“Wouldn’t you know his head was stuck in there? … I, never in my life!” There was this tree like this, Marie said, and demonstrated with her hands. And I shot it.” She dropped it with one shot.īut that was only the beginning of the story. “I seen that thing go in there, and then drove a certain way and stopped, and I went in there and sat down,” Marie said. Groups, there were stealing deer away from people.” “Hunters had a bad reputation of taking deer there was a shortage of deer or whatever. Now at that time, people were stealing deer from other hunters, she explained. “And I seen this deer go in the swamp,” she said. She was driving her car near a swampy area near the Bryant area where they lived.

A young mother with her first child at home, she went out to hunt out of a two-door coupe.

“At that time, I went hunting myself,” Marie said. She still recalls her first experience, and her first deer hunt, vividly. Once she realized she could shoot, Marie was bitten by the hunting bug. “Oh, he was proud of me!” she says of her husband’s reaction. He couldn’t believe it, that I could hit the target all the time and I hadn’t been shooting.” She laughs, clearly delighted at the memory. “And I was a pretty good shot!” Marie said. Her husband went hunting with a bunch of guys, and she doesn’t remember exactly how it came about, but her husband gave her the gun and said, “Why don’t you try it?” “We were married and living in Bryant,” Marie recalls. So the first time Marie ever shot a gun, she was about 21 years old, newly married, with her first baby. Raised on a farm in the Town of Pine River, her father was old-fashioned and believed hunting was for boys and men. Unlike many hunters who learned to hunt alongside a parent or grandparent, Marie didn’t get to hunt when she was growing up. She has quite the scrapbook with photos and newspaper clippings, and a trophy wall in her living room, with bragging rights many hunters would both envy and admire. 30), she has harvested trophy bucks, bear, turkey, and moose, as well as hunted squirrels and ice fished and had more adventures than she could fit in a book. At age 94 (she just celebrated her birthday on Oct. Marie Skic has loved hunting for more years than many of today’s hunters have been alive. Marie Skic, at age 93, with her son, Stan, who holds up the deer Marie dropped with one shot from 170 yards in 2020.

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