Gators!

[firemedic]

Or north Alabama,....I'm with you Tom.

[dub]

Texas has more than one season. It is by county.

But if a gator is going after a person or your dog you can shoot them. If you shoot a gator to protect person or dog you can't keep it. You have to report It too.

[shsu11]

Texas has a September season for the core counties which are most of the coastal counties and a few others. If your county is not a core county then the season is either April-June or may- June. Also if you're in a non core county you do not have to apply for tags before you harvest a gator. After you kill a gator you then fill out a harvest document that you get from the txpw website then they will send you a tag. One of the places we hunt in magnolia has had 7 killed this year.

[ETHHunters]

Texas has a September season for the core counties which are most of the coastal counties and a few others. If your county is not a core county then the season is either April-June or may- June. Also if you're in a non core county you do not have to apply for tags before you harvest a gator. After you kill a gator you then fill out a harvest document that you get from the txpw website then they will send you a tag. One of the places we hunt in magnolia has had 7 killed this year.

That's how it is in our counties.

[jdt]

they have been seen in tn !  in the mississippee north of memphis .

[make-em-squeel]

If your standing at the edge of a pond after a bay with a freshly killed hog will gators mess with you ??

That sh!t scares this Tx boy, thats for the Lousiana and Florida guys

[goose]

just give them time and they will be just like hogs and will be everywhere they are the ultimate predator who has been able to adapt to every environmental change ever thrown at them the last several million years..we lost two sure nuff dogs last yr to gators first was a red tick gyp that was killed in a gravel pit it was later found out  ppl would pull up there on thier four wheelers and feed them and the gators heard our bikes that night and when the dogs went by the water to get a drink one nabbed her...ppl think its so fun and neat to feed them but they dnt realize that they are PREDATORS first and foremost that have millions of yrs of only the best to the best of genetics that have been engineered to do two things breed and survive by any means neccessary and that means eating anything that doesnt eat them first...now whose to say that could have very well been some unsuspecting kids who ride all around these woods this time of yr bc there are alot of camps around going for a swim at night in that gravel pit like they have for years the gator that got our dog could have very easily taken a grown man down....as far as gators moving north my grandfather was a wildlife biologists for lsu and the state of florida and later wildlife conservationist of the year for the state of florida while at lsu his thing was turkeys, whitetailed deer, and GATORS he used to trade alligators from la for turkeys from the university of alabama....one of his projects was studying the northern migratory patterns of the alligator and this was in the 60's and 70's and they were studying them as far north as memphis then so whos to say they havent moved farther north since then....

[slimhogdog]

I've never had a gator mess with us or my dogs while hunting(knock on wood). I usually take care of them first...

[Backwoods]

Gators, here in Florida is just some thing we have to learn to live with.  I catch  alligators for FWC and get some where between 75 and 150 gators a year.  I am going to night to catch a gator that killed a mans dog in Holmes county .  Its like goose said ,, PEOPLE are, more times than not, the reason a gator becomes a problem. most gators dont want anything to do with a person , but a dog  well they sure love a dog.  Goose when you said , a predator  that has adapted and over come  every enviornmental change, I thought you were talking about my ex-wife. LOL  You better hope she never moves into your county.

[DSmith]

I had a fine yound gyp get killed by a gator about 4 years ago as she was swimming across a pond after a hog, and it was only a 7 footer. That was in Atascosa County, in south central Texas.  Most of the ponds on the land that  I hunt have at least one gator, if not more. 
My personal belief.  Protect the ones that are on public land, but for those that choose to live on your own property, leave it's disposition up to the land owner.  They are no longer in danger of going extinct.  The land owner should have the right to decide if they want something on their land that has the potential to eat livestock, dogs, and or them.
My 2 cents

[Black Smith]

i went to check the mail the other day and had a little on in my culvert only in south louisiana!!!

[dub]

kemmercurs that is when I would start carrying a gun. Shoot the gator going after your dog and call TPWD and tell them where it is.

[Reuben]

I had a fine yound gyp get killed by a gator about 4 years ago as she was swimming across a pond after a hog, and it was only a 7 footer. That was in Atascosa County, in south central Texas.  Most of the ponds on the land that  I hunt have at least one gator, if not more. 
My personal belief.  Protect the ones that are on public land, but for those that choose to live on your own property, leave it's disposition up to the land owner.  They are no longer in danger of going extinct.  The land owner should have the right to decide if they want something on their land that has the potential to eat livestock, dogs, and or them.
My 2 cents

I agree

[Reuben]

If your standing at the edge of a pond after a bay with a freshly killed hog will gators mess with you ??

That sh!t scares this Tx boy, thats for the Lousiana and Florida guys

A friend of mine and his dogs were playing tug of war with a gator over a hog they caught at the edge of a slough. At first he couldn't figure out why he could not pull the 150 pound hog up the bank until he shined the light.

[Riley W]

thats a big ole gator