97-Year-Old Says She May Die With A Gun In Her Hand

Katie Watson 97-year-old hunter
Katie Watson 97-year-old hunter
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Updated: 11/13/2012 11:05 am
There are certain things you expect to see in a 97-year-old woman's home and certain things you don't.

Katie Watson from Richfield, North Carolina is full of things you wouldn't figure.

She shot her first rabbit when she was 10 years old. To this day, she hunts quail and turkey but she's probably most proud of the fact that she's tagged 44 deer since she turned 80.

"How many men still hunt when they're 97?" she asks.

If you wondered how she gets around in the woods, she takes an A.T.V.

Watson doesn't plan on slowing down any time soon.

"I'm a gonna be shootin' a gun till the day i die if i'm able," saud Watson.

Her nephew says it is an honor to know someone who has been hunting for her entire life.
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Roscoe2 - 11/15/2012 8:47 AM
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wild meat is more healthier then store bought meat red meat out of store not good for u if u eat too much.

AncestralYuba - 11/14/2012 3:21 PM
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Dear Katie, Can I adopt you as my granny?

TheFacts - 11/14/2012 11:26 AM
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Her legacy is not that she killed animals her entire life. She's still active, still happy, still living life and still doing what she loves at 97...that's her legacy! You go Ms. Watson!!

rosey red - 11/14/2012 11:19 AM
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blue collar-I hardly feel guilty of animals being killed for food.I use to work in a slaughter house. So I guess I have a grip, whatever you mean by that!

blue collar - 11/14/2012 5:14 AM
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You go girl! Bet she's a great shot, too. @rosey, get a grip, if you eat meat, I guess you perfer to have someone else kill them freeing you of guilt?

kdr1966 - 11/13/2012 11:49 PM
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i dare say the fact that hunting for her meat instead of buying "meat products" from the piggly wiggly has contributed to her being able to hunt at 97. bet her cholesterol level is around 7.

Cincinnatus - 11/13/2012 5:12 PM
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People who kill their own food are no more guilty of anything than those of us who buy meat at stores.

Gunney - 11/13/2012 2:34 PM
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"You go girl" I'd be willing to bet that she doesn't put up with any stuff out of anybody...God bless America !! and our 2d amendment rights..

jericho941 - 11/13/2012 12:47 PM
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Watson for President! She is my hero. I love this woman---I sure hope to be the same way when I am 97.

spocb99 - 11/13/2012 11:46 AM
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@Rosey…..and I can gauren-damn-tee she ate every single one of them. Someone who kills an animal to put food on the table has a much grater respect for that animal’s life than the person who picks up a pack of meat at the grocery store. You go Katie!
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