Both of them were just two feet away from Todd.“If it’s an animal, they can only get that gator on our property,” Lisa Bass said. Abbey made it out alive with just some bruises and scratches. “It wouldn’t have been the same without her for sure,” Lisa Bass said.On Sunday, the Bass family was out by their backyard at the canal. “You do need a permit in order to take alligators,” Tyson Matthews with FWC said. This area equates to a circle with a diameter of about 5½ inches.On my first hunt I asked Hoho, “Is this enough gun for ’gators?”
If you often find yourself near alligator-prone areas such as golf courses or swamps, carrying a personal alarm or bear-deterring alarm is a good precaution for this specific purpose. Lisa Bass said officials told her that because the alligator didn’t attack a human they couldn’t kill it. That’s when Abbey came back up and with it the gator.
“When he got there there was nothing.”Suddenly, Todd heard Abbey yelp in pain. If you want to kill one with a firearm—and do it quickly—you have to shoot it in a specific spot. By that, I mean: Put the bullet in the right spot!Where is that? However, depending on your job description or level of stupidity, it’s a possibility, just not likely.Simply put, spend more time training to kill alligators. Properly shot placement rather effective at solving complex problems, whether they’re caused by a human goblin or a large and toothy reptile.Of course, most of the tactical wizards of the world—folks who’ve never seen someone get shot or even seen someone who’s been shot—like to pontificate about how a .45 ACP is so much more effective than a 9mm and how much of an imbecile you must be if you carry a .380 for self-defense. Never mind the fact that a properly placed bullet from a .380 ACP will stop a 300-pound alligator—instantly.If you can’t regularly—and on demand—put all your shots from whatever distance you’re shooting into a 5-inch circle, you need to spend more time working on the basic fundamentals of marksmanship: sight alignment and trigger control.
Wildlife expert David Hitzing said if an alligator is truly aggressive against … If you lung-shoot an alligator with just about anything less than suitable for African buffalo, you’ll have what a friend of mine likes to call a “situation.” I’m not suggesting you attempt to shoot an attacker in the head—that’s a damned small moving target that’s not easy to hit when you’re scared as hell. Buffalo tend to get, well, pissed off when you shoot them poorly, and they develop an insatiable desire to explain that to you in a very inhospitable manner. Effective self-defense with a handgun encompasses a variety of elements such as reliability, shooter skill, ammunition performance and shot placement.