HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) -- Gladys Schaefer likes to get things done. The 80-year-old western Kentucky great-grandmother bagged a doe within 30 minutes in late November. "Don't stop doing things 'til you're in the grave!" Schaefer says.

She's a mother of four, grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of seven who loves boating, plays golf three or four times a week and is getting ready for a trip to Las Vegas. She said she hadn't fired a gun since her teens, but she hadn't forgotten a thing. Schaefer, a breast-cancer survivor who lost her husband of 54 years last August, praises her family for supporting her notions and "being so wonderful to me."

"She just wants to do whatever she's big enough to do," Connell said. "I love her to death. She's a great sport, fun and fun-loving." Now Schaefer is happily distributing to friends the many pounds of sausage from the deer, and she's looking forward to another hunt in 2007.