GREAT-GRANNY ALSO PRETTY GOOD GUNNER.Byline: Eric Sharp Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. Each deer season brings out a number of swaggering men who equate hunting with machismo machismo Exaggerated pride in masculinity, perceived as power, often coupled with a minimal sense of responsibility and disregard of consequences. In machismo there is supreme valuation of characteristics culturally associated with the masculine and a denigration of , who think two weeks in camp without changing underwear somehow increases their masculine mystique. And then there is Mabel Bates Bates , Katherine Lee 1859-1929. American educator and writer best known for her poem "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 and revised in 1904 and 1911. . At 8 a.m. on the opening day of the firearms season, the lifelong hunter looked through the telescopic sight of her Savage .308 rifle and killed a five-point buck at 75 yards. Then she went to a nearby store, bought a second license, returned to her blind and shot a six-pointer before lunch. This time, instead of going directly to the deer, she waited for her son, Gerald, to return from hanging the first deer she shot, because she sometimes needs help walking on rough ground. Mabel Bates will be 87 in February. A retired Osceola County Osceola County is the name of three counties in the United States:
She hunted with her father, a Pere Marquette Railroad worker who moved to the long-vanished community of Marlborough, near Baldwin, shortly after she was born in 1910. Bates hunted rabbits, squirrels and other small game and killed her first deer after she married her first husband. And when he walked out in 1944 and left her as the sole support of two small children and a 15-day-old infant, she hunted to feed the family. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how many I've shot,'' she said. ``Numbers weren't a big thing to us. It was just food on the table. The kids' dad treated me like an old car when he left. He traded me for a younger model, so it was up to me to take care of them. ``Hunting was just part of our way of life. |
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