This bad boy Bull Gator measured up at 12' 2" and somewhere around 500 lbs. We had been trapping wild hogs that meander on our property making a menace of themselves by rooting up the ground that leaves the terrain something to be desired once they dig it up looking for whatever they can find...
And about two weeks ago I caught 2 boar hogs that weighed an estimated 125 to 140 lbs each. I was on the way to a meeting and I told my foreman to get the hog trailer and load up the wild hogs and haul them off to an area that is more secluded with no farms in the area where they can't be a nuisance...When I got back from the meeting later that day I asked him how the hog excursion went and he said you are not going to believe what happened...
When he got to the hog trap the two wild hogs had knocked the trap around where the corner of oneside was overhanging a canal and one of the hogs escaped down to the shallow canal below. He meanwhile was pulling the hog trap away from the canal so the other hog would not get away. He said that he heard splashing in the area where the hog escaped so he ran back over to the canal and looked down to see this Bull Gator holding onto this 140 lb hog by the neck and the hog trying to escape. He then said that when the Gator sighted my foreman he rolled two times and disapeared with the hog into the culvert pipe that the canal runs into.
You have to understand we have caught a 100 or so hogs in the same place over the years and we usually wash our hands down in the ditch where this Gator caught this hog at...So I contacted a certified licensed gator trapper who traps on our property and told him the situation and two weeks later here is the big Lizard who likes wild pork...We have lots of gators on our property but we don't see many this size too often....I told my foreman that it's too bad he could not have video taped the event because he could have retired for a year or so if he could have caught that on tape.
Just another slow day at the farm....
That's me on the right hand side and with boots on & hat I am about 6' 2", compare that to the length of the gators head...
Sunburst
what about your domestic animals, pets, etc. is it kind of a revolving door policy on them? and i thought we had problems with coyotes and occasional mountain lions.
I will have to send it off to get it fixed...
thats a mean lookin tusker you've got there!
And talk about a rude surprise when you opened the hood. Where did that happen at buzzard????