Sorry to all that this is this late. I have been trying to figure out how to post a picture. Hope I got it right for this one.
My brother in law and myself went down to Florida to do some hog hunting and hopefully be able to watch our friend/guide do some GATOR hunting.
We got into the hogs the first night we were down there and had such a blast running the dogs through the brush and then giving chase after the dogs and staring at a HOG from 5 feet. My brother in law shot his hog from 5 feet. And this was after two mis-fires on the rifle that he was using, needless to say he did not use that rifle to shoot that hog, the guy with the dogs handed him a .44 mag pistol and this did the trick.
After driving around for what seemed to be hours, we all finally stopped and just did the usual B/S session. There were about 10 of us out there hunting, when all of a sudden a vehicle approaches at a high rate of speed and a bunch of the guys are trying to figure who in the heck is out where we are at due to we were on private property. Just as the truck gets to the Jeep that we are riding in the Blue and Red lights come on and the siren starts to blast. The FWC gentleman gets out of his rig and comes straight to my brother in law and just goes off on him. Next, it was my turn. I'm thinking, great, down here in Florida and I'm going to jail. Well the officer could not holed it in any longer and just busted up laughing. We had been had. The brother in law and I had a great laugh with all the locals.
On Sunday, we went out looking for a hog and all we found was a gator, well, not really. We found the hog and than found the gator in the same hole that the dogs had the hog bayed up in.
It got real interesting in this mud hole when were trying to get the dogs out of the mud hole. As the first dog was swimming across the hole he all of a sudden went under water and popped right back up. The next dog did the same exact thing and know we are getting nervous, we still had one more dog to get to shore. Well, dog number 3 ended up going under also and stayed under for about 7-10 seconds and then popped up the surface. Poor dog could hardly make it to shore, and we couldn't step out there to help because we would sink so bad in the mud.
Took the dogs to the truck and came back to the mudhole and the picture shows the rest of the story. 8 feet 4 inches from nose to tail.
This is a small one according to the local. It was big enoug for me.
RidgeRunner
Gator from Florida
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