[Search4Truth]

"I hear ya. Tell ya what, if the sucker moms don't like the method in post #51, they can get rid of it themselves or keep the damned thing in front of their houses. Somehow, I think you won't get many complaints for merely duck taping it and hoisting it into a pickup truck bed. The sucker moms won't be around later when its shot."

LOL. I'm looking at it from a pragmatic business viewpoint. It is easier, safer, and quicker, therefor more profitable, if one man, with nothing more than a pickup with an electric winch and a .38 can dispatch any gator post haste. You shoot it where it lies, and hoist it into the truck with the winch. Then, as you suggested, skin it for the hide, and sell the meat for dog food.

Capturing it, to dispatch later in a private location, to suit the sensitivities of soccer moms, is a whole different business model.

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You shoot it where it lies

Therein lies the problem. I don't have a problem with it, but there are laws against that in populated areas. I don't think you'll be successful getting an exception.

Capturing it, to dispatch later in a private location, to suit the sensitivities of soccer moms, is a whole different business model.

I know, but that business model works just fine where I live. I think you might be underestimating the incredible desire many have to bag a gator just for fun. People around have to enter a lottery, and if they win, pay big bucks for a license to bag just one or two gators. If you offered to let them take a big gator completely out of season, there'd be a line around the corner and you could take your pick of who to employ.

sell the meat for dog food

No way! I pay more for a pound of gator tail at the store than I do for the best cuts of steak. I'm eatin it and washing it down with a cold beer. Dogs get leftovers if they sit nice.