JACKSON, Miss. – An 8-year-old Mississippi girl was doing school work in a deer stand when her mother told her there was a buck nearby.

When the young hunter looked through her scope, something much bigger stepped into view.

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.

“We got in the stand about 4 o’clock,” said Lisa Fortner. “She’s homeschooled. We were sitting there doing some school papers.”

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.

“Mama, there’s…