Gators?

Bates · Postby **Bates** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:18 pm

Has anyone had any run in's with any gators on the mississippi or the ox-bow lakes? If so, what was the outcome?

BeastMaster · Postby **BeastMaster** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 9:17 am

alligators can NOT feed in water that is below 70 degrees...... their metabolism cannot digest food at that temp...if you were to force feed an alligator, the food would rott in his stomach and kill him.. they will still move from place to place but there should be no worries of your dog getting et' once the temp drops on down... momma is not in protect mode of her youngins and she won't be hungry....

this will help ya
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herpeto ... p_amis.htm

Postby **judge jb** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:38 pm

only during the early teal season on the Tn-tom waterway in north Ms.

gator-0

judge jb-0

it was a stand-off.........glad she had a retreat plan.......{so did i }

judge jb

Don Miller · Postby **Don Miller** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:00 pm

Two guys at Matthews Brake lost their dogs to a big ol gator Sunday morning. :shock:

The gator floated into the decoys on a chunk of ice and got the dog and the greenhead he was retrieving. Floated to next hole and ate labradoodle that belonged to a South Carolina hunter. The labradoodle was retieving a coot. The gator spit the labradoodle out. :shock:

stumpjumper · Postby **stumpjumper** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 10:36 pm

good one don :lol:

Double R 2 · Postby **Double R 2** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:31 am

All BS aside....yesterday Chuckles12, Dukbum and myself were hunting some open water and shot a 2 ft cotton mouth that floated up next to the boat right after his dog climbed back in the boat from making a retrieve (Chuckles will post pictures soon). We saw 5 snakes total yesterday and I brought home 4.5 ft and 1ft water snakes to show the boys...under the heat lamp they are very much alive. Saw another snake through a sheet of ice, when I slide the ice over to pick it up that sucker went back under! Day before yesterday, the entire property was 1/2 inch ice (and be danmed if we didn't shoot a bluewing that hit the ice), yesterday it was about 50% covered in sheet ice. Snakes everywhere. Go figure.

tunica · Postby **tunica** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:58 am

Double R 2 wrote:All BS aside....yesterday Chuckles12, Dukbum and myself were hunting some open water and shot a 2 ft cotton mouth that floated up next to the boat right after his dog climbed back in the boat from making a retrieve (Chuckles will post pictures soon). We saw 5 snakes total yesterday and I brought home 4.5 ft and 1ft water snakes to show the boys...under the heat lamp they are very much alive. Saw another snake through a sheet of ice, when I slide the ice over to pick it up that sucker went back under! Day before yesterday, the entire property was 1/2 inch ice (and be danmed if we didn't shoot a bluewing that hit the ice), yesterday it was about 50% covered in sheet ice. Snakes everywhere. Go figure.

OMG the dreaded snow snake species..... :shock:

I remember those from MY years in Germany ya had to be careful at night those things would attack ya....if you was a little drunk and in the wrong AO

dukbum · Postby **dukbum** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 9:20 am

no cheet the snakes were out! for got my camera today to post pic but will bring tomorrow or maybe chuckle12 will post pic for us! damn snakes

should have seen ole doubleR2 pick that bad boy up and bite his head like duck commander! :lol:

vicksburg · Postby **vicksburg** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 12:52 pm

we also killed a cottonmouth yesterday morning. Was laying next to us in a tree top.

Chuckle12 · Postby **Chuckle12** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 1:56 pm

I'll post the pics as soon as I get home.

Chuckle12 · Postby **Chuckle12** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:25 pm

Chuckle12 · Postby **Chuckle12** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:26 pm

Chuckle12 · Postby **Chuckle12** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:28 pm

Did we forget to mantion we killed a few ducks???

Postby **teul2** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 4:53 pm

Chuckle12 wrote:

That looks like the now infamous rattleheaded copper moccison.

Robcat · Postby **Robcat** » Tue Dec 28, 2004 5:01 pm

Dayum! That is unbelievable.

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