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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Maybe she was only posing afterwards in that pic.
Eohippus?
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.
Betty White feeding her li’l buddy- to her BIG buddy!
The rifle she’s using isn’t a lever action, looks like a tube fed Marlin bolt action, possibly 22 mag.
Didn’t see the second photo. Yep, 22 caliber.
Yup.
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!
Looks like it.
What’s the standard outside diameter of a .22 rifle barrel?
Meaning Senators and Congressmen....right?
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.
Okay, thanks.
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.
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
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
Fascinating and totally new to me
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