1000 POUND Alligator caught by hunters after 10 hour stake out breaks Records Largest ever captured

A family in Alabama are celebrating after catching the largest alligator ever recorded in the state over the weekend. The mammoth beast, which measured 15-feet long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds, was captured by five members of the Stokes family near Thomaston. It took the family, consisting of Mandy Stokes, husband John Stokes, brother-in-law Kevin Jenkins and his children Savannah, 16, and Parker, 14, ten hours to capture the monster. The hunt started on Friday night and lasted well into Saturday morning. Mandy Stokes said her crew went through the full range of emotions as they first staked the animal, before battling it, then killing it and finally struggling to take it back to shore. ‘He came up just as calm as he could,’ Mandy Stokes told AL.com. ‘When I pulled the trigger this time, water just exploded on all of us.’ When they finally got the beast back to dry land, he was so big that he crushed the winch system normally used by Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries biologists. Alligators are the only dangerous-game species that can legally be hunted in the state. In the end, a backhoe had to be brought in to lift the animal and officially weigh it. The mammoth gator has now been officially named as the largest ever legally harvested in Alabama and it could even be a new world record. In June, Safari Club International declared a 14-foot, 8-inch, 880-pound alligator killed in Chalk Creek near Lufkin, Texas by Justin Wells of Bossier City, La., in 2007 as the new world record. It isn't clear which metric - length, weight or a combination of both - SCI used to come to its decision. The Stokes' gator measured 70.5 inches around the stomach, 46 inches around the base of the tail and had a 16-inch snout measurement. Following his capture and being weighed, his next stop was scheduled to be Ken Owens' Autaugaville taxidermy shop. Blog : http://patrynworldlatestnews.blogspot.com Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/patryn.worldlatestnews

Comments

1. What disgusting people. They basically spent hours torturing that animal to death. Evil bastards.
2. how was it legal for him to hunt alligator especially this size? alligator isn't a protective reptile?
3. What a shame. Wouldn't it have been a bigger honor to know you had the largest alligator living on your lands?  Now you've got nothing. Typical.
4. All you pussies saying the rednecks are assholes for killing the gator, need to shut the fuck up. You wanna hop in that water with that big ass gator and befriend it? Be my guest. The gator was obviously killed for reasons other than it being the biggest to date. The gator was obviously intruding on their property. Did you see the rednecks' dogs? I would kill that damn gator too, if it meant my dog being safe? Jesus Christ people like y'all annoy tf out of me with this "poor gator" shit.
5. I guess wild hogs don't count as dangerous lol
6. how would they like to be hunted for days and then shot and killed because they wanted to. that's fucking sick they need shot themselves
7. Kill and destroy, That's all we do sadly.
8. the largest Alligator ever caught was over 19 feet long and over 1000 pounds in Louisiana in the the Late 1800's
9. I'm not really opposed to hunting alligators or anything because the US has done a good job keeping the population stable, but wouldn't it be better if people killed the smaller alligators so that the big ones could breed and raise the average size?
10. wow that alligator probably would have lived a nice long life until those dumb hicks came and killed it. how fuckin retarded
11. a man eater that's why it's so big
12. In a state??? There's a bigger one? That's not a gator, that's dinosaur lol.
13. Terrible shot it dead for what purpose . Leave it in the habitat . Worthless family
14. We found the largest aligator ever, so rare in fact that its record, so we killed it. Fuckin retards!
15. There's one about this size in SC, and I'm gonna kill in exactly 34 days, 22 hours and 1 minute. And you cock suckers can't do anything about it but argue in the comments section.
16. god damn scum family giving us rednecks a bad name. we need to just stick to incest and not slaughtering innocent animals
17. Some clueless comments on this thread.   Why did they kill it, simple it was killing life stock.  When gators get that big they move around a lot because they extinguish the food source quickly.   Killing this one gator will save many more gators from becoming its next meal.    And no you can't move it because there is nowhere left to put gators, every pond, lake and river is already inhabited.
18. "Look at that fucking 15 foot 1000 lb gator."
    "Honey, should I get the gun?"
    "Naw get the kids."
19. You stupid city cunts can let them roam around your neighborhoods and see if you want them hunted or not. You buy your meat from the stores and restaurants, so you're better, right?
20. Guys there rednecks... They think they own the place of course there gonna kill, they got nothing else to do chase there poor as shit