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Y’all are crazy hunting out there around those gators lol. I’d load the box up and head back home. I’ve hunted one area on public land that has some gators. We were hunting when it was still cold and ran in to a guy my buddy knew, he said when it gets warm they’re all over the place there. I won’t be there during that time... lol
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Comes with the territory where I live, they are as much of a part of our lives as mosquitoes are around here, there’s not as many but we’re starting to see quite a few up in the farm country I hunt but all of the waterways that start in those hills all drain to the Pearl River, on most of the places I hunt in the swamps along the river the hogs are considered a pest and the gators a trophy, and you kill one of their big gators you’ll be turned in to the warden and become black balled throughout the land owners, one place in particular I refuse to hunt in the summer the landowner actually “farms” big gators in there just to hunt them, he’s real big in the cattle business and keeps them fed with dead calves, one set of his pens is right by a big creek and one of his hands killed a huge gator that was sitting by the weaning pens, had it been legally killed he would’ve been a state record, there’s an old ox bow lake off the river that hogs love to swim, the day I quit hunting in there was the day I saw 2 different bull gators that were easily 13 ft in that lake, I haven’t been back in warmer weather since, if it’s been real dry and not a lot of rain I try to avoid the swamp, the hogs are going to head to water and when water is scarce in the swamp the gators are congregated around it or the hogs hit the river, some folks are willing to risk it but I won’t hunt the marsh in warm weather either, that’s just asking for it, buddy of mine had a dog swimming the river after a hog and was in the boat and was literally 20 ft from his dog trying to catch him when a gator snagged him and pulled him under...
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That’s wild, Goose. I’m in SC, we hunt a lot of cornfields and swamps/river. But we walk hunt everywhere and that includes wading through nasty water/mud at times, or swimming the river. I couldn’t imagine doing that knowing there were a bunch of gators swimming around. Do y’all have many attacks on people?
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Luckily for us it’s pretty rare to see a gator around where I’m at. Only time a remember seeing any was several years ago while fishing on the saluda river up by the damn, there were a decent bit out there. But I’ve never seen one around where we hunt
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That’s wild, Goose. I’m in SC, we hunt a lot of cornfields and swamps/river. But we walk hunt everywhere and that includes wading through nasty water/mud at times, or swimming the river. I couldn’t imagine doing that knowing there were a bunch of gators swimming around. Do y’all have many attacks on people?
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Not very frequently at least around my area, the Pearl stretches for several hundred miles ,but it’s coming, each year there’s big gators killed all amongst camps and high recreational areas such as sand bars and the corp of engineers canals in my area, down around the mouth of it is around the Slidell area and they have quite a few swamp tours that are your Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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Dang phone, tourist attractions and they feed the gators so now they are slowly losing their fear and are associating the boats with food, there’s a reason our ancestors removed them from the waterways around here to begin with....
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That’s what I was saying down here we’re I live ain’t To many that’s y I would fix it if I found them showing up but that’s where y’all live so kinda hard to fix that would take awhile
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That’s what I was saying down here we’re I live ain’t To many that’s y I would fix it if I found them showing up but that’s where y’all live so kinda hard to fix that would take awhile
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My advice is if and when they start showing up its best to just keep your mouth shut and do what needs to be done, and be careful who you talk to and about what, a few doesn’t hurt anything but when the numbers get like we’ve got them here in south la and our neighbors in fla then it becomes a nuisance and a hazard when there’s that many mouths to feed, and if I’m not mistaken the gator farms who harvest wild eggs have to turn loose like 15% of their hatchlings or something to that nature back to wild... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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What’s the restrictions on killing them for y’all? Like say one was going towards a dog or a person, are you then legally allowed to shoot it or would it have to be a hush-hush thing? I know what I’d do in that situation, but I also am typically on private land where getting caught wouldn’t be too much of a worry
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What’s the restrictions on killing them for y’all? Like say one was going towards a dog or a person, are you then legally allowed to shoot it or would it have to be a hush-hush thing? I know what I’d do in that situation, but I also am typically on private land where getting caught wouldn’t be too much of a worry
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Common sense does prevail every once in a while and a situation like that would have to be up to the discrepancy of the officer I suppose, but around my neck of the woods and the folks in my circle stuff gets taking care of as it should , believe me there's plenty that get killed every year but no where near enough to even put ding in the population.... |
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We as humans are at the top of the food chain...we as a people have regulated ourselves to ensure a healthy balance of wildlife and habitat In our environment...the appointed regulators are doing a lousy job...seems they lack common sense and sound logic...we are letting the alligator population exceed a proper balance...we are over protecting a creature that the numbers need reducing to protect the other animals from all these alligators...if the gators were followed closely so that we could learn more about what they eat then we would reduce their numbers and two things would happen...we would see quite a bit more wildlife including a big variety of wildlife in a few short years and the gators would gain a healthy respect for humans in general...
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we're seeing gators way up in tn now and thats never happened before .
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How do you hog doggers do it where gators are? so many bays end up in water and I assume pigs and baying dogs bring the gator right in ... seems like you would loose lots of dogs, im always in water stabbing pigs, do you have to worry about doing that?
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I’ve been lucky I guess... never lost one to a gator. All of east Texas and the entire Texas coast is loaded with alligators.
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Mike
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A couple of big gators caught yesterday by some folks we know. A 13’ from the east side of Houston and a 12’5” from the west side of Houston...   Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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Gives me the chills knowing I was walking in water where those live.
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Thirteen footer is a big gator...
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do yall have a guy with a gun and light on the bank scan for eyes and shoot or just jump right in?
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do yall have a guy with a gun and light on the bank scan for eyes and shoot or just jump right in?
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do yall have a guy with a gun and light on the bank scan for eyes and shoot or just jump right in?
No sir, we catch them on a hook and line. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro very cool ... Sorry to clarify my ??, when the dogs are bayed in the water and your trying to catch a pig, not a gator, do you have any method to be safe b4 you send in the cd and stab the pig on the edge of a pond or creek? |
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