Despite some backlash on social media, an Arkansas mom said she’s proud of her 10-year-old daughter’s big accomplishment killing a 220-pound black bear with a crossbow.

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Ayla Highfill, 10, of Hartman, who weighs only a quarter of her prey, was photographed standing over her kill after a bountiful hunt with her father.

“I’ve hunted many animals, but I’ve never killed or seen something like this before,” Ayla told InsideEdition.com. “It wasn’t exactly scary, but it was a mixture of excitement and scary.”

Ayla, who has been hunting since she was 6 years old, explained she was on a routine hunting trip with her dad when they spotted the bear. They originally anticipated coming home with a deer, squirrels, or raccoons.

“I heard something like leaves crunching and it was huffing pretty loud,” she…