An 8-year-old Mississippi girl was doing school work in a deer stand when her mother told her there was a buck nearby.
Mississippi Clarion LedgerKate Fortner, 8, of Foxworth took this big 12-point deer while hunting with her mother during youth season.JACKSON, Miss. – Lisa Fortner of Foxworth knew there had been a good buck in the area where she and her daughter, Kate, were in the stand Nov. 15, but the only confirmed sightings of it were through game camera photos.
Lisa was watching some deer in the field that were too far to shoot while her daughter did school work. Then a buck came out, close enough for a shot. Kate quietly got in position, looked through the scope and saw something else.Later she said:"He was bigger than the first one. I was shaking."Killer disease:"I was a nervous wreck," Lisa said."I was watching through binoculars, and they were going in circles. I was super nervous.
A range like that may seem a bit excessive for an 8-year-old, but not for Kate. Lisa said Kate had already harvested five deer before this hunt.Kate learned to shoot with the tiny rifle and then graduated to a big game rifle and killed her first deer at 4 years old. Now a seasoned hunter, Kate squeezed the trigger on her .308 Ruger rifle without the aid of a tripod and sent a bullet at the big-racked buck.The two gathered their gear and school work and went to find the deer. When they located him, Kate realized just how big the rack was.
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