got on the air,” she says, “I was hooked. I loved it. It became my whole focus in life.”
 
Her career eventually brought her to B101 (WWBB 101.5-FM), where she was a morning staple during the 1990s. She left in 1999 and she, her two young daughters and her then-husband moved to Louisiana, where they worked in radio before buying a furniture business.
 
The South was not Rhode Island.
 
“Down there,” she says, “kids are weaned on guns. They know how to operate them, they know how to be careful with them, they’re educated about being safe and being careful. Hunting down there is like a religious experience.” Guns even permeate business, Bruno says. “Up here, you might do a deal over a golf course. Down there, you do it in a deer stand.”
 
One day, a friend asked her how she protected herself in her furniture store.
 
I don’t have a gun, she said.
 
The friend gave her a loaded .357 Magnum, which she put in a drawer.
 
“Every now and then I’d open up the drawer and I’d look in there I was kind of afraid to touch it,” she says. Eventually, she told her friend: You’ve got to take me out. You’ve got to let me fire this thing.
 
After a safety lesson, she did. She aimed at a tin can, and missed.
 
“It was just like I was a kid, and it was the Fourth of July. I completely loved it. I was hooked. I liked the action, I liked the way it felt in my hand, I liked the kick. I just thought it was the coolest thing. A .357 Magnum will rock your world!”
 
Soon, Bruno was buying guns of her own. With practice, her aim improved.
Returning to Rhode Island two years ago, Bruno found herself in good company. According to her friend Beverly Mouradjian, a National Rifle Association-certified instructor and co-owner (with husband George) of Glocester’s Big Bear Hunting & Fishing Supply, women’s interest in firearms is growing.
 
“More women are becoming more concerned with the fact of their own safety,” Mouradjian says. “Many have asked about the possibility of applying for a permit to carry a concealed firearm.” Some women also hunt, she says, motivated by love of the outdoors and by need. Game can help feed a family, she says.
Bruno hunts, too: deer and wild hogs, in Texas.
 
“I eat the meat,” she says. “I am not a trophy hunter.”
 
Perhaps inevitably, given her other passion, Bruno this year debuted what apparently is the nation’s only gun talk show hosted by a woman: Lock, Stock and Daria (also known as Stick to Your Guns Radio), which airs from 11 a.m. to noon on Saturdays on conservative station WHJJ 920-AM. Gun enthusiast Mike Wojo is also on the show.
 
“I’ve had no resistance at all,” Bruno says. “It’s all been very, very positive. We really stress on the show: We are not irresponsible, we are the good guys and girls of guns.”
The topic is firearms — but guns in America, in the North or in the South, are enmeshed in politics. Bruno shares her views on air.
 
“Americans should not be disarmed,” she says. “If the police and the military can have firearms, so should the public. I’m totally with the NRA. I’m a life member of the NRA. And I’m a firm believer in our Second Amendment right.”
 
The AR-15 rifle, a close cousin of the military’s M-16, has less kick than the AK-47. The Model 29 pistol is held with two hands and is more easily aimed when cocked and fired single-action. The Glock, a favorite of law enforcement, has a nasty kick but the laser sight lends it a video-game feel.
 
Her venerable German-designed Mauser, which she bought at auction for $700, is Bruno’s favorite gun. Equipped with a Leupold scope, the bolt-action rifle features a blued metal barrel and a custom-built walnut stock.
 
“It’s dead-on accurate,” Bruno says, proving it at 50 yards.
 
This is a rare display, however; like a prized coin or stamp, the Mauser is more to be treasured than used.
 
“It’s something that you don’t even want to take out because you might ruin it. It’s like a Ferrari. It’s beautiful. It’s phenomenal.”
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Sixteen-year-old girl bags three bucks

Hortonville teen gets 31 points in about an hour

Updated: Saturday, 20 Nov 2010, 5:14 PM CST
Published : Saturday, 20 Nov 2010, 5:13 PM CST

• Reporter: Ben Krumholz

HORTONVILLE, WI - A 16-year-old Hortonville girl shot three bucks in about an hour on the opening morning of the 2010 gun deer hunting season.

Corissa Wege shot, in order, a 10-point, 13-point and 8-point buck.
“We didn't even have time to put the heater on,” said Tom Wege, Corissa’s father.
Tom Wege first spotted the 10-pointer.

“I told Corissa there you go and she looks at me and says no dad. She thought I was kidding her.”

“I looked through the binoculars and I'm like, oh, there is a deer,” said Corissa Wege.
Not long after taking down the first buck, the 13-pointer showed up.

“I reloaded her muzzle loader for her and gave it back to her,” said Tom Wege.
“I just saw horns, so I just shot,” said Corissa Wege.

The duo got out of their stand, only to find a third buck, the 8-pointer, walk up to them.

“I looked through the binoculars and said Corissa he is a shooter too, take him,” said Tom Wege. “She drilled him right in the boilermaker. She took that one right out of business.”

The three bucks total 31 points.

“She was shaking, almost crying,” said Tom Wege. “She was just...you couldn't even talk to her. Just so excited. It was unreal.”

The Weges say it knew the 13-pointer was in the area, but didn't know about the others. The family says it typically sees a fair amount of bucks on its property.

“I think we had a hot doe in the area,” said Tom Wege. “This is all deer quality that we do. This whole management part is deer quality and as you can see it's paying off.”
Everyone in the Wege family hunts, so the only problem with the three new additions is the family is running out of room to show everything off.

“I want to get them all mounted…if my dad allows it,” said Corissa Wege.

“That's going to cost me,” said Tom Wege while laughing.

The Weges joke, maybe they can get a two for one deal.

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