Man, I'm Glad I Hunt in Minnesota

[Steve-o]

www.fieldandstream.com:  Video: Gigantic Alligator Prowls Through Deer Woods

Imagine you’re a bowhunter 20 feet up in your stand hunting whitetail deer over a pile of corn when an absolutely enormous alligator wanders into view. Well, that’s exactly what happened to Georgia hunter Mike Dupree in Macon County this November. He was hunting in a pine forest nearly a mile from the nearest water sources.

The thing makes an entrance like Godzilla, one swaggering step at a time, wagging its enormous head from side to side. The scene is wrong on so many levels that I don’t know where to start.

The big gator’s behavior gives you no clue as to why it’s there or what it’s after. And I don’t know enough about gators to even hazard a guess about its size. But the way it moves is singular—it’s undoubtedly the Big-Thing-That-Knows-It’s-The-Boss.

Perhaps the scariest part of the whole ordeal? Once it got dark, the alligator got up and walked off in the direction of Dupree’s truck.

[Jerkbiat]

Holy crap!

[LPS]

I would not like to be walking out after dark and stumble on to him.

[roony]

Tastes like chicken.

[mike89]

I want some gater sausage!!!   

[deadeye]

Wow, I hope he isn't bow hunting.

[Steve-o]

Wow, I hope he isn't bow hunting.

... and I'll bet you have some second thoughts next time you walk along that Animal Autobahn boardwalk in the dark.   

[snow1]

"CHOOT" Lizbet "CHOOT".... for you "swamp people"

[Steve-o]

It could happen...

(from last year)

Minnesota hunter shoots alligator during Deer Opener weekend