Monstrous Alligator Plops Down On Georgia Deer Hunter’s Corn Pile: “Like A Scene From ‘Jurassic Park'”

Does a gator **** in the woods?

I guess so…

Imagine waking up at the crack of dawn to get out to the woods, hoping you bag the biggest buck of your life. After a couple hours, you can’t find anything within range, but then you start to feel the damn deer stand begin to shake, and you see something ginormous walking your direction off in the distance…

Ok, not really… but sure enough, it’s the biggest alligator you’ve ever seen before in your life, and for some reason, it’s in these Georgia woods. That’s exactly what happened to this bowhunter from Macon, Georgia.

He described the wild scene:

“It was just another afternoon in the climbing stand for a bowhunter in Macon County, Georgia.

Then he hears something coming, and with anticipation he tightens his grip on his bow… oh, but it was no deer. Like a scene from Jurassic Park, a huge alligator appears, lumbering through the pines before laying down in a corn pile.

He was hunting in planted pines more than 1,500 yards, almost a mile, from a river and retention pond where a 13-foot alligator is known to reside.”

While most folks would think Florida and Louisiana at the sound of “alligator,” the Peach State actually has a pretty sizeable population. According to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Georgia’s alligator population is considered stable, with an estimated 200,000+ gators in the state. They’re found south of the “fall line,” a natural dividing line running roughly from Columbus through Macon and over to Augusta.

They live in swamps, marshes, rivers, and lakes, especially in the Okefenokee Swamp and coastal plain. You generally won’t find them in North Georgia — they don’t live in the cooler mountain regions, but some have been spotted in the north on rare occasions.

And while most deer hunters would probably just call it a day, our hunter here opted to stick around until… after dark. Which made for a rather adventurous walk back to the truck:

“Before dark, the alligator lumbered away, but not back toward the river, instead it went toward the hunter’s truck. Made for a hair-raising, careful walk out of the woods in the dark.”

No chance I’m messing with that thing…

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Georgia Farmer Shocked To Find 10-Foot Alligator In His Field

“That’s a big ol’ son of a gun. Daggum.”

Of all the things you may expect to find on your farmland, an alligator certainly isn’t top of the list. Down south, alligators seem to be ever present when you’re by water, but if you’re far from a lake or river, the chances you’ll run into one are pretty slim, but as this video proves, never zero.

Taken in Terrell County, Georgia (judging from other posts on the account), two farmers in a large peanut field stumbled upon a giant alligator who seemed very out of place in the upturned soil and under a giant center pivot irrigation system.

I don’t know if gators in the Peach State are more mobile than others or simply like taking vacations away from the water, but the sheer surprise in this guy’s voice proves that this was the first he’d seen it as well.

“That is the craziest… Here we are at this peanut field. Won’t you look at this. Laying in the cool water is about a freaking 10 foot alligator.”

I don’t know exactly what you do in this situation. You can’t exactly run it off and hunting season closed in the state on October 2nd. I’m sure there may be some exception if one is getting in the way of making a living and you can always call in a trapper to remove it, but my goodness that’s quite a pickle that I doubt they ever thought they’d find themselves in.

“To make a crop, farmers fight weeds, stink bugs, deer, wild hogs, drought, floods, hail, hurricanes….the list goes on and on! Now Alligators?”

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