12-year-old girl is youngest Minnesotan to shoot a moose

A Minnesota Department of Natural Resources wildlife official confirmed that a 12-year-old girl has become the youngest person in the state to kill a moose. (Minnesota recently lowered the moose-hunting age to 10.)

According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Nicollet resident Kelly Holmin was on a hunting trip with her father, Jeff, earlier this month when she felled the 1,100-pound bull moose with a single shot from about 75 yards.

Kelly is not new to hunting or to handling guns. The youngster has a firearms safety certificate and takes annual hunting trips with her father.

"Maybe the next thing I do is put in for an elk license," Kelly said after bagging the massive moose with a 58-inch antler spread. "My dad says that in big-game hunting, it's all downhill from here."

-- Kelly Burgess

Photo: Kelly Holmin, 12, sits on a bull moose after she shot and killed it. A Minnesota wildlife official confirms that Kelly is the youngest Minnesotan to kill a moose. Credit: Associated Press

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Comments

[Gray]

I hope she can eat all that herself.

[Diamonds]

Great job,now you should make it into the history books.
This is a spot light in your life to always remember.
Did you mount it to display in the home?Alot of good meat
to put in the deep freeze,that should last for the year,according to how much you enjoy the meat.
Take care
Creative1Touch