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 wasn’t 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.

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Longer, owner of a hunting service named Longer’s Outdoors, told mySA.com the gator was "the biggest one he's ever seen."

He said the gator was baited and hooked in the middle of the river with a log and rope.

Then, Ella shot the animal from the bank with the crossbow.

"The first shot paralyzed and killed him," Ella told the Advocate.

For insurance, Hawk, under Longer’s supervision shot the creature two additional times with the crossbow and once with a .243-caliber pistol, the report said.

Longer waded through the muddy water to then pull the gator to the bank.

"I have more confidence in her than probably more than 90 percent of the grown men I take on hunts," Longer said of the young Huffman native.

According to the Advocate, Hawk’s most recent kill puts her in a good position to receive the Trophy Game Records of the World Huntress of the Year award for the second consecutive time.

Her catch is pending approval to become a record for an alligator killed by crossbow on the Guadalupe River.

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