not sure where this gator was taken
Joe Goff, 6'5' tall, a game warden, walks past the 28-foot, 1-inch alligator he shot and killed in their back yard.

wow..Roscoe, we could eat for a year off that bad boy....

No thank you, I think I'll have a Big Mac from McDonalds instead, that doesn't look appetizing one little bit, in fact, just the opposite.

I'm very selective about what I eat, there are certian guidelines that must be met or I will refuse to eat it, one of which is, it must be readily available and common at most grocery stores (US) and/or restaurants, No exceptions..lol

lol..no sense of adventure..come to Cajun country gater is on every menu

Wow, its not common around here at all, and you would think that it would be too, but I can't even think of a single place right now. The only time I ever seen anyone eating it was at a football tailgate party and they cooked it themselves. But I also think its illegal to hunt them here. Not sure now, but the last time I read it was indeed illegal.

runawayhorses wrote:Wow, its not common around here at all, and you would think that it would be too, but I can't even think of a single place right now. The only time I ever seen anyone eating it was at a football tailgate party and they cooked it themselves. But I also think its illegal to hunt them here. Not sure now, but the last time I read it was indeed illegal.

i had some at the resterant " live bait" in gulf shores, one thing , on these pics, i got in email form a guy i have worked with at other places too, we decided ofcourse the pics are real , but the location is not correct, one i did not post had an alligator in they said weiss lake. with a whole big deer in its mouth swimming taken from a helicopter, but we talked at work and weiss lake is mostly deep as the photo on that showed lots or real clear shallow water, so i think someone is pulling someones leg on the location these gators were taken, i thought they lifted the ban on killing gators, but it may be different in florida, take care

Yeah a few years ago they put a ban on hunting them, and that's what I was remembering, but they have a season of the year for hunting them now, but I'm not sure of the dates.

Louisiana has a lottery system for the harvesting , even tho the gaters are everywhere they are still considered endangered, so only a certain amount are allowed harvested each year

welll it makes sence they can take some , as the resterants have them unless yall are eating only the ones that die of old age,and natural causes, lol,,teasing, take care,

very funny Rosco...I am not picky I love the meat...my hubby was in the lottery system, you had to bid back to the state a percentage you would turn over to them, he just liked catching them, so we usually bid 95%, it was a culture shock coming from the mid-west and going in to the swamp to catch them, at first it scared the crap out of me especially when we would roll a 15-16 foot one into the boat, been a few times they weren't dead and action picked up . Had one eat my boat paddle..