Alligator khuk and harness

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I thought I would show my "carry harness" for when I go alligator hunting. You can only hunt at night so the front pockets are for my assorted flash lights and batteries.

You cannot have anyfirearms. Game wardens frequently check and you will get fined and or locked up if you do.

So I carry an 18" AK. It is big enough to do some damage and carries well. I use OD duct tape to keep things together. :) It is easy to draw on my hip.
I never needed, but it sure does the job on tree branches blocking the way.
 
Question about the fourth pic...

Why do you feel the need to carry a coat hanger for alligator hunting? :) ;) :rolleyes: :p
 
If you can't have a gun.

And you don't use the kuk

How are you Gator hunting?
 
45-70 said:
If you can't have a gun.

And you don't use the kuk

How are you Gator hunting?
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There are two ways to "catch" them. One is to snag them with a large treble hook and sinker. And the other way is to snag them with a bow and arrow [barbed fishing arrow]. Once you got 'em, you kill it with a bang stick while it is under the water so the bone and meat does't splatter in your face. ;)


Of course you can rassle them as Raghorn pointed out. :D
 
You know, I was thinking about how good a gator skin covering for that scabbard would look but you seem to be a step ahead of me. :)

Good luck, Sams.
 
I've wanted a bang stick ever since I read about their utility in WITHOUT REMORSE by Tom Clancy. :)
 
I guess that the game wardens don't call the bang stick a firearm? Is this the 12 guage shotgun shell variety?

About 20 years ago I was scuba diving off Eluthera Island in the Bahamas. There were some really gutsy guys hunting big hammerheads and killing them with bang sticks. They asked me to go along, but I declined.

If I was asked again today, I would still decline. But the idea of gator hunting with bang sticks does interest me.
 
My idea of hunting gators with "bang sticks" are the kind that are red, waterproof and have a lit fuse at one end...

:eek:

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Trust me, Nasty, if you threw a dyn-o-mite stick at a gator, he would eat it.

Big ones would come around and ruin our fishing in the Everglades. Once a girlfriend waited until a gator ate her bobber, then handed me the fishing rod with the shrill cry, "Michael! DO something!"

Another time I threw a beer can at a gator and he ATE it. Didn't just chomp it, no.

So I shot one once with a Daisy BB gun ('member, no guns) right on the tip of his nose. It came out of the water like a Polaris missle.

They're NOT endangered, and we should make khuk scabbards outta the hides. They don't taste like chicken, either. Like a wierd combo of seafood & meat. The fish in the Everglades are full of mercury, thanks to Big Sugar and their fertilizer runoff. So too probably are the gators.


Ad Astra
 
cognitivefun said:
I thought this thread was about khukuris made especially for alligators.
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It is, my 18 inch AK is all I use for alligators, and other things deep in the swamp, perhaps even the "skunk ape"? :eek:
 
Green Ice said:
Makes me want to go alligator hunting. I think Louisiana has a gun season.
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They do. Nothing like hunting gators of the bow of an Air Boat... at night... with an AR15...
 
He was born and raised around Jacksonville,
A nice young man, not the kind to kill,
But a jealous moment and a flashing blade,
Sent him running through the Everglades.

( A man can't live in the Everglades )

Where a man can hide and never be found,
And have no fear of the baying hound,
But he better keep moving and don't stand still,
If the 'skeeters don't get him then the gators will. :footinmou :p ;) :D
 
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