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Related: About this forum10-year-old Texas girl kills 13-foot, 800-pound alligator with crossbow
A 10-year-old Texas girl shot and killed an 800-pound alligator Sunday with crossbow from about 15 yards on the Guadalupe River in South Texas.
Ella Hawk, who killed the 13-foot reptile with her first shot, told the Victoria Advocate she wasnt nervous.
"They said it was really big," she told the newspaper. "I was so excited."
Ella and her parents embarked on the likely record-breaking hunt with guide Ryan Longer a few miles south of Victoria near U.S. 77 and the Guadalupe River, about 45 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/lifestyle/travel-outdoors/article/Little-girl-kills-13-foot-800-pound-alligator-in-6550899.php
[font color=330099]Yum! Dinner.
Excuse me, I was taking the gator's perspective, not the girl's. [/font]
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10-year-old Texas girl kills 13-foot, 800-pound alligator with crossbow (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Oct 2015
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RoverSuswade
(641 posts)1. Cute girl
but the shocking image of something dark hanging from a noose makes me extremely uncomfortable.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)2. Isn't that wonderful.
Excuse me ...sorry 'bout that.
TexasTowelie
(112,453 posts)3. She is getting experience so that she can move onto smaller animals.
Sorry about that folks. My sentiments to both pictures are the same.
douglas9
(4,359 posts)4. State board moves to revoke license of vet who shot cat with arrow