5 Year Old Shoots 800lb Gator. Raised Right in TX.

[twyacht]

Get this boy some gator skin boots....


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559103,00.html

Texas Boy, 5, Shoots Down 800-Pound Alligator

Friday, October 02, 2009

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 MyFOXHouston

Simon Hughes, 5, sits beside the 800-pound alligator he shot down in Texas.

Texas-born Simon Hughes, 5, doesn’t look intimidating. But put a gun in his hands and pit him against an 800-pound alligator and it’s a different story.

Simon's been training to handle a gun since he was just 4, his dad told MyFOXHouston — and it's a good thing, too, or else he could've gotten hurt by the mega-gator that wound up on the Hughes family ranch.

The huge alligator bit into a baited hook in a marsh on the property, coming face-to-face with Simon. The boy reacted with lightning speed, grabbing his gun and shooting the reptile in the head.

"It come out, the biggest alligator I've ever seen," Simon told MyFOXHouston. "He did his death roll."

The reptile was nearly 20 times the 3-foot, 44-pound boy’s size. It didn't survive the shooting.

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His dad Scott Hughes said there's a reason he started training his son, who is in kindergarten, to shoot guns at such an early age.

"Everything on the ranch will either bite you or stick you," he told MyFOXHouston.
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    * 'Gator Bait'

The little boy has now earned the nickname "Gator Bait."

"Simon was a champ, couldn't ask for any better. He was just fearless," said Chuck Cotton, a family friend who witnessed the shooting.

The family plans to cook up the meat to celebrate.

[MikeBjerum]

GREAT STORY!!!

You know that is a nickname that is going to stick.  Eighty years from now he's gonna be sittin on the porch with a mason jar of shine and some kid is gonna ask "Hey bait, how'd you get your name?"

[Badgersmilk]

Read:  Proudest family in the world right now!  

Good shoot'n kid!

[Hazcat]

A single barrel 410 loaded with bird shot!  Lucky kid.

[Badgersmilk]

Yeah, he had a 20 gauge H&R & shells in the video, but said .410    Still, lucky kid!

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[fightingquaker13]

A single barrel 410 loaded with bird shot!  Lucky kid.

Haz
You BETTER deny Haz jr access to this site. Otherwise you will be facing all sorts of "reasonable" demands for 16th birthday trips. Naked barefoot antelope hunts, bushman style, for antelope where you run your prey down across the Khalahari. Spearhunting (bayoneted rifles okay) for lions in the Serengeti with a Maasi guide. Swimming for sea snakes off New Guniea. Maybe Cape Buffalo with big bore airguns. Bow hunting for Brown Bears in Siberia. By the time the kid gets done, fixing up that old motor bike you have in your garage and letting him ride it will seem reasonable.
FQ13

[Badgersmilk]

Correction, looks like a .410 gun, 20 gauge shells.  

[ericire12]

Pics

[Hazcat]

Pics

At the link, video, too.

[r_w]

A single barrel 410 loaded with bird shot!  Lucky kid.

 

was it:

A) Luck
B) Skill
C) Divine intervention  
D) ALL OF THE ABOVE