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Alligator Hunting
Georgia’s 16th alligator season is now in the books. We reached out to WRD’s alligator expert Greg Waters to see how the season went, and he reported that the season numbers had yet to be crunched, and he didn’t make a comment on how he thinks the overall season may have fared. However, 2018 hunters…
On Saturday, Sept. 16, Randy Hand, of Bainbridge, his wife, oldest brother, and father went on Lake Seminole to go gator hunting, and they killed an alligator that measured 13-feet, 4-inches long and was weighed at a whopping 680 pounds on certified scales at Elberta Crate and Box Company. Randy and his family have been…
On the evening of Thursday, Sept. 13, Jerrod McDaniel, of Hazlehurst, killed a 13-foot Ocmulgee River alligator in Zone 5 near the town of Jacksonville. Jerrod is one of 100 who received a permit to hunt this zone. Jerrod was hunting with his dad Dennis, who was the actual gator tag holder, and his buddy…
Don Oates and Bruce Rucker, both of Lumpkin, made their first gator season a very difficult one to top. They killed an 11-foot, 5-inch beast from Lake Eufaula on Aug. 24. Their hunt started about 5 p.m. in the Florence Marina area where they spotted a gator 100 yards off the Georgia bank. “He went…
After five years of patient and anxious waiting, Brian Walton, of Hillsboro, finally got drawn for a Georgia gator hunting tag. The wait was certainly worth it when Brian was able to harvest a 600-lb., 11-foot, 3-inch alligator the night of Aug. 20 while hunting in the Oconee River near Toomsboro in Wilkinson County. Brian…
A woman walking her dog was killed this morning when an alligator attacked her and dragged her into a small pond at an upscale Hilton Head residential and vacation community. Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office received a call around 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning, Aug. 20, about a possible alligator attack near a lagoon in Sea Pines…
Freak Creek became more like Nightmare Creek for a 15-year-old when at least one large alligator, possibly multiple gators, forced the central Florida girl to cling to a tree for more than 45 minutes. According to the girl’s mom in a frantic 911 call, a huge gator tried to get the girl and would not…
It’s amazing what gets the most attention on the internet and social media these days. An obviously prank video of an alligator “attack” went viral the past couple of days. The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, may be long gone from the WWE, but his People’s Elbow signature move is still a tool in the belt…
The Facebook video below from Fox 29 shows a south Florida man rescuing a 4-foot Florida gator from the grip of an invasive 10-foot python snake. Mike Kimmel, owner of Martin County Trapping and Removals and Martin County Wildlife Rescue, rescued the gator when he discovered the snake wrapped around it in the Everglades on Saturday, June 16.…
A mother and her two young children were killed after their car hit a large alligator that was crossing Interstate 95. The family was traveling north on I-95 when the accident happened around 12:50 a.m. Monday, May 7. The crash occurred near mile marker 86, which is 86 miles north of the Georgia line near…