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| Nov. 4, 2006 - American News SD |
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Drumsticks aren't the only thing Irlene Mandrell knows how to handle. She's also comfortable around guns. Mandrell had a 12-gauge shotgun with her Friday as she took part in the Celebrity Pheasant Hunt. It was the second time Mandrell has participated in the Aberdeen event. Mandrell works with a number of companies and organizations involved in the outdoors. But she comes to Aberdeen just because the event is for a good cause. She likes to take part in a few charitable events each year, and for the last two years, the Aberdeen hunt has been one of them.
Mandrell, who began as a percussionist, is the youngest of the country music Mandrell sisters, which also includes Barbara and Louise. The three sisters achieved fame on the NBC series "Barbara Mandrell & The Mandrell Sisters," in the early 1980s. Irlene and her sisters have been around guns for a long time. Their father, Irby, was a policeman. Her sister, Louise, got Irlene into bird hunting. Irlene has her own event, the Irlene Mandrell Celebrity Shoot, each May in Branson, Mo. Irlene Mandrell lives in Gallatin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. "We're all scattered around Nashville -- Mom, Dad and my sisters," she said. "Mom's in better shape than any of us girls," adding that "She's total muscle." Irlene is a spokesperson for CZ-USA, a firearms company with Czech origins. That company made the 12-gauge she's using this weekend. "I like all the help I can get," she said of the gun. She's also involved in new bullet company -- DRT ammo. DRT stands for Dynamic Research Technologies.
"Louise and I will be on the cover of the box," she said. The two sisters are part-owners. The president of the company, John Worrell, accompanied Mandrell to Aberdeen. Worrell, who lives in Albany, Mo., is also the owner of American Walnut Co. of Kansas City, which makes gun stocks. Mandrell is a big animal lover, which is how she got into outdoor sports. In talking to outdoorsmen, she learned that, without hunters, "you're not going to have wildlife." Now she spends part of her time promoting shooting and hunting rights. Mandrell has three children, Deric, 20, Vanessa, 18, and Christina, 11. She travels so much that, when she's home, where she gets to enjoy her kids, she feels like she's on vacation. On last year's visit to Aberdeen, she bagged a couple of pheasants when her fellow hunters made her a blocker. But normally, she likes getting out and walking, "even though the corn's taller than me." Irlene is almost 5-foot-4. She and Louise are the same height. Barbara's a little shorter. "Louise says she's taller, but she's not." Speaking of numbers, how old is Irlene? "Oh, that's a tough one," she said, smiling. "I can lie. Would you believe 29?"
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