Main Difference Between a Crock and a Gator

[Wyandot Jim]

Now you know.

 

[Feel the 'Pane]

While I'm not sure which is which - the 1 on the right looks like ex-wife #1 & the 1 on the left ex-wife #2...

 

[Bob Wright]

Crocs also tend to get larger and are more aggressive. They are pushing the gator population out of their habitat in parts of Florida.

Last night on Monster Quest there was something about gators in the sewers of New Yark City.

And a gator is nothing to toy around with.

Bob Wright

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Gators have made a comeback and are showing up in many places.
We have had them in our neighborhood. Neighbors have called to have them removed. If they would call me we would have fried Gator

The Saltwater Crocks of Australia grow to size Double Extra Large

This one was about 2 miles from me.
In September, police officers in Katy relocated an alligator weighing at least 400 pounds and measuring close to 11 feet from the area's Cinco Ranch neighborhood with the help of a tow truck and some alligator wranglers.

This one was on a beach close to Galveston.

Scientists in Texas have reported a rare gator sighting near Galveston Island.

 

[GunnyGene]

MS has a gator season every year. Opens on May 5th this year for a particular location (Pelehatchie Bay). Population in that spot is getting out of control.

The regular season opener is Aug 26.

https://www.mdwfp.com/wildlife-hunting/alligator-program/

 

[Snake45]

And a gator is nothing to toy around with.

I watch a 14-YO girl kill them (up to 11-12 feet) with a .22 every Thursday night on Swamp People. And I think this is her third season on the show.

 

[JPGLSG1234]

While I'm not sure which is which - the 1 on the right looks like ex-wife #1 & the 1 on the left ex-wife #2...

Damn it's a good thing you got away.....

I had one crawl in my bass boat on a private lake outside of Thomasville, GA. while we were eating lunch. I can tell you for sure a 357mag will go straight through them and exit out the bottom of a good fiberglass boat . That ended a good fishing day.

 

[Kevin]

The last time I drove through MS, I saw a road kill gator. Made me wonder what the car looked like afterwards.

 

[dannyd]

My new neighbors from Pennsylvania found the one around the corner; I told them don't worry they only like Chicken.

I didn't tell them everything taste like Chicken to them.

 

[eveled]

I watch a 14-YO girl kill them (up to 11-12 feet) with a .22 every Thursday night on Swamp People. And I think this is her third season on the show.

If you are talking about Pickle Wheat shes 27 years old.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

 

[Snake45]

If you are talking about Pickle Wheat shes 27 years old.View attachment 19952

Yah, I found that out when I googled her about one minute after I posted. Dunno where I got that she was 14--I think maybe Troy said something about her being 12 when she first showed up on the program. Evidently he was joking and I didn't pick up on it. So that's my bad.

Now it makes sense why she always looks like she's about to bust out of those tight T-shirts.

 

[eveled]

Lol. I was surprised too. She seems so much younger. Fun to watch her in the snake show too.

 

[daveag.]

I watch a 14-YO girl kill them (up to 11-12 feet) with a .22 every Thursday night on Swamp People. And I think this is her third season on the show.

I know .22’s are used. I’d think a larger caliber would be better. A .41 M in a 4 5/8” Blackhawk. .357’s has such a loud report.

 

[Snake45]

I know .22’s are used. I’d think a larger caliber would be better. A .41 M in a 4 5/8” Blackhawk. .357’s has such a loud report.

Evidently .22LRs get the job done. Dunno if it's cost or low noise or what, but I'm certainly not gonna argue with success.

 

[Fox Mike]

All I know, from first hand experience, is gators can run very fast. Working at Broward Marine in Ft Lauderdale and had to go in on a Saturday to finish installing a bureau. A gator was sunning on the railway next to the pier I had to use to get to the yacht. He jumped up and took off onto the pier I was on. I ran, it ran after me. I managed to jump on the deck. It stopped on the pier, grunted, turned around and went back to sunning. Another 15 feet and it would have caught me. When I was done my job I made certain he was nowhere in sight before I left.

 

[Snake45]

Lol. I was surprised too. She seems so much younger. Fun to watch her in the snake show too.

Her clothes are even tighter in the snake show, if that's possible.

I'm still waiting for someone, somewhere, to tell my why they have to capture the pythons alive in Florida for the bounty. If the idea is to eradicate them, I'd think they'd be worth as much dead as alive. Would seem to be a natural game for .22s.

 

[eveled]

Apparently they have to be humanly euthanized. The article links to the humane method. Its very specific.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/...be humanely killed,of pythons is not allowed.
My guess is that it would not be good television.

 

[Bob Wright]

Apparently they have to be humanly euthanized. The article links to the humane method. Its very specific.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/...be humanely killed,of pythons is not allowed.
My guess is that it would not be good television.

The late Jerry Clower ssaid it best: "How do you kill a snake wrong?

 

[eveled]

The late Jerry Clower ssaid it best: "How do you kill a snake wrong?

When you run afoul of the animal cruelty laws and film it for a TV show.

 

[Snake45]

Apparently they have to be humanly euthanized. The article links to the humane method. Its very specific.
https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/...be humanely killed,of pythons is not allowed.
My guess is that it would not be good television.

If they're such a dangerous invasive species, you'd think Florida would want them DEAD by any means necessary and not be worried about whether or not it was "good television." Plus which, if you could just shoot them with a .22 or shotgun and turn in the corpse for the bounty, I'd think a lot more people would be hunting them and they might actually be able to eradicate them. So I'm still baffled.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

I know .22’s are used. I’d think a larger caliber would be better. A .41 M in a 4 5/8” Blackhawk. .357’s has such a loud report.

It's all about bullet placement. Notice once they are shot it is lights out. A big bullet in the wrong place would just piss them off. There is a certain spot they aim at for the brain. Troy explained it once but my CRS kicked in

Fox Mike You got lucky.
Alligators can run up to 35 mph for very brief stints. That's faster than the fastest person in the world, Usain Bolt, who is able to run at 27 mph.

I lived next to a guy in the 50s that slaughtered cattle for people.
All he used was a 22LR to the brain. When shot all four legs would fold and lights out and a real dead cow.

 

[GunnyGene]

Evidently .22LRs get the job done. Dunno if it's cost or low noise or what, but I'm certainly not gonna argue with success.

With a .22 you got to be accurate. The only kill shot is a brain the size of a walnut just behind the eyes. That's the way it should be done to avoid excessive damage to the hide. An undamaged hide is too valuable to waste it with large caliber rounds. In the link I posted up thread, the rules for the May 5th hunt in Pelahatchie mandate bird shot. Same target area. You hook the gator, drag it up to the boat, and shoot it with the muzzle about a foot from the brain target spot. In this case they don't allow rifles, .22 or otherwise, due to the proximity of homes, etc. If I'd drawn a tag, I'd use a 20gauge with #6 shot.

Make special note to the following regarding discharge of firearms:

• No firearm may be discharged within 100 yards of any residence, building, boat ramp, boat house, public or private pier, bridge, road, or occupied campsite.
• Firearms used for dispatching an alligator are restricted to long-barreled, shoulder-fired shotguns with only shot size #6, #7, #7.5, #8, or #9 ammunition. No other ammunition may be in possession. No bangsticks are allowed.

 

[eveled]

If they're such a dangerous invasive species, you'd think Florida would want them DEAD by any means necessary and not be worried about whether or not it was "good television." Plus which, if you could just shoot them with a .22 or shotgun and turn in the corpse for the bounty, I'd think a lot more people would be hunting them and they might actually be able to eradicate them. So I'm still baffled.

The law is very specific. Which I agree makes no sense.

The good television remark has nothing to do with the state of Florida. I was just explaining why the producers possibly don’t show it in the show.

I know I don’t want to watch a snakes brains being scrambled with a metal rod.

 

[daveag.]

It's all about bullet placement. Notice once they are shot it is lights out. A big bullet in the wrong place would just piss them off. There is a certain spot they aim at for the brain. Troy explained it once but my CRS kicked in

Fox Mike You got lucky.
Alligators can run up to 35 mph for very brief stints. That's faster than the fastest person in the world, Usain Bolt, who is able to run at 27 mph.

I lived next to a guy in the 50s that slaughtered cattle for people.
All he used was a 22LR to the brain. When shot all four legs would fold and lights out and a real dead cow.

I know. I’ve helped butcher hogs. Bovine. A .22 is all we used. I just like my brass framed .41 and it shoots great. Just want to shoot a gator about the eyes.

 

[dweis]

Crock’s have long and narrow snouts. Gators have wide and shorter snouts. As for me, I just as soon not meet Either of them up close.

 

[Jimbo357mag]

A woman walking her dog near the water was killed by a gator close to where I live. The attack was filmed by someone. I won't link that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/woman-85-killed-alligator-attack-walking-dog-florida-rcna71546

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

I know. I’ve helped butcher hogs. Bovine. A .22 is all we used. I just like my brass framed .41 and it shoots great. Just want to shoot a gator about the eyes.

Owens Country Sausage (a Texas maker) used to have a hog slaughter house in our little town. Our Cub Scout troop got to watch the entire process. First, hogs were wrangled single-file into a shute, where a worker, straddling the shute, hit them in the head with a 9 lb sledgehammer. If that didn't kill them immediately, another worker finished them off with a .22 round at base of skull. This was a sobering event for 9-year-old Boy Sprouts.

We used to listen to these hogs' final screams from the nearby community golf course.

 

[the_leper_colony]

Never could stand the things!

 

[caryc]

I always liked the "Choot Em", "Choot Em" guy.