Looks like Rex did :-)
Posted on 08/29/2019 4:58:53 PM PDT by Enterprise
If a gator was chasing me, my kayak would be a not just a plane but a jet! They would think i was in one of those cigar speed boats!
Daddy sold the luger to his First Cousin. That cousin was golden gloves champion of Florida.
Daddy died at age 90 quite a few years ago. I met the cousin at a family reunion. He said that he had also sold the luger.
He then told me a a good story. He said he complained to Daddy about the luger being inaccurate. He said my Father then took it, put up a target at about 25 feet and proceeded to put a mag full into a single hole.
This is probably a case of “it’s not the shots in the gun, but the shooter holding the gun”. Fairly obvious your father knew the weapon. Comfort and muscle memory are good stuff. Oh, Good fried gator is hard to come by. Chicken not so much. Ain’t nothing better than Cajun catfish but again that’s just me.
No gators in our rivers out west. Sharks in the Pacific though.
Haha, the “Hold muh beer” bit - always goes well with a Darwin Award attempt.
Looks like Rex did :-)
here, in the Eastern swamps, the biggest danger is Water Moccasins.
But one can just move and they’ll leave you alone .
Reel it in fast and get,.
"That's a paddlin'!"
If you scratch its tummy they like that.
Show me.
Touch the squeaky toy you die. Rex et al. There’s things in this world that shouldn’t be messed with.
I think the gator was trying to mate with the kayak
Fwiw, TX & LA Cottonmouths do NOT run FROM you but rather TOWARD you.= AGGRESSIVE describes them perfectly.
Worse than his venom, which is bad enough, is the raging infection that you WILL get from any bite & which is usually FAR worse. = Nearly HALF of all Water Moccasin bites are with little or no venom injected..
(’Ole Stump-tail is a CARRION EATER & I nearly died from the infection that I got at age 19, while gigging frogs, after a near venom-less bite on the back of my left hand by a little 2-footer, that was no more than 1.5 inches wide. = I spent SIX days in the county hospital & taking IV anti-biotics, followed by daily return visits for 15 days to the MD to assure that the medics had killed the systemic infection.= I ended up with an “rather odd-looking scar” from the bite/infection, too. = People invariably want to know if it’s a bullet wound. When I say “NO, it’s from a snakebite.”, they really ask questions.)
Btw, one of my classmates from the Texas Master Naturalist class, last Summer, STEPPED ON a 4-5 footer that was as big around as the calf of my leg but he did NOT get bitten.- Russ landed on the snake so close to its head that it could bite nothing but the sole of his heavy boot. One of our other classmates held the snake’s head motionless with a stick, while Russ quickly “exited stage left”.= LUCKY FELLOW is our RUSS!!!.
By the way, our rivers, sloughs, creeks & lakes have Cottonmouths AND numerous gators, too.
Yours, tmn78247
Yeah. once a Water Mocasin gets interested in you- you have to leave!
Nothing like a croc chasing you though...
SPOT ON, Ma’am.
Yours,TMN78247
Not “Ma’am” thogh. LOL!
Mrsmith done a lot of fishing in the swamp with the Moccasins though...
Hahaha! I’ve got nearly the same story - my brother-in-law gave me my father-in-law’s WWII service .45 and said “It’s not very accurate.”
I took it to the range with my son and proceeded to make a pretty small group in the chest of a silhouette. I turned to my son and said, “It’s not the gun.”
I once had a 7-8 foot ‘gator go after a 2-pound Bass I’d hooked in a Hilton Head Island park pond, fishing from the bank. It would have been comical had there been anyone watching me backpedal away from the water’s edge! As I slid the fish out of the water the ‘gator chomped down on it, turned and disappeared. The hook must have come loose just at that time, because the line went slack and there was the hook and soft plastic lure I used.
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