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Originally Posted by Dillonbuck
There might be a reason gators were darn near extinct.
Our forefathers took control. Of something was a threat, they
eliminated it. Not sure that's good, or bad.

Kinda like our bears.

When I was young they didn't really exist right here.

By the 80s, some were being seen. That was cool.
In the 90s, guys who really wanted to could kill one over a year or two.
That was cool.

Now? They destroy corn fields, raid cabins, tear up property.
And it's not rare.

Might be just a few too many!


Dillon, I can think of very, very few critters that are easier to catch and kill than are alligators in the wild.

They have proliferated to the point where prices are well depressed from days not too long ago past.


Bears!!
Louisiana has their share of those too with the possibility of a limited , draw, heavily supervised areas hunt for them. Every year several or so are shot by folks thinking that they’re big feral hogs.

Our family place has several that move through regularly so much so that it’s hard to raise a garden of sweet corn. They play hell with deer corn feeders too and they really like pecan orchards.

The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.

What we've learned from history is that we haven't learned from it.