South Carolina Hunters Bag 11-Foot Gator with Deer Antler Stuck in Its Mouth

 

It’s incredible what afflictions some wild animals can. put up with in their fight for survival. This incident exemplifies that. On September 30, an alligator hunter in South Carolina brought their quarry—an 11-foot gator—to Cordray’s, a meat processing chop in Ravenel, South Carolina. But it there was something unusual about the dead gator; it had the fully formed 3x3 antler of a whitetail buck stuck in the tissue of its mouth.

Michael Cordray, the owner of the processing shop, took photos of the gator with the jammed antler and then removed it from the dead reptile’s mouth. The antler appears to be still attached to a small chunk of bone, signaling that it was taken from a dead deer the gator had kille5d or scavenged and not a shed antler...more