Deer Hunting Florida Style


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Sorry if these have already been posted. I think they are amazing photos especially since 3 recent gator attacks in Florida. If one of these big boys grab you its pretty much over.

This was taken by a KTBS helicopter flying over Lake George(For those of you who are not local, this Lake George is in Ocala FL).

That has to be a HUGE Gator to have a whole deer in it's mouth

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Cool, I've never seen them. The deer at my place can't get over the train tracks without getting hit. How can a magestic whitetail pick me out of a tree at 50 yards in full camo, but can't see a train coming down a set of tracks?

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The pictures are actually from Georgia. There were so many rumors that went around as to where the pictures were from and who took them. Check it out here.[ LINK ]

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In August 2004, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) finally cleared up the issue by issuing a press release identifying the photographs as having been taken in south Georgia (near the Georgia/South Carolina border) by a USFWS officer in March 2004:

  • [*]The sight of a 12 to 14 foot-long alligator is something south Georgia folks see occasionally, but few have seen one take an adult deer out to lunch. Actually — for lunch.

[*]The photographs of this deer-eating alligator were taken from the air by Terri Jenkins, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service District Fire Management Officer. She was preparing to ignite a prescribed fire at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, about 40 miles south of Savannah, Georgia, on March 4, 2004.

[*]"One advantage of fire work is you get to see that 12-14 footers are common from Santee National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina to Coastal South Carolina to Georgia’s coast," said Jenkins. "It looks like the alligator population is doing extremely well."

[*]This one was at least 12-13 feet long. Jenkins said that some bull alligators have a 35 inch girth.

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