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Cda Press: Young Gun

Posted by Cindy

Dec. 31, 2009 11:15 a.m. • 0 comments

A barista in training perhaps?

You won’t find too many necklace holders like the one Josee Bassett has in her room.

It’s the antlers of the buck she shot not far from her Coeur d’Alene home.

“She’s got to accessorize,” her dad, Paige Bassett, said with a laugh.

Josee shot the 4-by-4 whitetail buck last month, the second day of hunting season. It was also just two days after her 12th birthday — when she was officially old enough for a hunting permit. Full story.

When I was 12 I discovered lip gloss and boys. My father would have probably preferred I took up hunting.

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