93 year old bags gobbler on opening day

http://www.salisburypost.com/Sports/060909-out-turkey-grandma-watson-gobbler

Katie Watson is still hunting the land she grew up on and hopes to be doing more of the same when she turns 94 in September.

Her most recent addition was a 19-pound turkey she got about a half mile from her home near Richfield in Stanly County while hunting with her grand-nephew, Kevin Barringer, on opening day of the spring turkey season.

Barringer helped Watson to her blind and put decoys out. He was 200 yards away in his own pop-up blind.

Watson used her call, and about five minutes later the gobbler showed up. One shot with her 12 gauge Browning automatic, and it was hers.

She got a four-point deer with a 30.06 in the fall and has hunted quail and trained pointers over the years. She also hunts with a muzzle loader. "I've hunted all my life," she said. "But I don't pretend to be good."

Her hunting skills have been noted by Charlotte Observer outdoors columnist Tom Higgins, who wrote in a feature on her that she didn't get her first turkey until she was 86. Watson said she's got four turkey tails, including the latest big one, up on plaques at her house. "They're not the easiest thing to come by," she said.

School Locked down after man spotted with hunting rifle

Pittsburgh School Locked Down After Man Spotted With Hunting Rifle

PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh elementary school was put in lockdown for a short time Thursday morning after a man was spotted with a hunting rifle.

School spokeswoman Ebony Pugh said a man was hunting deer near Arlington Elementary School along Jonquil Street with a high-powered rifle.

School leaders locked down the school as a precaution, but operations quickly returned to normal. Police were unable to find the man.


I just have to say that I would hate to be that guy. Is it me or are more and more people scared to death of hunters. I've been in a scenario where I thought something like this might happen to me before. We were hunting a corn field for geese next to an industrial complex. We were far enough away to be legal, but the office building called the police, and they came out to check on us. I was scared to death we would make the news, because they had several police cars out there, but thankfully, we didn't. Society complains of over population of geese and deer in urban areas, but they freak out when we try to help.

Now, I'm not excusing this guy. I don't know how close he was to the school or what he was up to. It just seems stupid to lock down a school, but considering these crazy school shootings, maybe it was necessary. I imagine it was a harmless mistake. What do you think? And why is someone hunting deer in JUNE?