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Catch of the day! Whopping 900lb, 13ft alligator that feasted on livestock around a south Florida lake for 80 years is shot dead by a hunter
Daily Mail ^ | 4 February 2022 | By TOMMY TAYLOR

Posted on 02/06/2022 8:52:52 AM PST by Hojczyk

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To: Hojczyk

Question....HTF do you get the gator up 13 ft. To HANG HIM ON THAT LITTLE HOOK????


21 posted on 02/06/2022 9:17:29 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dangus

(After for disappearing for 6 or 7 years after The Golden Girls, her career began a comeback with Lake Placid, a movie about an enormous and strangely northerly alligator. It was a small part in a bad movie, but she totally stole the show as the most lovable villain ever. “Frankly, I’m rooting for the alligator.”)


22 posted on 02/06/2022 9:18:25 AM PST by dangus
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To: mel

I don’t like snakes either. When I was a little girl, my cousin killed a water moccasin with a hoe. She was only a teenager at the time, and boy, was that impressive!


23 posted on 02/06/2022 9:19:29 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: KierkegaardMAN

GOD.....I remember that like it was yesterday!!! SADLY, the signs saying NO SWIMMING was NOT honored by the parents!!


24 posted on 02/06/2022 9:20:01 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

If that’s the story that made headlines, then I remember it. It was very sad.


25 posted on 02/06/2022 9:20:52 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Hojczyk

They’d have been better off catching it and training it to eat the Burmese pythons the idiots released into the swamp in Florida that are now breeding out of control. Gators are opportunistic feeders so they would have to be taught to track the snakes. After all, that’s what they do anyway.

wy69


26 posted on 02/06/2022 9:20:53 AM PST by whitney69
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To: FamiliarFace

We used to SWIM In A CRICK ...CREEK TO CITY folks...with a lot of water Moccasins! YIKES!!! YOUTH IS STUPID,


27 posted on 02/06/2022 9:21:36 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Hojczyk

That’s one big puppy there


28 posted on 02/06/2022 9:23:20 AM PST by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 )
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To: Hojczyk

That’s a lot of meat. What do they taste like?


29 posted on 02/06/2022 9:23:46 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If truckers quit their jobs, society would collapse. If politicians quit their jobs...HALLELUJAH!)
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To: Hojczyk
The creature was then shot at the top of its head

Can't say I ever saw an entry hole that large.

30 posted on 02/06/2022 9:25:26 AM PST by fso301
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To: Hojczyk

I did a lot of fishing on Big Orange and Little Orange lakes in Alachua County when I was a kid.

Monster largemouth bass and great bluegill/brim fishing. We saw some big gators and if you went out there at night with a spotlight it was creepy. There are way more gators in the lake than you think!

Fond memories.


31 posted on 02/06/2022 9:26:11 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: EEGator

They were around when I was a kid, but not like they are now. Now they are way too abundant. Not endangered by any means.


32 posted on 02/06/2022 9:28:05 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Hojczyk

Sasquatch needs a new pair of shoes!


33 posted on 02/06/2022 9:30:18 AM PST by null and void (81 million votes ≠ 81 million voters)
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To: Hojczyk

A perfect shot! Between the eyes...and out of the back of the skull!


34 posted on 02/06/2022 9:30:25 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: livius

If you’ve ever been on Kennedy Space Center it would spook you. Game preserve and there are a LOT of gators there. One had to keep an eye out at night walking between buildings. 🐊


35 posted on 02/06/2022 9:31:04 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Hojczyk

Gators will never get as big as they used to because of hunting and sprawl. That’s why the bigger gators being harvested of late have came out of states other than Florida. Alabama being the prime example.


36 posted on 02/06/2022 9:31:24 AM PST by Theoria
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To: Hojczyk

The part that interested me was the 7MM STW.

https://www.americanhunter.org/content/an-ode-to-the-7mm-stw/

If he killed the gator from 500 yards, he is really a great shot. Or heavily relying on technology. Range finder and advanced scope.

Either way, this shot is almost like the one made by Billy Dixon at Adobe Wall II. (his famous shot was 3/4 of a mile With a Sharps, in June 27, 1874).


37 posted on 02/06/2022 9:32:16 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: livius

I’d just as soon get rid of every last one of them. They’re a great mascot, but other than that, I’d like there not to be any more of them. A few at a farm would be enough for the whole state.


38 posted on 02/06/2022 9:33:27 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: Ann Archy; Daffynition
Question....HTF do you get the gator up 13 ft. To HANG HIM ON THAT LITTLE HOOK????

I was thinking, "What brand of gutter is that?" ;)

39 posted on 02/06/2022 9:34:26 AM PST by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
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To: volunbeer

I used to water ski on Little Orange. Those were the good ole days for sure!


40 posted on 02/06/2022 9:34:56 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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