NORWAY – Last year, Janice Dow put her name in a raffle with 1,000 others, and she won a 28-gauge pump shotgun.

This year she again bought a $20 ticket to support the Waterford Fish and Game Association. Again her name was drawn at Woodman’s Sporting Goods store in Norway – for another 28-gauge pump shotgun.

“It was quite thrilling,” she said, although she traded in the duplicate gun for something different to go target practicing with.

Paul Brook, owner of Woodman’s gun shop, has hosted the contest for 13 years. Every October he puts contest entries in one drawing, and 31 different types of guns in another.

About 1,000 people enter each year for Waterford Fish and Game Association’s primary fundraiser.

People have the opportunity to win more than once a year, as the winning entry is thrown back in. In all years but one, two guns have gone to the same household, and sometimes to the same person, Brook said.

In several cases, some have won year after year, Brook said. One man has taken home four guns.

The same man bought a ticket for his son, and he won a gun, Brook said.

“As it went by the statistics just kept getting stranger and stranger and stranger,” Brook said.

The association buys guns from Brook, and he cuts them a deal. Each gun has a retail value of $500-$550.