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I guess it is legal to hunt them in Alabama. Pisses me off though, what a magnificent animal. You would think that they would have had enough sense to realize that this gator was something special, but you have to have the biggest trophy I guess.
I can't even read the article. From title of this thread and the title of the article, I already know it will be heartbreaking. 
I heard on the news a couple of months ago about some fishermen who found a two hundred year old oyster and killed it. Sadly, these people vote.
I heard on the news a couple of months ago about some fishermen who found a two hundred year old oyster and killed it. Sadly, these people vote.
I want to say that I have nothing against the sports of hunting and fishing. I used to be an avid fisherman myself. I wish that the mentality involved in those sports, that is sometimes displayed, of trying to catch the biggest fish or kill the biggest bear or whatever, could somehow be left behind. I wish there was more discretion shown. You don't always need to one up your neighbor by killing a bigger animal. Go out, have your fun, but keep in mind what these truly magnificent creatures mean to the ecosystem they inhabit and what they have gone through to survive.
Unless it was being an immediate threat, I don't understand why to kill it. 
Not going to open the link. I do not understand the mentality of killing this/ or any critter for a trophy.
Yes, this... and basically, don't be a stupid human. It's sad... and unnecessary.
Why? Why are humans so intent on killing?
SMH that is so wrong they should have left it alone.
I've watched the show Swamp People a few times (not that that makes me an expert lol). Alligators are hunted for the same reason other animals are hunted and cows are slaughtered... for the hide and the meat. The bigger the gator is, the more money its worth. I think the people killed it because thats how they make their living. I'm sad the old-timer gator wasn't allowed to live but I also get sad when our neighbors send their cows to slaughter. I don't eat meat so I'm having a bit of a hard time living in cow country 
They probably have a hunting season like we do if Florida. Our hunting season is very short.
I've got nothing against hunting for food and when population thinning is necessary but I do not understand trophy hunting.
I do not understand or like trophy hunters either. I forgot the name of the the show but it ended with the trophy hunter's head mounted on a plaque and hung on the wall. It made me smile
It's a Night Gallery.I do not understand or like trophy hunters either. I forgot the name of the the show but it ended with the trophy hunter's head mounted on a plaque and hung on the wall. It made me smile
Night Gallery story “Clean Kills and Other Trophies” reviewed | Written by David Juhl
That is one big gator! Congratulations to the Stokes family!
There were 2,174 babies aborted in the U.S.A. today and the day isn't done. That is one big gator and I am happy for the Stokes family to have taken it as they did. They should be proud and I'm sure they are. I have no problem with hunters or fisherman taking trophies. I hunt deer, don't fish like I used to do, and I know more than a few who have taken spike-horn bucks and to them, that is a trophy. I am troubled by the mentality that calls one and all to accept things that are far more divisive than the taking of an alligator, troubled that one cannot voice an opinion contrary to the common cause on many issues...and I can't even describe those here without incurring the wrath of those who would label me a "hater" simply for a different view...and I am troubled that so much of what I enjoy is easily labeled wrong. Take the "Shooting Range" thread for example. OoO posts a sarcastic "bang" photo in that thread, is thanked, and the world moves on.
I recall a time in the not too distant past where I mentioned here on the board that I hunt and a much-loved and respected member said to me, "why am I not surprised?" Him and the horse he rode in under.
Anyway, it is curious, what with diversity and all, that things that are not acceptable, that are called out on the carpet and labelled as such. I am a trophy hunter. I'm not liked in this thread. Well if you don't like hunting. Don't. It is an honored tradition and if we believe the evolutionary tale, we were all once hunters and gatherers, and after the Flood we began to eat meat. It is allowed.
There were 2,174 babies aborted in the U.S.A. today and the day isn't done. That is one big gator and I am happy for the Stokes family to have taken it as they did. They should be proud and I'm sure they are. I have no problem with hunters or fisherman taking trophies. I hunt deer, don't fish like I used to do, and I know more than a few who have taken spike-horn bucks and to them, that is a trophy. I am troubled by the mentality that calls one and all to accept things that are far more divisive than the taking of an alligator, troubled that one cannot voice an opinion contrary to the common cause on many issues...and I can't even describe those here without incurring the wrath of those who would label me a "hater" simply for a different view...and I am troubled that so much of what I enjoy is easily labeled wrong. Take the "Shooting Range" thread for example. OoO posts a sarcastic "bang" photo in that thread, is thanked, and the world moves on.
I recall a time in the not too distant past where I mentioned here on the board that I hunt and a much-loved and respected member said to me, "why am I not surprised?" Him and the horse he rode in under.
Anyway, it is curious, what with diversity and all, that things that are not acceptable, that are called out on the carpet and labelled as such. I am a trophy hunter. I'm not liked in this thread. Well if you don't like hunting. Don't. It is an honored tradition and if we believe the evolutionary tale, we were all once hunters and gatherers, and after the Flood we began to eat meat. It is allowed.
Walter Oobleck You take some simple things and make them conspiracies. People use that like button for a variety of reasons. Before you start lumping all of us into one big pile, talk to individual people.
You ARE allowed to voice differing opinions. Depending on the topic, people might be heavy on your side or they might not. It just depends on the topic.
People have to eat. I have no problem with hunting. In fact, if people are going to hunt, I wish they'd use MORE of the animal. There is a lot of waste. I also prefer thinning herds for health reasons and so animals just don't cruelly starve in an area where resources are thin and the herds are too big to be sustained.
The big game stuff, no, I don't like that. But you do. It's your right to enjoy that. It's my right to not like it.
You ARE allowed to voice differing opinions. Depending on the topic, people might be heavy on your side or they might not. It just depends on the topic.
People have to eat. I have no problem with hunting. In fact, if people are going to hunt, I wish they'd use MORE of the animal. There is a lot of waste. I also prefer thinning herds for health reasons and so animals just don't cruelly starve in an area where resources are thin and the herds are too big to be sustained.
The big game stuff, no, I don't like that. But you do. It's your right to enjoy that. It's my right to not like it.
Hey Walt, Why do you have to bring abortion into this debate, huh? I respect your opinion as your opinion, but I do not equate killing a croc the same as killing a baby. Further, the general topic of abortion is divisive at best and upsetting in the least it may be a 'casual' thing to you, but to me it is not. Think man, think.
They have a place around where I live called "Gators Dockside" where they serve alligator meat. Not half bad actually.