Alligator for deer season!

[dpete]

Things are getting weird!

 

Mon, November 9, 2020, 3:56 PM CST

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man who was tracking a large buck on the opening weekend of deer hunting season wound up finding another prize for his collection when he came across a 3-foot alligator.

Cory Klocek was hunting Saturday on farmland in East Bethel, about 40 miles (64.37 kilometers) north of Minneapolis, when he took down with a shotgun what he described on Facebook as a “beautiful 10-point buck,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported. Right about that time he came around a pond and spotted the alligator.

“No clue how it got there, or why,” Klocek wrote. “I’m guessing someone had it as a pet and released it when it got too big.”

Klocek, 35, contacted a local conservation officer with the state Department of Natural Resources and got the go-ahead to shoot the alligator as well. He retrieved a .22-caliber handgun and headed back to the pond.

 

“Only in 2020 can you go out... for deer gun season opener in Minnesota and shoot an alligator," Klocek said Monday in an interview. "I’m still at a loss of words.”

Department of Natural Resources spokesman Joe Albert confirmed Klocek got the green light from his agency to take out the reptile because it has “no special protection.”

Klocek said he intends to pair the buck and the gator together for a “fun taxidermy piece.”

[unforgiven]

He can do a jackaloop type

[dpete]

5 hours ago, unforgiven said:

He can do a jackaloop type

A Deerigator?

 

[98Z5V]

How in the hell did a gator get in the waters in Minnesota?...  

[unforgiven]

54 minutes ago, dpete said:

A Deerigator?

 

  love it

[dpete]

2 hours ago, 98Z5V said:

How in the hell did a gator get in the waters in Minnesota?...  

“No clue how it got there, or why,” Klocek wrote. “I’m guessing someone had it as a pet and released it when it got too big.”

[98Z5V]

1 minute ago, dpete said:

“No clue how it got there, or why,” Klocek wrote. “I’m guessing someone had it as a pet and released it when it got too big.”

Zap it, then.  "Pet owners" like this need put on their OWN leash.  Irresponsible fuktards. 

[Cunuckgaucho]

I wonder if Minnesota will start issuing alligator hunting tags in 2021? 

[dpete]

32 minutes ago, Cunuckgaucho said:

I wonder if Minnesota will start issuing alligator hunting tags in 2021? 

Somehow I think the population of gators in Minnesota will never reach a huntable level.  The wonderful winters would surely take a toll on any reptile that doesn't hibernate.  But yeah,  this guy sure has a story to tell once he gets the deer and gator mounted.

[Cunuckgaucho]

6 hours ago, dpete said:

Somehow I think the population of gators in Minnesota will never reach a huntable level.  The wonderful winters would surely take a toll on any reptile that doesn't hibernate.  But yeah,  this guy sure has a story to tell once he gets the deer and gator mounted.

All the more reason to sell hunting tags, think of the money raised and number of people that would buy one just because.