Massive gator in the backyard today

[Field28]

 

[Altitude sickness]

Man that is a Dandy. 12-13 footer ?

 

[liam375]

his jowls are so big he looks very well fed. 10 ft plus for sure

 

[Field28]

Big She-Gator on the nest.
Every bit of 12-13ft.

Saw her back and top of head in the water yesterday evening and knew she was big but didn't realize how big until she hauled out today.

Scary thing is that I had been spreading mulch 15-20 yards from that spot. I went back into the fenced portion of the backyard to stake up some tomatoes, looked up and there she was.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Wow, some towels on that old girl!

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Boots!

 

[Hooked Now]

Practice these words with a straight face, "Warden, she was coming right for me." And then hope that they don't notice you are already heating up the grease in the fryer.

 

[BRICKBURN]

......... I went back into the fenced portion of the backyard .......

No doubt.

 

['68boy]

30-06 right behind the eye. Suppressed if possible.

 

[Gerty]

Not sure if the same applies to gators but I listened to a podcast on African croc hunting and a trick to estimate croc length is: for every inch between the nostrils to eyes = 1 ft of overall length.

 

[Daggaboy375]

You are not the top of the food chain in your own back yard.

 

[Field28]

Not sure if the same applies to gators but I listened to a podcast on African croc hunting and a trick to estimate croc length is: for every inch between the nostrils to eyes = 1 ft of overall length.

Same applies, that's the rule of thumb I've always used.

 

[leslie hetrick]

it needs to be removed, one way or the other. before someone loses their life over it.

 

[Field28]

You are not the top of the food chain in your own back yard.

I've posted about this awhile back.
One of our neighbors was taken in his backyard about five years ago.

Similar situation, she-gator on the nest. The gator charged him and pulled him in the pond and drowned him. The gator then brought the body across the pond into the canal right next to our driveway.

She was just under 12ft, no predation, just defending her young.
She was dispatched by a DNR gator agent.

Those really large ones come from the ICW and have no business being in a neighborhood retention pond.

 

[Daggaboy375]

Location?
Where in SC?

 

[Daggaboy375]

This is from a farm pond in Murrell’s Inlet near ICW.

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Wow, new belt, boots, rifle case and maybe some luggage out of that one! I’m sure the gator bites might be a little chewy though.

 

[JE245]

She’s been around a long time. It would be interesting to see how many dog tags are in her stomach.

 

[Paul K]

Wow. That makes my Groundhog problem kind of trivial.

Paul

 

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