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Originally posted by BTLowry View PostI have a hard time believing a tag would survive that long in stomach acid period let alone be identifiable.
Maybe alligators don't have strong stomach acid?
No doubt they will eat a dog
And I didn't think a 12' alligator would be "at least 50-70 years old" More like 12-15
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Originally posted by johnpaul View PostYou clearly don’t know anything about alligators lol
I just know they allow some tags on the Nueces River where there are not that many gator. And we had one well over 16' long at one point. There are maybe 2-3 10+ footers on the main river. If it took them 40 years to get that big..well we wouldn't have any gators left pretty quick even if they gave out 2 tags per year.
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Originally posted by RiverRat1 View PostI don't lol
I just know they allow some tags on the Nueces River where there are not that many gator. And we had one well over 16' long at one point. There are maybe 2-3 10+ footers on the main river. If it took them 40 years to get that big..well we wouldn't have any gators left pretty quick even if they gave out 2 tags per year.
You should have killed that world and state record.
"The current world record alligator was taken by Mandy Stokes, of Thomaston, in August 2014. It measured 15 feet, 9 inches long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds. Stokes and her crew took the gator in Mill Creek, a tributary of the Alabama River."
A Fort Bend County man has set the record for an alligator caught in Texas, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The 800-pound, 14-foot, 3-inch gator could be 30 to 50 years old according to its size. At 800 pounds, it is the heaviest alligator for which TPWD has a certified weight.
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That's a 1000lb gator on Swamp People all day long.... Heck their 8 footers weigh 500. Dumb show..Last edited by PondPopper; 04-13-2021, 07:37 AM.
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Originally posted by RiverRat1 View PostI don't lol
I just know they allow some tags on the Nueces River where there are not that many gator. And we had one well over 16' long at one point. There are maybe 2-3 10+ footers on the main river. If it took them 40 years to get that big..well we wouldn't have any gators left pretty quick even if they gave out 2 tags per year.
I have seen multiple 12 ft. gators and at least one, maybe two larger gators out there. There is one that used to live in a pond, down towards the south end of the place, back in mid 90s, that I am sure was pushing 16 ft., I used to guess that gator to be 17 ft., but I never tried to measure him. I saw him twice for many hours, both times, floating around in his pond, that I was hunting over. That gator was just massive, as far as the girth, length and size of it's head. I never saw it out of the water. But what I could see was by far the biggest I have ever seen, anywhere. That gator, has to or had to be very old, don't know if it's still alive, I have not gotten to hunt that far sound in the refuge in a long time, since I only rifle hunted the place the last three or four seasons I went down there, the last times I went down there. They have the whole south end of the place blocked off, and closed to hunting, during the rifle season.
I have seen multiple 8 ft. to 12 ft. gators on land, a 12 ft. gator, standing tall and walking across the marsh, is pretty impressive, more so when it is chasing you, for 60+ yards. Don't believe that crap about gators will only run for 15 ft. or 20 ft., if they are a long ways from water, that rule gets thrown out the window.Last edited by RifleBowPistol; 04-13-2021, 08:03 AM.
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