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That is a big Gator
Sam06
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- Mississippi hunter Doug Borries caught the largest alligator by an out of state trapper in Florida which was found to be 13ft 4inches long and 905 pounds
- Borries found the monstrous creature on a private lake after being told about it from a friend who remembered the 80-year-old gator from childhood
- The prized hunter shot the gator on the top of its head using his 7mm STW rifle and then grabbed the creature from the bottom of the lake
- The gator's meat has since been used for processing and its head is currently mounted on Borries' wall
- Borries posted the incredible find on his Facebook page last month which has received nearly 10,000 shares
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That hide would make a lot of cowboy boots! From the looks of the wound at the top of the head, I wonder if his bullet blew up when it hit the bone? Looks almost like an exit wound instead of an entry because of all the tissue damage. I had that happen with a 300wsm on a big whitetail. Almost like a grenade went off and the instant energy transfer killed it instantly. Bob
He shoulda used a bigger gun.....
Tastes like chicken
Mick Dundee's pet gator😕
Just WOW! Retrieving 905 pounds of dead weight from a lake bottom would have been too much for this guy!
Running across a MONSTER like this while out swimming would give me nightmares!
Wait! I'd be gator poop, so forget what I just said! 🤐
Two alligators were sitting around talking, and the smaller alligator turned to the bigger one & said, "I can't understand how you can be so much bigger than me.
We're the same age; we were the same size as kids. I just don't get it."
"Well" said the big gator, "what have you been eating?"
"Politicians, same as you," replied the small Gator.
"Hmm. Well, where do you catch them?"
"Down the other side of the swamp near the parking lot by the Capitol."
"Same here. Hmm. How do you catch them?"
"Well, I crawl up under one of their Lexus cars & wait for one to unlock the car door. Then I jump out, grab them by the leg, shake the crap out of them and eat'em!"
"Ah!" says the big alligator, "I think I see your problem. You're not getting any real nourishment.
See, by the time you finish shaking the crapout of a politician, there's nothing left but a briefcase."
There's a pond on Kennedy Space Center where astronauts were scheduled to do water survival training - except that it harbored a very VERY big gator. After some Florida Game and Fish guys caught it, trussed it, and sedated it, I got on its back and put my arms around those big muscles at the back of its jaws - and could not touch my fingertips together.
While duck hunting on ponds quite near there, I saw a gator on the bank that was longer than my Jon boat. Fortunately, they are pretty torpid when it's cold, because I was wading and towing my boat at the time. KSC is home to thousands of gators, many of them monsters.
There's a story of a woman at the public Visitors' Center trying to pose her young son by one for a photo until the gator had enough and turned away. She had no idea how close her son came to being gator poop.
There is 2 at the Orange County landfill that size. I seen one take a good size hog with one bite. One minute the hog was at the ponds edge and after the gator made his attack the hog just vanished
@Rocky Raab I remember seeing some gators at Kennedy SC when we visited there about 15 years or so ago, there were a lot of them and a few eagles also.
We often had them at the Press Site at KSC. I had one under my car one afternoon after work. It was small enough that I caught it by hand and carried it to a nearby canal, but there was a 10-footer that visited us often enough that I secretly wished it would nab a reporter or two.
If you took the bus tour, you may have seen the giant eagle nest on the way to the VAB area. I have been in that nest, helping to set up remote cameras to document how the eagles raise their young.
Yes sir we did do the bus tour and saw that nest.
Wow,big gator is right
I heard the same joke as a kid 50 + years ago but it involved tennis shoes and some non PC info
choot um hurry choot um
I agree had to be a struggle? pulling 900 pounds off the bottom of a lake
Considering displacement, you'd only be pulling up around 360 lbs. Once he broke the surface though, all bets are off!
Gators are neutrally buoyant, you realize. Or nearly so. They can float or dive at will. You could move a dead one around easily in the water.
The rule of thumb in Florida is; If there is a wet spot, there's a gator in it.
I came up on a dead one that someone shot in the head, pulled my boat up next to it and it was as long as my boat (15'10")
He was about three and a half feet wide and his head was an easy three feet or better long and his snout was about 18" wide.
To roughly judge the length of a gator in the water, the distance in inches from his nose to his eyes (which is almost all you can see of them while in the water) is approximately his overall length in feet.
We have definitely got some huge gators in Florida but Alligators in general are relatively docile and non confrontational except during the mating season (May-June) when they are extremely aggressive. Gators also tend to travel around a lot during mating looking for love in all the wrong places like your yard, your pool, crossing major highways etc.
Females are also extremely aggressive anywhere around their nest and when the babies hatch.
Also, we DON'T swim at night here in Florida in fresh or salt water as we are no where near the top of the food chain in either place.
Tastes like airline passengers.....
Girl was seen in Florida wading out into ponds and when an alligator swam up she'd shoot it and drag it to shore, look it over, yell something and wade back out into the pond
Guy got closer so he could hear, and sure enough she got another, drug him up on shore, looked him over and threw her head back and hollered "This one ain't wearin boots neither!!!"
That may be the groaner of the week, Nanuq, LOL!
was she a blonde?
I'm mostly impressed by the amount of weight that gutter supports! 🙄
I'll bet the gator is hooked to something besides the gutter.
Tractor or lift of some sort.