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At 93, Stumpf is still on the hunt

John Stumpf grew up in a time when a kid didn't have to attend a hunter education class in order to shoot a deer.

"I started hunting when you didn't need to be taught. When you were old enough to go, you went," he said, calculating that he was probably around 8 years old the first time he went hunting.

That means the Cloquet resident has been hunting for close to 85 years.

At age 90, Stumpf was still heading out to his deer stand to sit for hours on his own, waiting for the next big buck to wander into range of his rifle.

Now, at 93, he is still hunting, although now it's from a blind on the g...

 
 
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