Morgantown, MS – A 101-year-old hunter in Mississippi is still at it, and even dropped two deer with one shot.
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Veteran hunter Bertha Vickers made the twofer during her first successful hunt at age 101, the Clarion Ledger reported . Getting two in one a few days after her Jan. 9 birthday was a complete accident, and the first time she’d ever done it, Vickers said.
After missing four this season, the Morgantown resident said she was determined to bag a deer. Her shots from the blind that relatives built her had missed. She liked the blind and its location but not her .243-caliber rifle, or another gun that her granddaughter had to cock for her.
Vickers was back in the blind days after her 101st birthday. She spotted one deer from her hideout, but she remained patient and was rewarded.
“I decided to wait for a bigger one,” Vickers said. “Before long, a bigger doe came out and I shot. Then I saw two deer on the ground. It shot plum through both of them.”
Vickers said she helped clean the animals and shared the meat with her family. “I made steaks, but I gave most of it to my grandchildren,” she said.
The centenarian also mows her lawn, raises vegetables and still enjoys fishing.
When she killed another deer just weeks before her 100th birthday, Vickers wondered why other people made a fuss about it. It was a doe after all, not a prized buck.
“When you’re as old as I am, you naturally think each one could be your last one, but I’m going to go as long as I can,” Vickers said.
So now we know why hunters need armor piercing bullets. To get a “twofer”.
101? The alter kocker will be meeting those 2 deer shortly. And they aint gonna be happy.
yep, nice sport for people, especially the elderly, killing innocent animals for pure fun….
Shooting animals is fine, but shechita is not humane.
Can we please get news from a Jewish source saying some 101 years old Jewish woman did 2 mitzvot at once by making, eating, doing something instead.
Thank you
This woman and her family are EATING the meat of these 2 deer!
Is the meat on your plate less ‘innocent’?