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Catching a 13-Foot Alligator in South Carolina's Marion Lake
Catching a 13-Foot Alligator in South Carolina's Marion Lake
In the wee hours of October 10, 2009, six men and a boy harvested a 1,060-pound 13-foot 2-inch alligator from a Lake Marion swamp on the last day of South Carolina’s Alligator Hunting Season. The battle played out over 2 hours in the pre-dawn darkness before the gargantuan-sized ’gator was subdued. Scroll through the rest of the slides for the entire story.
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bet you can make a bunch of boots out of him
Is that a South Carolina state record? I wish they had a film of it taking out of the water, I can only imagine the production of taking a small bus of a lake.
Should of read slide 19 first.
Wow- now that's a beast of an animal.
Wow- now that's a beast of an animal.
I've seen gators that big in the Okefenokee and a couple of other places. I imagine when they snagged him and started getting dragged around, and then figuring out how big that rascal was, somebody if not all of them had an "oh s#!+" moment.
Wow! 70 lbs of meat from this beast! No one's going hungry in their house this winter
I'm kind of suprised that ONLY 70 pounds of meat came off of a half ton animal. But I would bet the skin on that gator was a significant source of weight.
They've been getting some big gators in South Carolina. Congrats to these guys.
I live in Fleming Island, Florida and in my pond about 4 weeks ago the animal trappers caught a 12 ft. gator it weighed about 900 lbs. It was huge, inside of it there was 3 cranes!
that's a big one
Ahhh maybe each hunter got 70 lbs of meat?
Congrats gents.
This reminds me of the joke about the blond who complained about the cost of alligator shoes. The store manager suggested she go to the swamp down the road and get her own. On his way home after work he passes a car parked by the road and looks down into the swamp and sees this blond waist-deep in the water with a shot-gun. When he stops and gets out, he sees three dead gators on the bank. "My god, Woman! How many you gonna kill?" he asks.
She says, "I'm going to keep at it till I find one that's not bare-footed!"
i live in ohio and i can't even imagine a gator that big. heck after i knew it was dead i still probably wouldn't want to get too close to it until i've seen it dead for a couple hours first. i'd be worried i just knocked him out. hahahaha
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I'm kind of suprised that ONLY 70 pounds of meat came off of a half ton animal. But I would bet the skin on that gator was a significant source of weight.
that's a big one
bet you can make a bunch of boots out of him
Is that a South Carolina state record? I wish they had a film of it taking out of the water, I can only imagine the production of taking a small bus of a lake.
Should of read slide 19 first.
Wow- now that's a beast of an animal.
Wow- now that's a beast of an animal.
I've seen gators that big in the Okefenokee and a couple of other places. I imagine when they snagged him and started getting dragged around, and then figuring out how big that rascal was, somebody if not all of them had an "oh s#!+" moment.
Wow! 70 lbs of meat from this beast! No one's going hungry in their house this winter
They've been getting some big gators in South Carolina. Congrats to these guys.
I live in Fleming Island, Florida and in my pond about 4 weeks ago the animal trappers caught a 12 ft. gator it weighed about 900 lbs. It was huge, inside of it there was 3 cranes!
Ahhh maybe each hunter got 70 lbs of meat?
Congrats gents.
This reminds me of the joke about the blond who complained about the cost of alligator shoes. The store manager suggested she go to the swamp down the road and get her own. On his way home after work he passes a car parked by the road and looks down into the swamp and sees this blond waist-deep in the water with a shot-gun. When he stops and gets out, he sees three dead gators on the bank. "My god, Woman! How many you gonna kill?" he asks.
She says, "I'm going to keep at it till I find one that's not bare-footed!"
i live in ohio and i can't even imagine a gator that big. heck after i knew it was dead i still probably wouldn't want to get too close to it until i've seen it dead for a couple hours first. i'd be worried i just knocked him out. hahahaha
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