06-22-2011, 04:06 PM | #1 |
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Check out this TEXAS gator
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06-22-2011, 04:10 PM | #2 |
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Wonder how long that turd is
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06-22-2011, 04:51 PM | #3 |
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Leon county is a good bit off the coast. This gator got old by being smart.
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06-22-2011, 05:22 PM | #4 |
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Deceptive photos, but probably 12 feet long.
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06-22-2011, 06:03 PM | #5 |
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So that's where Mercs been...
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06-22-2011, 10:05 PM | #6 |
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Damn! My heart would stop if I came on such a critter.
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06-22-2011, 10:09 PM | #7 |
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PS - These devils are slowly spreading farther and farther into Texas. I suspect there are some near or in San Antonio by now. I know that a dozen years ago they were within 50 miles of SAT. Not big ones that I ever saw but they've got a nasty way of growing.
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06-22-2011, 10:40 PM | #8 |
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Not too many years ago Texas had Crocs too.
When folks turned loose their Nutria (You know, the South American Beaver) then Texas reintroduced the crocs, seems the Nutria only had one natural enemy, crocodiles. Gators and Crocs are in Florida, moving West would be a natural thing, I would think? |
06-23-2011, 12:19 AM | #9 |
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A fella I know has a few hundred acres in Normangee Texas located south of Dallas, he has a few tanks that have gators.
I've never seen a crock in Texas but I've seen hundreds of alligators. Also lots of Nutria rats ... used to shoot hell out of them. |
06-23-2011, 01:17 AM | #10 |
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Yes....deceptive photos are the norm now. Still a big gator.
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06-23-2011, 05:45 AM | #11 |
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A few years back another 880 pounder was killed in Lufkin.
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06-23-2011, 09:46 AM | #12 |
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The gators are welcome to all the nutria they want.
I've seen scads of gators in tanks. They don't really care...so long as a place is wet and they can hide. Kinda adds a new dimension to fishing a stock tank. |
06-23-2011, 09:55 AM | #13 |
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There's a guy in Hagerman, Idaho, one of the first trout farmers.
Feeds his trout offal to gators that he raises. The huge gator house is fed by an artesian hot water spring. He has been raising the gators for enough years that he is now consider a gator breeder. No longer has to buy the baby gators to raise. |
06-23-2011, 11:46 AM | #14 |
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You guys want gators. We will send you all you want.
Could they spread too colder climates, you bet they can. Northern Fla. here. What they do is burrow in too the banks and make a den, like beavers for the winter, hibernate. Warms up, they come out. My God were loaded with them. Gator tags this year, two hunts. $285 gets you two gators, per hunt. Assistants pay $52?? too help. Where is all my p.m.s too go gator hunting.
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06-23-2011, 11:08 PM | #15 |
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So what's the problem? It's a good way to get rid of illegals that run into boolits.
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