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Texas grandma shoots, kills massive gator linked to missing miniature horse
FoxNews.com ^ | Sept 18, 2018 | Zoe Szathmary

Posted on 09/19/2018 7:20:40 AM PDT by ETL

“One shot ——-> One Big-un down!” Facebook user Scott Hughes wrote on Monday when sharing snaps of the creature nabbed by Livingston mayor Judy B. Cochran.

Hughes’ post said the male gator weighed in at 580 pounds.

The woman's kill recently went down at her ranch in Goodrich, the Houston Chronicle reported.

"We think this is the gator that ate one of our miniature horses several years ago, as big as this gator was, he could’ve easily eaten it,” Cochran told the newspaper. “Typically the gators don’t bother us, but we’ve been looking for (this one).”

Cochran said the creature would be used for food and fashion.

“Moye Taxidermy will be processing it, we’ll eat the meat, have the head mounted and have the ridgeback part of the tail in my office,” she explained.

Cochran added, “We’ll have the hide tanned to make some boots out of it, you can only make boots from the belly.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: alligator
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To: SkyDancer
Plus it doesn’t look like she’s holding the rifle correctly - using glasses with a scope and her eye relief looks too far away.

Maybe she was only posing afterwards in that pic.

41 posted on 09/19/2018 9:23:26 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

Eohippus?


42 posted on 09/19/2018 9:26:26 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: SkyDancer

Rim on a 30 30 is .506”. .44 mag is .514”.

I’m guessing a manufacturer would use the same tube for both. I’ve been a machinist, .008” is not critical in that application.


43 posted on 09/19/2018 9:27:03 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: ETL

Betty White feeding her li’l buddy- to her BIG buddy!


44 posted on 09/19/2018 9:28:39 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ETL
If you think ALLIGATORS are bad...

JURASSIC LARK Woolly Mammoths will roam new Jurassic Park-style theme park with cave lions and extinct horses in TEN YEARS, Russian scientists say

45 posted on 09/19/2018 9:40:52 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The rifle she’s using isn’t a lever action, looks like a tube fed Marlin bolt action, possibly 22 mag.


46 posted on 09/19/2018 9:45:16 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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To: Dusty Road

Didn’t see the second photo. Yep, 22 caliber.


47 posted on 09/19/2018 9:52:02 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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To: JimRed

Yup.


48 posted on 09/19/2018 9:56:23 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

What? That’s a great movie. I remember being a kid on family vacation to Vegas and Dad watching that movie late at night while Mom was trying to sleep in the other bed. A classic!


49 posted on 09/19/2018 9:59:11 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (End the Mueller Gestapo now. Free the Donald.)
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To: ETL

Looks like it.


50 posted on 09/19/2018 11:11:20 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: CrazyIvan

What’s the standard outside diameter of a .22 rifle barrel?


51 posted on 09/19/2018 11:13:05 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: raybbr

Meaning Senators and Congressmen....right?


52 posted on 09/19/2018 11:18:31 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: SkyDancer

I’m not sure such exists. I measured my old Reminton 511 which is pretty generic and it is .760 at the chamber tapering to .610 at the muzzle I don’t have an octagonal barrel to check. I’m almost certain they never taper.


53 posted on 09/19/2018 11:52:14 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Okay, thanks.


54 posted on 09/19/2018 11:58:59 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ETL
Hey, I remember that movie.
55 posted on 09/19/2018 1:35:46 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Colonel (Retired) USAF)
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To: OKSooner

Grandma thinks it might be the gator from years ago who ate the horse. She can’t prove it. She can’t prove the horse was even eaten, just that it went missing. If she was that upset at the time, she should have loaded her shotgun way back then. Yep, same as Ford.


56 posted on 09/19/2018 2:35:30 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: All

I was party to the murder of a gator this size shot by a Ruger Mark IV .22 LR autopistol

At about 30 yards range

Matthews Brake in the Mississippi Delta near Egypt Plantation

A bunch of southern lads ..long haired stoned on Colombian weed and drinking a little “pull” ..peach brandy..duck hunters at duck camp in a warm spell during duck season

One of them saw the gator and fired off a shot jokingly

The gator started spinning like a mofo

And then stopped dead as a door nail

We quickly grabbed a duck boat and went on and grabbed the gator and towed it to shore and stashed it under bags of decoys

Funniest part was when another friend came down from the camp house and we asked him to go behind the canoe over there and bring a bag of decoys over

LoL....man it was so funny to watch him leap

It was 1976 or 77

Illegal of course

A leather maker used the hide well and we ate the meats...another taxidermist bud did the claws we put over the door in the main chow hall....it was an old depot that had been towed out there and put on pilings at the edge of the swamp.

It was a dangerous duck camp....I got shot there and my friend got his leg nicely cleaved by a .41 mag model 57

It’s an NWR now ....sadly


57 posted on 02/26/2019 7:15:27 PM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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Be interesting to see what follows regarding laws, protected
species etc.

NUISANCE ALLIGATOR PROTOCOL
Landowners will be able to contract directly with nuisance alligator control
hunters under new rules adopted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.
The new protocol will authorize a permitted nuisance alligator control
hunter to contract directly with a landowner or a landowner’s agent
(including a political subdivision, governmental entity, or property owner’s
association) for a fee or other compensation for the removal of nuisance alligators.

https://www.tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1011.pdf


58 posted on 02/26/2019 7:30:42 PM PST by deport
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To: wardaddy

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-of-the-lady-in-red


59 posted on 02/26/2019 9:59:34 PM PST by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham

Fascinating and totally new to me


60 posted on 02/28/2019 12:53:07 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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