Father/Daughter Gator Hunt II

BEARDOG · Post by **BEARDOG** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:30 pm

I took my daughter out Gator hunting again this year this past Friday night. She made me proud by taking a nice fat 8 footer with my Exomag! The gator made some nice runs taking the line and bouy out to the open lake. Jessica did a great job handlining the reptile to the boatside where we hit em with the bangstick to end it. She taped the mouth shut, helped haul it aboard and took the knife and placed the tag in the tail.
When my turn came, she learned a valuable lesson about hunting. Never take anything for granted. Somehow I managed to blow a number of shots at gators in the 9-11 foot range. I ended the night with a big zero. It is the missed opportunities that make you truely appreciate when things go right. As it turned out, this was her night!

LoneWolf · Post by **LoneWolf** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:52 am

Congrats to you both, BEARDOG.

Can't wait to see the photos!...

pdislow · Post by **pdislow** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:13 am

i used to work down in west palm beach about 3 years ago... you should have pplenty of gators down there to hunt!

Partikle · Post by **Partikle** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:58 am

Congrats Beardog,

Any pictures of the 8 footer? Daddy gets a new pair of boots!!!

Partikle

BEARDOG · Post by **BEARDOG** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:05 pm

GaryL is being kind enough to post a couple of pictures for me.

Particle- I get to make boots out of the one I shot

, my daughter is getting a purse.

Crackerfla · Post by **Crackerfla** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:55 pm

Glad to hear about your daughter getting a gator. I used to hunt problem gators up here in NE Fl with a friend of mine. Best night we had we caught 6 out of a management pond in Jax 6 to 8 ft. Another night we were hunting a 10 plus footer and wound up with one that was 11'4" with a bobbed tail, prolly would have been close to 13 if it had all the tail. The other one was a little over 12'.

We never used a crossbow. We used a harpoon with flying gaff style tips, noosed em, taped their mouths shut, and kept them alive to be butchered at our leisure. I'm not sure but I think you have to kill them in the state hunts like that but since we were trapping for the state we did not have to play by the same rules as you. I could go on and on with gator stories. Good luck on your next hunt!

Cracker

GREY OWL · Post by **GREY OWL** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:09 am

Kids their all the same, take'em hunting and they out do you. My son last year got 3 deer, me 1.

Grey Owl

TYE · Post by **TYE** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:14 am

Last year I shot 3 deer with my rifle, and my dad got NONE..... hehehe