posted January 06, 2007 03:11 PM         

She's a mother of four, grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of seven who loves boating, plays golf three or four times a week and is getting ready for a trip to Las Vegas.

"She's a totally amazing woman," said Mark Lynn, her son-in-law.

Her grandson-in-law, Christopher Connell and Lynn took Schaefer out for the Nov. 20 hunt. They picked her up the day before to take her out for some target practice.

She said she hadn't fired a gun since her teens, but she hadn't forgotten a thing. She did well with a rifle mounted on a tripod, and the trio retired to a trailer for the night.

The thermometer dropped to 24 degrees that evening, but Schaefer said she fared just fine. By 6 a.m. the next day, she was in a blind at the foot of a tree where Connell served as deer spotter and relayed information to her and Lynn over a walkie-talkie.

Within minutes, a doe came within 50 or 60 yards of the blind, and she fired a shot.

"Ka-powie! I let it go! I thought my heart would beat right out of my chest. I was so excited," she said.

Schaefer, a breast-cancer survivor who lost her husband of 54 years last August, praises her family for supporting her notions and "being so wonderful to me."

"She just wants to do whatever she's big enough to do," Connell said. "I love her to death. She's a great sport, fun and fun-loving."

Now Schaefer is happily distributing to friends the many pounds of sausage from the deer, and she's looking forward to another hunt in 2007.

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posted January 06, 2007 05:21 PM         

Who the hell battles breast cancer then kills a deer for the hell of it?

It seems like she needs to battle the demons in her now.

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Well, the truth isthe animal dies immediately and it's much easier than succombing to the fate nature had in store.

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And who told you what nature had in store for it? Did you see visions into the future?

No offense but people also have fate. Everyone dies. That is no excuse for that ugly old hag to shoot it.

Why would you excuse something like this then express your love for animals in another thread?

That's pretty stupid don't you think?

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Bear meat? What are you a red neck living in a cabin in the wilderness? ewww that's freakin disgusting. Seems very masculine.

[quote]Sweet Stars, what do you think nature had in store for it?

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I don't know you tell me. Are you carrying around a crystal ball like angel is? Did you see into it's future and see it was going to die like the rest of us? Barbaric and disgusting humans who go into the wilderness and hunt these animals are the ones who think they have the right to take there life when they want. Leave the animal in the wild.

It just shows how some humans cna be. They can shoot something and kill it like nothing. With no sort of remorse....as if it's life meant nothing. Then they claim to love an animal?

People like this don't even love themselves.

posted May 31, 2007 05:55 PM         

I personally think, at 80yrs of age, that its awesome she could have that experience. I personally would never go out and "hunt" my own meat ... rather i'll let someone else do the dirty work and allow me to purchase it from the store or reiceve Moose meat sausage from a friend. She didnt shoot the animal and walk away from it - rather she passed the processed meat out among friends and family. So it wasnt as if she did it "just" for the fun of it ...