This 4-metres, 328.2 kilos male alligator held the record for the heaviest alligator ever to be killed in Mississippi for about one hour.
It took Beth Trammell and her team of six people an hour and a half to bring down the 328.2 kilos beast after it became hooked on their lines.
Trammell told the Clarion-Ledger that when... the alligator finally surfaced beside the boat, she screamed, “Oh, my gosh. It’s the Loch Ness monster.”
After another two hours, and the assistance of a few extra hunters, the alligator was hoisted into their boat and taken back to shore to be weighed and measured, and a new, albeit short-lived, state record was set.
The previous weight record was 316.4 kilos, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.
The state’s alligator hunting season, sponsored by the department, ends on Sept. 9.
Hunters must apply for permits and attend alligator hunting training courses if they are selected through the department’s lottery.
While Trammell and her team were subduing their behemoth, another gator, weighing 329.8 kilos and measuring 4 metres had been killed by a group of hunters a few miles away.
“We chased him for about two hours. Then we got a shot on him,” Dustin Bockman says.
After the first crossbow shot hit the alligator, it took an additional two hours before Bockman and his team could take down the reptile with a shotgun.
They were unable to get the gator into their boat, so they waited until sunrise and called a few fellow hunters to help them load their record-breaking catch.
According to Trammel, both of the creatures set new state records for largest alligator to be killed in Mississippi.
These animals may be huge, but in March, 18-year-old Braxton Bielski broke the record for the heaviest alligator ever caught in Texas, USA.
That alligator measured 4.267 metres and weighed 362.9 kilos.
