Texas gator

[Jack]

I had an old hunting friend forward this to me last week.

Below is a picture taken by a KTBS helicopter that was flying over a lake between Athens and Palestine, Texas, an area I used to hunt several years ago.

This is a picture of an alligator that has a deer in it's mouth.

[Jack]

Now it's kind of hard to tell the size of this gator due to not knowing the distant the photo is taken or the size of this doe. 

You guys look at the photo above and this photo and try to guess the size of this gator.

[Jack]

Have you guessed yet? 

[Jack]

I don't know what you guessed but one little hint, that's a pretty big doe that the gator has had for lunch.

[Jack]

Here he is, how close was your guess?

The gator was shot in the back of Anita and Charlie Rogers home. They said they could hear this large bellowing sound at night but were not sure what it was. Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alliagtor in the waterway that runs behind their house but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations.

Joe Goff, a 6ft 5in tall game warden with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department walks past the 23 foor, 1 inch alligator that he shot in the Rogers backyard.

[jb]

Damnit, I sure wish people would stop killing off all our baby alligators~!  Pretty soon Louisiana will have all the big ones. 

[PeeWee]

I had an old hunting friend forward this to me last week.

Below is a picture taken by a KTBS helicopter that was flying over a lake between Athens and Palestine, Texas, an area I used to hunt several years ago.

This is a picture of an alligator that has a deer in it's mouth.

I saw the movie. Lake Placid   Bridget Fonda.

Peewee

[JPjr]

Would that be a world record? I saw a live 20' at the Rattlesnake ranch in Fl, when I was a kid. It had killed a 20' African croc that lived in the cage next to it.

[aikorob]

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/gatordeer.asp

Hate to bust your bubble

[Jack]

wow, I kind of thought 23 feet was REAL big, but looking at the photo of it compared to the 6ft 5 guy walking next to it, it looked real big.

When I was looking at the original photo I thought myself it might be about a 12 or 13 ft gator until I saw it next to the man. Thanks Bob, I feel a little better about future hunting in south-east Texas.

[jb]

Jack,

There's a lake on the TX/LA border called Caddo Lake, it has long been thought there were monster gators residing there.  Many sighting and a few captures of big fellows, but I think 23 ft is still a good sized gator.

[Jack]

23 feet is a big!  That gator looked liked a monster. I had to look at it again and again and still it's hard to believe with that size head it's only 13 feet. And seeing the size of the gator at 23 feet I felt good that he had found such a big doe. But at 13 feet, well that's a typical east Texas German shepard size doe I'm afraid.

[Jet]

Check both links that Rob provided!
The 23' gator was real and was from Texas
The 13-14' gator that was in the aerial shots was also real but was a DIFFERENT gator in Georgia

[aikorob]

No Jet,
Read the first link again--follow it to the originating newspaper.

Actually if there are any 20+ footers in the US, you can look near you----maybe in the outflow canals of Turkey Point or St. Lucie  :hairraising: :hairraising:

[Jet]

Alright, guess I didn't read far enough on that first one 
I didn't really find it all that shocking because 16-18 footers are a fairly common sight along the Saint John's River

[Bruno]

Alright, guess I didn't read far enough on that first one 
I didn't really find it all that shocking because 16-18 footers are a fairly common sight along the Saint John's River

The recorde seem to be in Australia... not a gator but a crocodille from 28-foot 4-inch, 8.63 meter

http://www.gulf-savannah.com.au/savannah-way-cairns-to-broome.html

The largest crocodile ever captured was shot by Mrs Krys Pawlowski, a north Queensland taxidermist, in the Norman River, near Normanton Queensland in 1958. Named after its captor ‘Krys the Croc’ measured 8.63-metres and a replica croc now sits in the main street of Normanton in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

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