Geoff L Johnson / Gator Hunt
December 18, 2011
This is one of two gators (both over 10 feet in length) brought in on this Saturday morning during a hunt near Savannah, GA. They will be processed and refrigerated, the skin and meat sold and the head mounted.
This hunt was led by Trapper Jack Douglas, a licensed hunter and nuisance animal trapper for Chatham County. Hunts can happen during the day or night and the necessary tools include hand-held ropes, snatch hooks, harpoons, or arrows with a restraining line attached. The gators were dispatched by handgun immediately upon capture. According to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the hunt is “…a totally hands-on, eye-to-eye hunting adventure unlike any other hunting experience you can pursue in Georgia.”
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Geoff L Johnson lives in Savannah, GA.
Comments
analogmutant
December 18, 2011 at 12:00 pmi love the way his hide looks in B&W… and also glad Michigan winters prevent those beasts from moving in… i used to go night swimming in the gravel pits as a teenager… that kind of thing would be pretty scary with these critters running around
geoffsphotos
December 18, 2011 at 12:00 pmthanks for the comment, AM.
on that day, I saw folks swimming and playing in the same river, same vicinity, that the gators were in. we literally got a gator into our boat, rounded a bend in the river, and there was a family with kids having a blast in the water, right off the back of their boat.
this seemed strange to me… – geoff