Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: Parnell on April 08, 2009, 07:30:47 pm
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I was out scouting some new hunting territory with the good weather today when I walked up on this critter. This one was about 8-9 feet. Question for someone who knows, people say to zig-zag if one moves after you. True? Almost startled the tar out of me :o when I walked up on it around a corner (5-6 feet away). ;D
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Just as long as I can run faster than you, you can run how you like!!!!! Snap snap snap!!!!
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wow snap snap snap is right! I woulda soiled myself.
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Aww, that one won't chase ya' :D If he did, he'd catch you on the first Zig. ;)
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Wouldn't matter for me, I usually zig when I should have zagged ;D My little bit of experience with them is that the 4 footers are the more aggressive: big enough to fend off some smaller critters but not too big to become dinner for others
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my advantage would be I wouldn't be runnin' through crap!But that rascal does look tasty,not that i ever ate one ;)
bone pile
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Here lizzard, lizzard, lizzard... looks like a new pair of boots ;D don't know if i would have had enough arrows.. but would have tried anyway :o Hawk
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I have ate gator( deep fried) and they are good but kinda rubbery. But I wouldn't mess with one that's still alive. RUN RUN RUN!!!!!!!!
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i spent a year in fla.
gators are nothing to mess with,or worry about.
just gotta know where they are and keep an eye on them.hell we used to swim in fresh water holes and we knew and seen gators there
in the water with us.
i have a friend here in mn with a pet gator,about 4 ft long now.i help him clean the cage and the lizards body.he also has a green iguana thats about 7 ft long
nose to end of its tail.hes more dangerous than the gator.i tell you what them tails can tear your hide up when they whip you with it.
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Well, I do believe that is an old wives tale. Like the one about if you are chased by a bear run down hill. In either case, both can out run you, down hill, up hill or zig zag. When a gator rises up on his legs, he can run down a dog. Case in point, an eight footer, caught and swallowed a poodle, that was not on a leash. It raised up and ran it down. Some friends of mine back in hight school days, lived on a Dairy, and had a deep drainage canal, that went into Lake Osbourne, and it usually had a few gators in it. Well they decided to get some gator tail, so they spotted two in the little canal, and started popping them with their .22's. after a while they were belly up. So they got into the water, and dragged them up, and under the fence, and into the pasture. Well they sent the younger one back to the house to get the camera. Well he came back, and they propped the bigger gator's mouth open with a stick, and were lying beside it, and having their pictures, taken with it, and sitting on it's back, etc. but........the one with it's mouth open with the stick, suddenly opened it's eyes! And then proceeded to chase my Friends around the field, all the while they were trying to shoot it with their 22 rifles, and seeing that wasn't working, nor the zig zag routine, they told the younger one to go back to the house and get the 8 mm! So after a few minutes of exciting exercise, the younger one gets back with the big rifle, and they finally are able to end the dodge the gator game. They were doing all kinds of evasive maneuvers, it was pretty much keeping up with them, it was just that there were more of them than the gator, that they were able to keep it busy, and confused. But keep you a big stick with you to divert it. Get out of there. I had a Friend of mine whose Father worked as a Photographer for Pratt and Whitney, and he told me of a guy from NY that was sent down to take some pictures, and he asked if it was true that there were some big gators out there, and he told him yes there are some big ones, and a lot small to medium ones. Well one day they are driving a big step van full of equipment to one of the engine testing sites, and there crossing the road in front of them, was about a ten or elven footer. Well the guy from NY goes nuts, and wants a picture of it. Well he gets out and starts taking pictures of it, and starts walking up closer to it. My Friends Fathers tells him not to get any closer, and the guy keeps going closer. Well the gator decides this guy would be tasty, so turns and comes after him!
The NY'er drops his camera and is hauling butt back to the step van, and leaps up onto the pedestal seat, and the Gator comes right behind him, from his side, out the other side! My Friends Father pulls up a bit, and asks the NY'er if he wants to get out and get his camera that was lying in the grass next to the road, and he replied he would get it on the way back! ;D Most of them won't bother you, but when they get BIG, they can be a problem. Yep we used to swim in the canals, and see them pop up now and then, but they were mostly 7 or 8 footers. If we saw a big one in the canal, we would go further down, and keep and eye out. We were frog hunting in a drainage canal that drained into a big canal, and we spotted some BIG red eyes, and got out of the water, and walked about fifty yards past, and got back in and went back to frog hunting. I wouldn't do that now. We have had a kid taken and killed by a big gator here in Port St. Lucie, and one in Jupiter. You just have to be aware of your surroundings, and what is in it.
Wayne
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Rite ! Anybody wanna go swimmin' ? :o ;D
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No thanks, trying to quit! ;D
Tracy
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NO WAY.. but i would like to be there with a canoe and a quiver full of arows... or a spear.. :o Hawk
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You guy's can get a taste at the Classic. I know somebody that might be bringing some. ::)
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How do you run? answer---Fast!
But think how many bows you could back with that hide???
Been thinking of using the belly skin on a bow myself. That white underbelly would look wicked on the back of a bow.
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You took a picture of him? Are you insane? Is the Florida sun getting to your head? Holy cow, batman. I would have chucked the camera at him and run like the wind!
Seriously though, it would have scared the tar and more out of me, but what a cool picture (I can just see it as the background image for a convention exhibit (http://www.pinnacledisplays.com)... wow, that would stop traffic!). And imagine the weapons you could make it you got some of his teeth. I'm assuming you're going back, right?. :D
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always like a cup of coffee when you see one up close... see if anyone
can find the picture of the 19 footer found at OIA (olando international
airport) around 1999 or 2000,
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jb;
I have it, along with the rattle snakes at the same site, but I couldn't get it to paste on here, so I sent it to Eddie, and hopefully he can do it.
Wayne
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Here's Turkey season in Florida. I drove through the MNGT Area on the way home from Pappy's after Easter weekend. These were in every ditch. This one is about 3' away.
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That looks like a slightly ill tempered one. Maybe it's just the picture though...
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Yea, he wasn't happy. I was standing on the pipe he wanted to crawl in.
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Hey,
All you need to do is is get you an elephant they seem to beat up Gators real nice.........Roll Tide!!....lol...sorry could'nt help it.
Matt
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Yea, I guess that Tide will roll good every few years. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Those are good eating ;) ::)
Russ
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An alligator? :o No way.
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Soooooo, did you leave it alone, and let go back into the cooler,......uh, I mean culvert? ::)
Hmmmm, I wonder if one of Claude's triangular blades, would go through a gator buckle? 8)
Wayne
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I could out run him!,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,cause I'd be running on level ground and he'd be wading in 3 feet of my POOO!!!!!!! Geeeze!! I'll take New York taxes and the long winters as long as I'm not gator food!! GEEEZE!! I'd be screaming like a girl!!!!! JEFF W
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Over the years I've been learning that snowbirds are far more dangerous than alligators. Specially if they've just flocked off the golfcourse. EVERYONE LOOKOUT!
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Jeff, I stepped on one in the dark turkey hunting the year before last. I liked to have crapped, then.
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Jeff, I stepped on one in the dark turkey hunting the year before last. I liked to have crapped, then.
We will forgive you for stepping on one, but why were you hunting turkeys on the golf course? Ill bet snowbirds are more fun to chase in the jeep than pigs are. >:D
Oh wait, you meant you stepped on a gator........ dang it.
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;D ;D ;D Yep, it was a 5' gator. I actually stepped and fell on him. I was slipping through the swamp with a red head light on. He looked like a log and I didn't expect to see one way up along the tree line.
I gave up on tourist, there's too many of them. ;)
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Besides when you step on a tourist, they emit a high pitched whine, and the words, sue, and lawyer come out !
Not to mention that Duck call, and the catfish stinkbait smell !
Wayne
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I've heard that the good meat is in the tails? Don't know though.
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I've heard that the good meat is in the tails? Don't know though.
You talkin' about the gators or the tourists? ;D ;)
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Especially during Spring Break. ;)
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ROTFLMBFAO.....good one Eddie..... >:D
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Ha! ;D
That is a crazy time of year, you never know what kind of wild creatures stumble around everycorner, fresh off the beach! That's when my wife becomes the most dangerous creature! LOOK OUT!
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When you are running from them you just have to avoid the first bite and not go back to taunt them because after the first one they usually give up.