03-27-2012, 12:45 AM
2 month old photos. Land owner/friend was hosting a wedding. Cracker style. 300 baked armidillos, gator tail, swamp cabbage and wild pig. He mentioned that he was running short of time to get the Alligator-and he had the tags . I casuallly said I would be glad to help him harvest a few from his land if he wanted. He said "come on over" and told me which ponds to look in. Since he had the permits, I cut otta work after 3. Was using a 6.5 Grendel 115gr AA "cheap" loading berger hollow points. CZ 527, Burris 4x12 scope,18" barrel-shoots 3/4". I parked and walked a couple hunderd yards around the pond and saw a few turtles. Looked down the ditch feeding the pond with my Nikon Superior "E" 10x40 glasses and saw this lizard at maybe 300 yards. He was on the bank. So I snunk up to about 150 yards when he went into the water; he was watching me and I could get no closer the 80 yards before he submerged- but he kept facing me. So I put my back to a tree and wraped the sling around my left arm. I used the 527s set trigger (If you never used a single set trigger you owe it to yourself to try one). Hit him between the eyes and he rolled right overwith his rigth fron and rear legs in the air. Then he sank. In the old day I would have gone in and pulled him out....but insead I got a rod (60 lb test of braided line) and a trebble hook and slowly pulled him out. Needed some help to get him back to the cooler. I did not clean him. I did not cook him. I did eat him. Even my wife ( and she is a yankee) liked the wedding feast!