Whatever the reasons for alligator season existing, Americans in the southern states take it pretty seriously. It’s a family affair over there and young alligator hunters and women often participate in the hunts, in which I guess a family get on a boat and drift down the river looking for alligators to shoot and kill. That sounds kind of gross to me but it’s a way of life over there and humans have always hunted animals and probably always will so I can’t get too high up on a pedestal about it, especially as I’m not even a vegan..
The big news this alligator season is that even though we’re only a couple of days into it two record alligators for the state of Mississippi have already been caught. They’re really going for it this year it seems. The first was caught on September 1st in some place called Issaquena County by a six person crew led by Beth Tramell, who was also a first time hunter. The alligator was 13 foot and 5 inches long and weighed 723.5 pounds and broke the state record for the largest alligator ever caught there. It beat the record by about 25 pounds which is quite a lot in the alligator game, so it was a pretty big one.
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Wow. Kinda looks like a dinosaur or something right? Incredibly the party of six fought with the alligator for one and a half hours with two lines in it before it even surfaced to the water, at which point Beth exclaimed that it looked like the Loch Ness monster. It doesn’t really at all but I get what she’s saying. It took them another two hours and the help of another two people to finally get it onto the boat, where I imagine they shot it in the head.
Amzingly though, less than an hour later a dude called Dustin Bockman was chasing an alligator with a couple of buddies up by Port Gibson, which isn’t that far away from Issaquena County. They followed the son of a bitch for two hours before they finally managed to land a shot on him with their crossbow. Alligator hunting sure is brutal huh?
There was then two hours of wrestling with it before they managed to ‘dispatch’ it (as the American newspapers like to say) and then they faced an even more gruelling test of actually getting it onto their boat. As there were only three of them and it weighed slightly more than Tramell’s catch it was pretty much impossible for them to get it onto the boat. They still spent four hours trying to do this though.
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