Posted on 09/01/2023 1:29:29 PM PDT by DFG
Thought last week’s Mississippi monster was impressive?
A team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online.
“I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida Gator Hunting, told Orlando station WESH 2 of corralling the huge beast.
Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds.
The lifelong Floridian said he’d never “experienced anything like this” in his 20 years as a charter boat captain.
Grotz and his team found the behemoth reptile in a lake near an Orlando population hub and knew they had to remove it to keep people safe.
“Ultimately, if a beast of that size gets a hold of you or, God forbid, a child, the odds are tough,” said Grotz, who got to work removing the gargantuan gator right away.
Wrassling the reptile was no small feat.
“Honestly, my first concern was safety because we were in a smaller boat,” Grotz said. “And then you add a gator whose head is this big. All he has to do is turn, and we’re in trouble.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
FL knows what its doing when it comes to gator harvesting. Just like PA and other states know what they’re doing when it comes to deer harvesting.
Just noticed that the NY Post article has the guys name wrong. Article has Kevin Grotz. Correct name is Kevin Brotz.
Damn....I think that’s worse than the PSU one.
It was the talk of the college football world when it happened. That was also the infamous game against Georgia Southern.
But then I read the article.
-PJ
The bigger they get, the more of a threat they are.
They have to eat. The bigger they are the more they need to eat.
That gator has almost certainly killed and eaten a lot of pet cats and dogs.
Wow.
When I see creatures like that, that really do little more than EAT for a lifetime, I always stop and ask, ‘Why, God? Why?’
But then, I ask Him that a LOT these days, LOL!
That’s a lotta gator etoufee eats. As for me , no likey- too rubbery tasting.
classy!
That gator has almost certainly killed and eaten a lot of pet cats and dogs.
————
Maybe a few homeless, too…
A gator that big probably ate a few deer or cows.
A lot of the big ones are on private lakes where guides fatten em up for harvest season. Not really impressive that way.
I did the same thing. Yikes!
shame they killedit for fun.
The alligator is below us humans on the evolution chain. Every animal is. Except maybe Siamese cats.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.