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Thu Oct 1, 2020, 07:29 PM Oct 2020

14 foot, 800 pound alligator killed after dragging boat for two hours

Massive 14ft alligator killed after 800lb beast dragged terrified hunters’ boat around Arkansas lake for two hours

The 14ft, 800lbs behemoth was spotted by four men while they were out hunting on a lake in Arkansas at night. Travis Bearden, his father Gary, brother Cody and friend Tommy Kelley had a permit to hunt alligators and were on Lake Merrisach when the encountered the beast around 11pm. Travis, 31, said he spotted the alligator when sweeping his torch over the water where “you see red eyes” reflecting in the night.

One looked particularly big so they approached it but it managed to dive twice to evade them before they approached it “real slow”. The men cut their engine and honed in on their prey and Travis said he gripped his harpoon and took a shot. “I chucked the spear at it. Then I realised it was a very large gator. It pulled our boat like we had the motor running,” he said. The men then had terrifying two hour ride around the lake courtesy of the alligator.

“We weren’t real sure how big he was when we spotted him, and to our surprise after we harpooned it, it ended up being a giant,” Travis told 5News. Trey Reid, of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, said it was the largest one caught in the history of the state’s alligator hunt. “It might be the largest taken in Arkansas, even back to the 19th century,” he said.

Arkansas began issuing permits to hunt alligators in 2008 in a bid to control numbers with a holder allowed to kill one alligator on public land on one of eight nights in September. An alligator has to be killed first by snaring or harpoon it, and then dispatching it with a shotgun or an underwater firearm.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1562256/massive-alligator-caught-dragged-hunters-boat-lake/

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14 foot, 800 pound alligator killed after dragging boat for two hours (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 OP
such manly men.... dhill926 Oct 2020 #1
boys must be proud nt msongs Oct 2020 #2
Fuckers Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #3
Some people view a 14 foot, 800 pound alligator as a threat left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 #4
I see an overweight orange idiot in the white house as a threat Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #7
I assume you are a vegetarian. n/t left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 #8
What has that got to do with not wanting animals killed for fun? Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #9
It wasn't for 'fun' left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 #10
And with that, this conversation has ended. Ferrets are Cool Oct 2020 #12
:-) left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author left-of-center2012 Oct 2020 #11
They really needed a bigger boat nt Shermann Oct 2020 #5
Kind of a... 2naSalit Oct 2020 #6
Gators in Arkansas? benld74 Oct 2020 #14

Ferrets are Cool

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9. What has that got to do with not wanting animals killed for fun?
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:08 PM
Oct 2020

And NO, a 14 foot alligator would NOT be good eating. Even in Arkansas.

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2naSalit

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6. Kind of a...
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 08:38 PM
Oct 2020

Fractured Fairy Tales version of Mr. Toad's wild ride!

At least the gator gave them a two hour tour of the lake with great uncertainty before they killed it. That thing is hugh.

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