Photos: Hunter Kills 80-Year Old Massive 13ft Alligator Responsible For The Disappearance of Cows

 

Doug Borries, a Mississippi hunter has shot and killed a massive alligator after the animal was suspected to be responsible for missing cows.

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The 13ft beast was seen as being responsible for the missing livestock before it was stalked as it roamed in a private lake. Dough Borries seeing the giant mammal emerge shot at it from 457 metres away but missed but when the alligator moved closer, he shot at it from 297 meters and this time he did not  miss target, the animal was struck just above the eyes before it died.

Dough Borries wrote on his Facebook page:

"I was lucky enough to put a perfect shot on him at such a long range. It pays to have a good gun.” 

Seeing that he could not carry the alligator himself, he enlisted the  help of other men who helped him haul the animal believed to be 80 years old from the bottom of  the  lake. The giant alligator weighed 410 kilograms. 

He told McClatchy News: “I had no idea the magnitude of how big his body was until we pulled him completely out of the lake.

“It had been suspected of eating some of the local livestock around the lake and was considered a threat.”

Doug was deer hunting with a friend when he first heard about the alligator killing livestock.

He said: “This guy said he’d seen the gator since he was a child.

"It was time for the gator to go because some of the calves were disappearing.

"He asked me if I wanted to come and hunt the gator. I said, ‘Absolutely.’ To me it was a once in a lifetime opportunity.”

To make sure he got the job done, Borries used a specialised approach.

He told WXXV: “What most hunters do, as far as hunting gators, four or five guys get in a boat.

"They’ll go out at night time, and then when they pull him up, they hit him in the head with a bang stick.

"It’s got a loaded shotgun shell at the end of a stick, and I didn’t want to hunt him that way.

"I wanted to hunt him like I would if it was just me and a deer.”

Borries reportedly has 36 state records for hunting and fishing while he has nine world records.

He intends on mounting the animal in his home.

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Credit: Sun.Co.Uk