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Proving that you’re never too old to hunt, 90-year-old Delores Wilhelms got her buck for the second straight year. The Wisconsin granny connected on a 9-point buck earlier this month using a crossbow. Last year, after sitting out hunting for years after her husband passed away, Wilhelms’ neighbor, Ron Haessly, helped the woman return to the woods. She was successful in her initial return to the woods taking a buck with her crossbow then as well. The feat earned Wilhelms a write-up in the pages of Outdoor Life.

Meanwhile, across the country on Oct. 8, another grandmother, Doris Baumann, who also hadn’t hunted since her husbands passing returned to the Nevada’s high desert at the behest of her sons. After missing church one day to hunt, Mrs. Baumann, 75, made a fantastic 250-yard shot on a 4x4 mule deer.

“I took the picture of the deer to my church, because I wanted everyone to know why I wasn’t at the meeting that day,” Baumann told the Record-Courier newspaper.

Congratulations ladies. You’re an inspiration to all of us.

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from charlie elk wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

Wow, that is cool ladies!
If you have a goal like me to be the oldest person to kill a deer - a hunter in MN was 107 when he got his last deer. So the bar is high, but I am sure you girls are up to the task.
Hunt on,
charlie

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from Bo wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

Gives me hope that I can continue on hunting well into my sunset years. Congrats to the ladies, they are an inspiration.

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from jamesti wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

tougher than some 25 year old men i've hunted with. congrats.

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from blackwolftdm wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

lol awesome

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from taylor1 wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

thats awesome i always think about how old i will be when i stop hunting. now this gives me hope to be hunting till im wayyyyyy old. congratulations

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from patrick88 wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

better watch out the grannies are going to show us up in the wall hanger catagory!

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from charlie elk wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

Wow, that is cool ladies!
If you have a goal like me to be the oldest person to kill a deer - a hunter in MN was 107 when he got his last deer. So the bar is high, but I am sure you girls are up to the task.
Hunt on,
charlie

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from Bo wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

Gives me hope that I can continue on hunting well into my sunset years. Congrats to the ladies, they are an inspiration.

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from jamesti wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

tougher than some 25 year old men i've hunted with. congrats.

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from blackwolftdm wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

lol awesome

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from taylor1 wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

thats awesome i always think about how old i will be when i stop hunting. now this gives me hope to be hunting till im wayyyyyy old. congratulations

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from patrick88 wrote 12 weeks 3 days ago

better watch out the grannies are going to show us up in the wall hanger catagory!

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