https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/fossil-hunter-fights-alligator-screwdriver/

Oh hell no.

I don't trust em ...not now... not ever....I don't care if it's a baby or a junior Godzilla.... I had about a 5 footer climb in the back of my bass boat years ago ... he made it a bout half way in from the stearn....it was trying to get at buzz baits me and my partner were throwing...my partner climbed on the butt seat on the back deck....... I had no choice at first to see if an oar I kept in the rod locker would give it the beat down to send it off with a head ache... I put the hurt on its head for sure ... whack whack whack ... it bit the blade of the oar after it slide off the side of its head... I was going to put ole Smith & Wesson on him if it persisted on attacking.

That Megladon tooth is way big bros..... imagine the mouth that thing belonged to....

A friend of mine used to dive that river for fossils. The current is fast enough that he tie long flathead screwdrivers to his hands to hold him still on the bottom. He said usually all he had to do was poke a curious gator in the nose and they’d swim off.

Not sure why you want to go getting in the water to find those Megalodon teeth. When I want to find them I don't get any more wet than my ankles.

Isolated incident...

To bad he didn't have one of these instead of a screwdriver.

Nope, not for me.

I wish they would get killed off the entire planet. I have no use for a gator and don’t care what the law says about their role in the ecosystem. I also don’t care what the law says about killing them. I love my dogs to much to even take a chance with one around. Kill them all if you see them.

Amen! I don't understand why these idiots want so many of them around! They are frigging left over dinosaurs. Get rid of 'em.

He made a trip over there every year. He found some pretty cool stuff including a saber tooth tiger skull, he sold some of his findings for substantial sums

If the skull is in good shape and those teeth are extra long, a nice Smileodon Skull can fetch 5 figures easy. The Megalodon teeth are kind of a marketing scam. They really should not cost more than about $10 a piece, they are very common. The shops you see them in with the crystals and other stuff like that order those teeth from catalogues by the SKU.

My uncle had a big gator nearly sink his flat bottom boat on the Alabama River years ago. Him and his buddy were fishing when a baby gator swam by. Maybe 10” long. His buddy grabbed it and thumped its nose. Baby gator started that “barking” noise they do. Mama gator came out of no where and attacked the boat.

Wrong time of the year to be around a momma gator.

Try shooting a 14’ 800# one multiple times with a bow fishing rig hooking him with a big treble hook and chasing him around the river for 3 hrs. When that mfr appeared 5’in front of the boat facing me bent down on the tiler steer trolling motor. Damn I miss the old gator hunts on the Alabama.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13338435/Florida-man-alligator-caught-Mik

More Gator action.

Scroll down for the 2nd Vid also. This dude is pretty rugged.