Meet The 10-Year-Old Huntress Who Killed A 13-Foot Alligator With A Crossbow

A ten-year-old girl has won a hunting prize for killing a 13-foot long alligator with a crossbow.

Ella Hawk killed the 800-pound animal with one shot in the head above its eyes on a hunting trip on the Guadalupe River near Victoria, Texas.

The kill earned her a number one spot in the Trophy Game Records of the World database. She has been hunting for the past few years with her parents, Tony and Cindy.

Her hunting guide, Ryan Longer, baited the alligator and hooked it near a bank, allowing Ella to shoot her crossbow from the opposite side of the river.

Speaking to The Victoria Advocate, Ella said: “I wasn’t nervous. I was happy. I was so excited.”

Her father Tony said: “She had nerves of steel before the shot. She’s just gifted like that.”

Longer told the newspaper: “She Robin Hooded it.”

He also asked the ten-year-old to shoot the alligator with two more arrows and a pistol to make sure the animal was dead.

Longer said Ella has more skill than most of the adults he brings on his hunts.

“I have more confidence in her than probably more than 90 per cent of the grown men I take on hunts,” he said.

Earlier this year, American big game hunter Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, faced anger from conservationists and animal rights groups after he killed Cecil the lion on a hunt in Zimbabwe.

(Pictures: Tony Hawk/Facebook)