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.”
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BTTT!!!
We could’ve used it on the Offensive Line last night. :^(
ROFLMAO !!!
YOU GET POST OF THE YEAR...IMO !!!
Hors d'oeuvre for that Bad Boy !!!
Yeppers, just like Frog Legs- They DO NOT taste like chicken. They taste like rubber bands marinated in swamp water. Even covered in Hot Sauce made from Habanero Peppers.
p.s., it's pronounced "pee-kohnt."
Yep ........ Lake Charles LA on I-10, ....... taste like Swamp Ass !!! Marinated with a Michelin tire....... “ laissez les bons temps rouler” ..... Diamondback Rattlesnake tastes better when soaked in Blantons Bourbon .....
“bon appetit mon ami”
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