Two Massive Gators Caught in Mississippi!

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Man....those are some huge gators. Two 13 footers were taken in Mississippi by hunters. Both weighed well over 700lbs!! I am fascinated by these prehistoric giants. Glad we don't have em in Oklahoma. I wonder if a 20ft gator will ever be killed in the states?

I used to really enjoy trucking across I-10 because there are spots, especially in Louisiana, where you're on a causeway type bridge over the swamps. I always got a glimpse of a few gators from up there, looking onto the water below. They were little guys though... A couple feet maybe. 3 tops.. Nothing big.

One of those beasts would have had be stopping on the tiny little shoulder to grab my camera, if not something with more firepower. lol.... What a sight to see!

reply to post by Wrabbit2000


I hear ya!! I live in northern Oklahoma and do a lot of river fishing for flathead catfish. If I saw one on a riverbank I might have to retire from fishing. Luckily our winters are a little too cold to have any here.

I live in the South and have caught and killed more then my fair share of Gators. Anything over 11 1/2 foot is a monster these days. Biggest one I have personally caught is 12 foot 3 inches weighed about 650 lbs. I have seen bigger some I guessed to be 14 or 15 foot long. I can tell you one thing the American Alligator has nothing on the Costa Rica Croc. When I saw that animal in person I flipped. Talk about huge!!!

How dumb is this guy?? Crocs grow up to 20 feet long. 15-18 foot is normal all day long.

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Nuts!!! Thanks for posting the videos!!

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I don't think there has ever been an American alligator 20 ft in length recorded. The 19.2 that was allegedly found on a marsh island in Louisiana in the 1800s--I would want to see the skull to see if it were, in fact, an alligator and not a crocodile. Regarding maximum size for recent crocodilians, and I don't remember any alligator being even 15 ft long. These alligators are big--700 lb size--but a 17 ft Nile or Saltwater croc would weigh twice that. A twenty footer would be well over a ton.
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HOLY GUACAMOLE!!! That's a big gator!!!

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There should be a moratorium on the size a gator or croc can get. Anything over 2 ft
has to die.

Made me nervous just to watch the vids.

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Sure they are big and even in my prime I would have hated to wrestle one of them.
But don't their cousins the crocodiles get abit bigger.
13 feet just does not seem "giant" to me.
Now if it were a 13 foot Iguana...

OMG, here's a pic of the 2nd one:

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I knew the salties were big but a ton?! Jeez.....

StoutBroux
OMG, here's a pic of the 2nd one:

Thanks for posting the pic. I can't post pics from my phone for some reason.

Put them back in the bloody river...........!!!!

FFS......!!!!

PDUK

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Then Again............







sleep well......

PDUK

American Aligators make me laugh with their small sizes.

Go find a crocodile and cower in fear.

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Your second picture is a fake BTW

I watched a documentary years back about a croc named Gustav? Anyone seen it?

I live in SW Oklahoma, we used to get excited over seeing beaver. I can't imagine how seeing something like that, laying across the water from you, feels. Geez.

Those must be the 'gators that got yer granny...

They make wonderful purses and boots Breaded and fried, some tasty eating too. They watched the dinosaurs die, but you make them fashionable and put them on the menu at Micky Dee's, extinct in no time!