Posted on 12/06/2020 7:32:08 AM PST by texas booster
... With the meat of the rut still ahead in some regions and lots of holiday hunting traffic sure to come, it’s a safe bet plenty more will surface before the season’s end.
Virginia Luce’s 11-pointer isn’t the biggest buck reported from eastern Texas this season, but the story behind her Houston County whopper is arguably one of the most refreshing to come down the pike in quite a while.
The veteran hunter from Kennard is a four-time cancer survivor who retired just two months ago after working for 25 years as a registered nurse. Luce hasn’t missed a season opener in years, many spent on the 80-acre spread where she and her husband, Myrl, built their home back in the 1980s.
The property is conveniently located adjacent to the Davy Crockett National Forest. The big woods gobble up more than 160,000 acres of real estate in Houston and Trinity counties. Family members are the only ones who get the green light to hunt on the couple’s little slice of heaven.
“It’s a pretty good spot,” she said. “My husband and I have hunted and fished together for our entire married life — 63 years. “I usually kill a buck every year, but we don’t allow anyone to shoot the momma deer. The way I see it, if you leave the girls alone, the boys will come.”
Luce turned 80 on her last birthday; her husband is 83. While neither gets around as well they used to, she can still shoot a rifle as well as she ever did.
The couple keeps corn feeders going on the property each fall, and they rely on game cameras to watch them. Luce has logged countless hours in hunting blinds over the years, but physical limitations have forced a change in strategy ...
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Damn, grandma beat me by one tine.
5.56mm
Big buck got shot over, by Grandma, as she was making lunch, for Grandpappy and me....🎶
Three years ago on my first ever deer hunt at age 60 I bagged my buck off my back deck. Had spot lights plugged in to clean and dress him and hosed him off with the hose from the house. I thought what’s everybody whining about traipsing around in the wilderness. Deck hunting in the only way to go! Piece of cake 😁👍
Family story goes that just after I was born, my dad and brother went out to get a deer but didn’t get one. We were on the less well off side at the time and needed the meat.
Mom said, “We’ll get one,” and got her 20 gauge and took my sister out hunting. Mom shot one about 50 yards from the house but didn’t bring a knife to cut it’s throat, so she shot it in the neck. It was still twitching, so she had my sis take off her pants and tie it up while she went to get dad and bro to dress it out.
She really wanted that meat.
A similar story from my own county.
https://www.highlandernews.com/features/91-year-old-hunter-bags-two-big-bucks-burnet-county
Deck hunting.... I like the sound of that!
Good looking dear! Is 80 the new 65??
Yup! I won’t even bother shooting a buck any longer, the girls taste a lot better.
That could be taken wrong or right...
The hosting family planned to spend 6 weeks. They went earlier than everyone else to dig a privy, and to set up the kitchen.
Momma, of the family, liked to shoot and cook. She told Papa if'n he wanted her to cook he needed to bring her cook stove. So, Papa made that a reality.
Momma got up early to cook breakfast and while she got me and some others to clean up, she got dressed to shoot.
She made the best pork chops, southern sides, gravy, you name it. The amount of work she did was like me doing Thanksgiving, everyday for six weeks.
And with all that excellent cooking she did end up getting herself a buck.
I don’t have any objections to hunting, but is it really much of a hunt if you lure an animal and shoot it? Yes, I know people do this all the time, but I don’t quite get what the thrill of it is. It’s kind of like shooting a cow in a fenced pasture.
Cool!
My grandmother on my fathers side lived to 104. She hunted deer and turkey until she was 101.
The only rifle she EVER used for deer was a leaver action 30-30 with 4 power side mounted scope. Tradition was to notch wood when a buck was downed. She had 87 notches on it.
I miss her dearly
Roger that. During deer season all screens come off windows and the hunt is on. Too damn old to sit out in the cold and freeze my nads off.
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