Making The Kill When Hunting For Alligators

By Sharon Morris


Human beings are easily among the weakest of animals when relative size is taken into account. The other great apes can boast levels of physical powers not even the most athletic people with the hardest of training regimens and the best performance enhancing drugs can ever hope to reach. Humanity is weak due to a quirk in its evolution. In exchange for muscular development, it would receive enhanced cognitive abilities. These enhanced cognitive abilities allowed human beings to realize that a pointy rock could make for a good weapon. Then it realized that attaching it to a long stick could make for an even better weapon. Using those weapons, they hunted animals. They became so good at it and became so ingrained in human instinct that to this day, people will go hunting for alligators.

Now, there are a lot of factors that cause a person to go hunt. For some, it is for food, as wild animals do not consume anywhere near the same amount of chemicals that those in raised captivity do. To others, it is simply just recreation, a pastime to indulge in. Others may have to do so because a wild animal may present a danger to the local community, if that happens, then it very much has to be put down.

Alligators are apex predators, which means that they are animals that are on top of their respective food chains. An apex predator has no natural predators, not in its natural habitat. Most of the things that can kill an apex predator are generally a larger specimen of the same species, or an outside species.

Most gator hunters will do so on the water, as such they will use boat. They will also use lines. Hooks will also be employed, as will bait. To make the kill, they will generally carry a firearm.

Baiting a gator is the most important step in hunting. Meat is placed on the hooks. The hooks are attached to the line. The line is then set in water. The idea is that a gator will bite down on the meat and become ensnared by the hook.

Gators move fast in the water. They can also stay underwater for extended periods of time. As such, they can be difficult to track, which is why a trap must be set.

Once a gator takes the bait, a hunter has to pull the line in, pulling the gator up out from the water. Once the head is visible above the water, the next step is to take a single, close range shot to the head to kill it. Ideally, it should only take one bullet, as any additional blemishes will degrade its value, it is for this reason that a shotgun, which fires multiple pellets instead of a single slug, is not recommended despite being ideal for hunting birds and terrestrial animals. Once the thing is dead, it should be hauled up on a boat.

A dead alligator can be yield a profit. The meat can be sold and then eaten. It can also be skinned and that skin can be made into leather goods. It can also be turned into a trophy.

People like killing things. Especially a lower form of life. Hunting is just a way to satisfy that desire.




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