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Just wanted to share a recent success of taking a 8 foot 1.5 inch sow gator in Florida last month.
I got a good chunk of meat and the hide. I plan to mount the back plate on a board and put it on the wall. Not doing anything with the belly hide right now, too expensive to have tanned (over $300). I am getting the head mounted (with skin on it, the ones I saw looked really neat), and from the paws one will be a business card holder, one a pen holder, and two just plan.
Any recipes would be great to get if you have cooked gator before.
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2 more years and my boys will be on their first gator hunt. I booked it a couple weeks ago. One will be 10 and the other will be 8 hears old. They are both going trad hunting for them.
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I haven't cooked any gator, but I have eaten it. It was cut into little strips and deep fried. It was tres bon!
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Nice gator, I've always thought it would be cool to hunt one of them bad boys; someday perhaps. The one time I've had gator we did an egg wash then into a dredge of Andy's fish batter, then into the deep fryer. Delicious!!! TRW
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Congrats on the gator. Cut up in bite size pieces and fried is good. Blackened is also good. Alligator sauce picquante is also good. I've got 3 gator tags and my hunt starts Saturday.
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if you didnt bleed it out immediately, soak the meat for a few hours in buttermilk- roll in cornmeal and fry. OR soak in buttermilk and roast in the oven. ya can pound em a bit and grill em too. I like the cheek meat myself- nothing else quite like it imo.
L.R.
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