104-Year-Old Wisconsin Woman Wows Authorities After Bagging Buck During First Hunt

Florence Teeters made the news after bagging a buck during her first hunt at the age of 104. Out of the hundreds of thousands of hunting licenses issued in Wisconsin this year, authorities confirmed that she was the oldest to get one.

According to KDVR, Teeters was born in a small town in rural Wisconsin as World War I began to gain momentum in Europe. She still lives in the same small town. During her lifetime, she survived through the flu pandemic of 1918 and the Great Depression as a teenager. She also saw a man landed and walked on the moon and witnessed the Cubs winning the world series when she was 101.

As an added cap to her bucket list, she recently went on her first-ever hunting trip and killed a deer. She did it during the deer hunting season in Wisconsin.

Bill, the youngest of her five children shared with reporters that his mother sat with him last year and told him that she wanted to get a hunting license. He agreed and she got one in time for the 2019 season.

“I took mom out to the blind this year,” Bill told WMTV. “I had a nice chair for her and it was nice and warm. A little after 4 p.m., a buck shows up about 30 yards away. I tapped her on the knee and I pointed. She nodded and smiled and was really quiet. Then, she took the shot.”

Upon realizing that she made the kill, Florence was ecstatic. Bill said she was elated, screaming, "I got a buck! I got a buck!" The buck was a small spike, meaning it had unbranched antlers. He said she wanted to go hunting because she wanted to experience the part about being out in the stand with the boys.

Joe Paul from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources told the media it sounded she came from a family of hunters, so they knew what they were doing.

Bill also noted that Florence is quite the adventurer, adding that she went zip lining in Milwaukee and goes to Mardi Gras every year.

In total, over 90,000 deer were harvested by gun and registered on a statewide scale on the opening weekend of deer hunting season. The hunt recorded 123,000 harvests in 2018, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Despite the lower numbers, the state officials say that more than half a million hunters purchased licenses this year to take part in the opening weekend of the 168th gun deer season in Wisconsin. The sales of gun, bow and crossbow licenses reached a peak of almost 800,000 by Sunday.