There is a reason why this is the acceptable method of hunting a gator, and that is because it IS the most effective way to go about things. Bait it, shut it's mouth, hook it so it can't get away, and deliver a kill shot. You can't hunt a gator like you can a deer for instance. You don't make a clean kill in your first shot on a gator, where is he gonna go? He's gonna split into the swamp and disappear. Would you prefer to have a bunch of gutshot gators slowly dying from poorly places shots, or surviving the pain and going on to live all gimped up? How about the gator getting away, dying anyways, and leaving the hunter with a still open tag?
Take that shiny new plastic wrap off your fucking brains and use them for once......
Sure I could probably wander out into the swamp with a 7mm, blast a hole in a gator, and kill it. Then what? If all anyone wanted to do was kill every single gator they could, yes, that would be the way to do it...
