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Hunters bag 920-pound ‘dinosaur’ alligator: ‘I thought I was going to die’

Hunters bag 920-pound ‘dinosaur’ alligator: ‘I thought I was going to die’

A team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online.

“I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida Gator Hunting, told Orlando station WESH 2 of corralling the huge beast.

Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds.

The lifelong Floridian said he’d never “experienced anything like this” in his 20 years as a charter boat captain.

Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/hunters-bag-920-pound-dinosaur-alligator-i-thought-i-was-going-to-die/

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