Mississippi hunters land a giant 787-pound alligator

[Jilly_in_VA]

Alligator season is always cause for excitement and it was especially so for first-time hunter Ty Powell of Columbia, Mississippi. What he didn't know is he and friends would tangle with almost 800 pounds of apex predator.

"We were on the Yazoo River north of Redwood," Powell said. "We probably saw 15 or 20 on the way up, but we had that spot marked and were headed there."

It was an alligator fellow hunters Kent Britton, Adam Steen and Bubba Steen had located earlier.

"We had known about this alligator a month before," Britton said. "We had him pinned on our phones along with another alligator."

Britton and his crew went after the other alligator on Friday night because they felt it was the larger of the two and were able to get him in their boat.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2021/09/04/mississippi-hunters-land-787-pound-13-foot-alligator-yazoo-river/5731502001/

[riversedge]

1. whow!!.......pic.......

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[MuseRider]

11. WHY?

This makes me sick and sad. Poor old thing. Was this for glory, fun? Disgusting.

[Dial H For Hero]

15. For the money, presumably. Such a large alligator is worth thousands.

[Hekate]

2. That's a lotta handbags. Or as hubby noted, a lotta BBQ

[leftieNanner]

3. This makes me sad

That had to be a very old gator. I hate to see these animals killed.

I sure wouldn't want one in my front yard though. That's another reason why I don't live in that part of the country.

[Thtwudbeme]

8. Very old

for a gator, and spent his life avoiding people.

Wish alligator hunters could be dispatched to places where gators are a problem- instead of going way back in rivers and trying to get trophies. The meat will taste the same whether it comes from a golf course, or back in a swamp.

[dalton99a]

13. +1. At least 50 years old

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. No, they didn't "LAND" an alligagor. THEY FUCKING KILLED AN ALLIGATOR.

An animal that I would argue has more RIGHT to be alive than the fucking asswipes that killed him. FUCK THEM.

[bahboo]

10. I'm with you....

that photo disgusts me...

[hlthe2b]

5. So we celebrate killing this animal? Really?

I don't. The article states this was alligator killing season, not that this giant (and likely record in age) had become an imminent risk or nuisance animal.

[Thtwudbeme]

9. That's what I thought too-

Why not dispatch these fools somewhere they are needed? Apartment complexes with ponds- golf courses---

Why go after the old guy that has lived way down the river and avoided people?

The meat will taste the same.

[jmowreader]

6. All their friends are going to be sick of eating alligator before long

An aside: A couple years ago one of my papers (we print quite a few) ran a front-page story about a 13-year-old who legally killed a moose. He entered the tag lottery (in Idaho you can get a hunting license at age 10), got a tag and filled it.

The editor asked me what I thought of this stupendous achievement. I said it kinda bothered me.

“Are you an animal rights activist?”

“No, a realist. I know you can only kill one moose in Idaho your entire life. If you do all the fun stuff in life while you’re still a kid, the only thing you have to look forward to as an adult is paying bills.”

A guy I know once told me never apply for a moose tag. He got one…and all of a sudden he had so many new friends he couldn’t count them, all wanting some of the meat. By the time he was done, he wound up with two steaks and a three-pound roast out of 1100 pounds of meat.

[XanaDUer2]

7. Fuck that nt

[snort]

12. Assholes

[Solly Mack]

14. Sick