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Shooter's alligator hunt
Uploaded By: Shooter. Added on: 11 July 2011.
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My first Alligator. Thanks to my friend Vince for taking the video. It shows the time immedeately after the shot when they are dragging the dead gator out of the water and as 'warned' by folks on AR and NE forums i was asked if i would like to help.
We are dragging the gator out of the water.
As you can see despite being dead and the buoyancy, it takes 2 to just drag him out.
it took 5 to haul it in the truck.
in the beginning you can see me emerge from the right with a remi700 slung on my shoulder. i was behind the bushes.
furthurin the video, you can hear me saying 'i got buck fever in the beginning'.
As you are aware, even the biggest croc/gator has a walnut sized brain.
If it is swimming, one has to ensure instant death else it will dive and be lost for ever since no one will go to retrieve a carcass in bloodied gator infested swamp.
So it has to hit the brain precisely ie 2.5-3 inch behind the eye in the flat. Anywhere else and you lose the gator.
Now what people do is snare it, pull it and then hit it with a bangstick in public waters or with a rifle in private land. i DID NOT want to shoot it after it is snared. I wanted to wait unseen till a big'un is visible, then try to stalk close as possible and then shoot it.
Now the reason for stalking to 40-50 yards is so that the guide and team can run towards it as quickly as possible, then lasso it as quickly as possible because soon the other gators come in for the free dinner.
Also, gators dont get big by being dumb so the big 'uns dont take chances and scatter off on seeing us humans.
Now the most important thing a guide can do besides retrieving it for you is to tell you the approx size just by looking at the eyes of a swimming gator (the rest is not visible).
So when told this one was a big'un, and knowing i couldnt miss even by a few centimetres, i got buckfever.
I did some deep breathing and allowed the adrnaline to flow through without resisting it.
the shot went home and you can see the gator turned over belly up. Instant death within one second. hence the backgroung voices of 'good shot'
We are dragging the gator out of the water.
As you can see despite being dead and the buoyancy, it takes 2 to just drag him out.
it took 5 to haul it in the truck.
in the beginning you can see me emerge from the right with a remi700 slung on my shoulder. i was behind the bushes.
furthurin the video, you can hear me saying 'i got buck fever in the beginning'.
As you are aware, even the biggest croc/gator has a walnut sized brain.
If it is swimming, one has to ensure instant death else it will dive and be lost for ever since no one will go to retrieve a carcass in bloodied gator infested swamp.
So it has to hit the brain precisely ie 2.5-3 inch behind the eye in the flat. Anywhere else and you lose the gator.
Now what people do is snare it, pull it and then hit it with a bangstick in public waters or with a rifle in private land. i DID NOT want to shoot it after it is snared. I wanted to wait unseen till a big'un is visible, then try to stalk close as possible and then shoot it.
Now the reason for stalking to 40-50 yards is so that the guide and team can run towards it as quickly as possible, then lasso it as quickly as possible because soon the other gators come in for the free dinner.
Also, gators dont get big by being dumb so the big 'uns dont take chances and scatter off on seeing us humans.
Now the most important thing a guide can do besides retrieving it for you is to tell you the approx size just by looking at the eyes of a swimming gator (the rest is not visible).
So when told this one was a big'un, and knowing i couldnt miss even by a few centimetres, i got buckfever.
I did some deep breathing and allowed the adrnaline to flow through without resisting it.
the shot went home and you can see the gator turned over belly up. Instant death within one second. hence the backgroung voices of 'good shot'
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