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Title: 15 ft alligator
Post by: tubenit on April 06, 2016, 10:15:33 am
Thing reportedly was eating a rancher's cattle.  Never seen one that long before?
Title: Re: 15 alligator
Post by: sluckey on April 06, 2016, 10:21:01 am
Quick! Choot'em Lizabeth!
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Post by: tubenit on April 06, 2016, 10:22:13 am
13ft 1025 lbs  from Santee Cooper, SC

Look at how enormous the head is on this gator!  Wouldn't you love to be surprised by that rushing out of a stock pond at you when you were frog gigging. 

 :help:

5'5" gal got it.
Title: Re: 15 alligator
Post by: shooter on April 06, 2016, 11:02:01 am
He's a big 'en.  Took my wife canoeing on the orange river in FL looking for manatee, had a 14' canoe, took a fork off the river, Pam said, "I think I see one" we paddled over to the *shadow*, was a gator as long as the canoe, he popped his head up, looked at us, as we paddled the hell outta there!
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Post by: Willabe on April 06, 2016, 11:40:33 am
Dinner Time!!!!!!  :icon_biggrin:

Gators real tasty.
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Post by: Platefire on April 06, 2016, 05:14:23 pm
That thing is Huge! Never seen one that large before.

Can I tell my Gator story???? Well I will anyway:>)

Back in the 70's, went fishing at a pond one Saturday afternoon by myself with my spinning rod with a tiny torpedo. The pond had a concrete duck blind next to the bank. I had been wading in the edge of the pond in order to make more effective cast. I took  little break and wondered over to the duck blind which once I looked down in it noticed it filled with water. I could see something down in the water that looked like a big snake or something. The water was kind of murky and couldn't see clear. So I decided to stick the end of my fishing rod down close to what it was to see if it would move so I could get a better look of what it was. When I did, the water splashed everywhere and it startled me so bad I fell on my back on the ground.

It turned out what appeared to be a big snake was the nose of an alligator. I was thankful that the concrete barrier of the the duck blind was between me and the gator. Somehow after that I had no more desire to wade in the water or fish no more that day, and went home. Platefire
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Post by: MoparWade on April 06, 2016, 07:09:10 pm
What's next a F@#$ING Sharknado?! I'm glad I live in the NW so I don't have to worry about these things. Plenty enough to worry about out of the water without worrying about what happens when you step into the river. Never visiting the south.
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Post by: Ritchie200 on April 06, 2016, 09:01:44 pm
Playing golf down at Disney's old Osprey Ridge.  Had an afternoon (read cheap and blazing hot) tee time and my "partner" did not show up.  So I went out solo and just hit a couple of balls on every hole.  One landed by a fairly large pond that may have been part of the canal system.  Went to take my next shot with my back to the water.  Big splash and about a 5 footer came out hissing at me.  Thought about taking a wack at it with my 9 iron and thought better of it.  The small ones can move!  Scared the bejesus out of me.  Told the pro shop when I got back.  They said it would be removed by the next day and gave me a pass for a free round.  They said most are not aggressive and just keep to themselves.  I guess I got too close.  Don't like decedents of dinos or snakes.  I'm getting too old for that kind of excitement....

Jim
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Post by: kagliostro on April 07, 2016, 04:37:52 pm
What a nice swamp chicken barbecue !

Franco
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Post by: sluckey on April 07, 2016, 05:21:36 pm
Hey Franco. You any kin to Glenn?  :icon_biggrin:
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Post by: kagliostro on April 07, 2016, 05:25:30 pm
 :icon_biggrin:
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Post by: PRR on April 07, 2016, 06:40:55 pm
> down at Disney's old Osprey Ridge.  ....They said it would be removed by the next day

It's valuable....

> Gators real tasty.

One of the D-world snack bars sells gator nuggets. "Tasty" must be in the cooking. I thought it was over-cooked bicycle tires. But I guess if they can harvest gators on the golf course there's no need to pay for tires. 
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Post by: shooter on April 07, 2016, 08:35:30 pm
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What a nice swamp chicken barbecue
Franco, are you a *southern* Italian :icon_biggrin:
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Post by: DummyLoad on April 08, 2016, 12:55:44 am
> down at Disney's old Osprey Ridge.  ....They said it would be removed by the next day

It's valuable....

> Gators real tasty.

One of the D-world snack bars sells gator nuggets. "Tasty" must be in the cooking. I thought it was over-cooked bicycle tires. But I guess if they can harvest gators on the golf course there's no need to pay for tires.

tastes like chikkin!!! ha!  :icon_biggrin:

calamari can have a rubbery texture, but it still tastes good. but then again, we don't go fishing for calamari to make tyers.

fried gator is OK and nothing i seek out, but if it's served at a family re-union, i won't turn it down.

--pete
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Post by: kagliostro on April 08, 2016, 08:28:39 am
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Franco, are you a *southern* Italian

Al contrario ..... sono nordico  :icon_biggrin:

Here we haven't those swamp chicken but (expecially when I was young) we eat

fried or stewed frogs

(http://www.lebourgchezdedč.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rane-fritte.jpg)

(http://m2.paperblog.com/i/64/646458/rane-in-umido-L-u2XW6J.jpeg)

boiled pork feet

(http://www.ristorazionetipica.it/sites/default/files/ricette/Carla%20Marcis/P1040196.JPG)

boiled chicken feet

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_X3YleQHrkiM/TOT_3E-CxuI/AAAAAAAAA-0/FPv7Vh4VjU0/s1600/zampe+lesse1a.jpg)

boiled filled chicken neck & head

(http://melagranata.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/collo_ripieno_2.jpg)

fried - roasted - stewed - marinated eel

(http://digilander.libero.it/bonsiluca/anguilla/anguilla1.jpg)

boiled small snails with garlic and parsley

(http://treviso24.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/bogoi.jpg)

stewed big snails

(http://www.lumacamente.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Lumache-in-umido-su-tortino-di-polenta.jpg)

stewed chicken gizzards

(http://cookaround.com/yabbse1/foto/data/17632/DSCF5979.JPG)

and some other things you really would like to taste  :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin: :icon_biggrin:

Franco
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Post by: sluckey on April 08, 2016, 08:37:25 am
Got any crow or armadillo in that stew?
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Post by: kagliostro on April 08, 2016, 09:09:26 am
We have crow but they are too tough, stringy, woody to eat  :l2:

and .... NO unfortunately no armadillo here  :icon_biggrin: 

Note that all things I've show were very common to eat around my town

Ciao Steve

Franco
Title: Re: 15 ft alligator
Post by: sluckey on April 08, 2016, 09:29:24 am
This is a favorite on the Gulf coast. I believe you can now get some at McDonald's...
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Post by: kagliostro on April 08, 2016, 09:36:01 am
My father was a great chiken head eater, I a bit less, but brain comb and wattles I remember as good things

my sister also liked to eat hare and kidskin head, but I hated those things

Franco
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Post by: shooter on April 08, 2016, 12:05:23 pm
I got to spend time in Naples in my Navy days, I would always have the taxi driver take me to places he would take his family to eat.  The food was ALWAYS great, un-identifiable but great :laugh:
Title: Re: 15 ft alligator
Post by: kagliostro on April 08, 2016, 04:47:37 pm
I can understand, I past 3 month on Napoli during my military draft

(I live 25Km far from Venezia and Napoli is all different from here - and is ~700Km far)

Ciao

Franco