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Post by x101airborne on Sept 20, 2021 13:09:45 GMT -5
Wow! Definitely need a holster with excellent retention. I could easily see working on pulling that beast out of the water & watching your handgun go splash. We are fishing in less than 2 feet of water. If it falls out it should ("should") be fairly easy to find. My SP101 is currently in a thumb break. Should be a simple matter to add a thong to my El Paso.
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Post by smokeeater2 on Sept 20, 2021 14:30:25 GMT -5
Wow! Definitely need a holster with excellent retention. I could easily see working on pulling that beast out of the water & watching your handgun go splash. That sounds like a good application for a lanyard ring & lanyard. I'd hate to see a revolver disappear in the water.
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Post by dougader on Sept 20, 2021 14:49:04 GMT -5
Great gators!!
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Post by magnumwheelman on Sept 20, 2021 15:01:24 GMT -5
so... now you have some gator meat... is the big one tougher, or stronger tasting??? assume like bigger game fish, the contaminants from the environment build up on the older gators... is an 11+ footer still good eating???
I've had deep fried gator at the local fairs ( sold as a novelty item ) what do you do with all that meat??? does it taste good au natural, or is it all highly seasoned???
do you sell the hides, or process those yourself??? I have one gator belly holster
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Post by x101airborne on Sept 20, 2021 16:02:53 GMT -5
so... now you have some gator meat... is the big one tougher, or stronger tasting??? assume like bigger game fish, the contaminants from the environment build up on the older gators... is an 11+ footer still good eating??? I've had deep fried gator at the local fairs ( sold as a novelty item ) what do you do with all that meat??? does it taste good au natural, or is it all highly seasoned??? do you sell the hides, or process those yourself??? I have one gator belly holster I saw a person who had the cloacal vent of a gator added to his holster with red leather or possibly felt in the middle and I laughed so hard it hurt!! I was the only one who got the joke unfortunately. There is a man in Houston who will pay (last I checked) 20 dollars a foot for the whole gator providing the head is not smashed by a bullet. Why the heck would I drive 2.5 hours one way in a one ton diesel pickup to sell a fresh gator for that? It doesn't even cover my fuel. I have not found another gator buyer yet. So I just process out what I want and throw the rest on a burn pile. I take the tail which is sectioned out into 4 pieces, the legs and surprisingly the "jowl" meat which is the best meat on the entire gator. I did keep the horn back off the 11 footer for a dry mount but the head is going to a taxidermist for proper mounting. His head would not fit in a 48 quart ice chest; we had to use a 64 quart to hold it even on its side. And at that we had to turn it on its side caddy corner in the ice chest. It was well over two foot long. A gator tail has 4 main parts to it. You get a left and right half like a double sided pork loin with a wonderful white meat tenderloin in the middle. I give away the dark meat of the tail and the legs but keep the jowls and the tail tenderloin for myself. I am cautious though... one bit of that fat makes it into your grease and you cant stand to be in the kitchen where it was cooked or eat it. Think of licking a 4 day old catfish that has been in the sun. It is the most horrible thing you could put in your mouth and I got Dysentery in the desert because the locals didn't bury their excrement, so I know what nasty is. I would rather get Dysentery than eat gator fat. No wonder the local Natives rubbed it on their skin to keep away insects.
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Post by contender on Sept 20, 2021 16:09:53 GMT -5
Great pics & follow-up story!
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Post by junebug on Sept 20, 2021 20:32:20 GMT -5
Like your sons advise. Daddy you might as well shoot him again! You trained him well!!!!!
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Post by x101airborne on Sept 20, 2021 20:36:55 GMT -5
Like your sons advise. Daddy you might as well shoot him again! You trained him well!!!!! And he was RIGHT!
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Post by bula on Sept 21, 2021 7:26:35 GMT -5
Very neat pics. Thank You for sharing. There is some JD green in my garage too, but smaller.
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Post by x101airborne on Sept 21, 2021 8:04:40 GMT -5
Our john boat is painted JD green! Dad loved it! We call it "No Go" cause when it had the 1972 Johnson on it, it would run great in the yard on the water hose. Get it to the water and it "No Go". Now it has a 60 horse Yamaha on it and it is my favorite boat out of all 4 because I can launch it anywhere there is water. That and if I wreck it, I can afford to replace it. The other boats, maybe not so much.
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