If you think grandmas can’t be badass, you obviously haven’t met the right women.
Take 80-year-old Virginia Luce, for example. The East Texas grandma this year retired from a 25-year career as a Registered Nurse.
She has always loved opening days, and has attended them all throughout her working life. Living with her 83-year-old husband near the Davy Crockett National Forest, they have one of the best hunting spots in their back garden.
And for an 80-year-old, Virginia has a pretty good technique, too!
Speaking to Dallas News about her hunting habits, Virginia revealed:
“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.”
While Virginia can’t get around like she once could, she can still shoot a rifle as good as the best hunters out there.
She and her husband decided that they didn’t want to sit up high in a deer stand all day at their age – so they made a new plan: they’d hunt from their house.
In preparation for the deer season, Virginia put out corn feeders around her home and set up tracking cameras.
Virginia now does all her hunting from the comfort of her kitchen, saying:
“My kitchen is my deer stand. We take the screen off one of the windows every fall. I can see a pretty good ways from there.”
Bring a true hunter, Virginia is careful to keep a gun nearby – because you just never know when you might spot a worthy shot.
And then, on what started out as a normal lunchtime on November 8th, Virginia’s time came.
While she was preparing food for herself and her husband, Virginia noticed what looked like a buck through her kitchen window.
She grabbed her Abinoculars to check that she had seen right – and she had. So she shouldered her gun and fired a single shot.
All of this happened so quickly that Virginia’s husband, in the other room, didn’t even know she had seen a buck.
Not until she’d fired her shot, anyway!
He wasn’t surprised, though, as he knew all too well his wife’s buck-watching habits by now. He recalled:
“Right after the shot she hollered, ‘Well, that was the big one, Daddy.’ That’s when I put my boots on, got on the tractor and went to load him up. He didn’t go far. She doesn’t miss very often.”
It was only when the couple went to inspect the buck that they discovered how big it was – far bigger than anything Virginia had shot before.
Dallas News reported that a representative at McCarty Taxidermy scored the buck with “11 points, including a split brow tine, the buck has been taped at 1602/8 gross as a non-typical.”
Virginia’s grandson, Bruce Childers, proudly shared his grandma’s kill on Facebook.
He wrote:
“My grandma can out hunt your grandma. 80 years old and got it done from her kitchen window.”
Watch out for Virginia! She might be 80-years-old, but she’s definitely not a woman to be messed with!
You can see proud grandson Bruce’s full Facebook post just below.
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My grandma can out hunt your grandma. 80 years old and got it done from her kitchen window. 👊🏼🇺🇸 Official score 160 2/8”
Posted by Bruce Childers on Monday, 9 November 2020
