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Sep. 21, 2012 8:15am Jonathon M. Seidl

Mike Cottingham may have just landed himself in the record books by landing a massive alligator in Arkansas.

Cottingham caught the giant 13 footer that he told Fox16 weighs in at 1,380 lbs. “The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (AGFC) says the alligator is the biggest one caught since the annual legal harvesting season began in 2007,” Ozarksfirst.com reports.

So how old is an alligator that reaches 13 feet and over half-a-ton? The AGFC estimates about 30-years-old. And at that age and size, Cottingham says that it took five people to get the massive reptile onto the dock after he killed it.

You can see a picture below:

Mike Cottingham Giant Alligator in Arkansas

(Photo: Mike Cottingham)

Cottingham told Fox16 that he plans to mount the head and use the rest to make boots.

You can see more pictures here.

(H/T: Daily Mail)

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kevin542
Posted on September 23, 2012 at 10:16am
Man someones going to have a BIG cookout on gator meat…

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- supermansdad
  Posted on September 23, 2012 at 4:02pm
  On many of the bigger gators much of the meat is too fatty to be edible. Recently read a similar story of another extremely large gator that was killed but only had 40 or so pounds of edible meat due to the fat content.
  
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Wildlife
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 5:43pm
!,380 pounds, huh.

Sounds like some serious fact checking is in order.

The internet, gotta love it.

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flatbroke
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 5:04pm
WOW thats a big pair of gator boots, and the animals are protected they can only hunt them for 30 days out of the year!

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Mingaw
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:44pm
Why kill it! Senseless waste! Rare to see one this big, it should have been protected. Those people should be put in jail or fined a hefty some. There is no need of this kind of hunting. Egotistical, arrogant, ignorant, self serving murder of a beautiful beast. Man has not changed. Time for women to rule the earth, their time has passed…

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- LordOfTheArchons
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 2:54pm
  Stupid woman. You wouldn’t be saying that if it was eating your kid. Then you would be asking why the Government didn’t hunt and kill it sooner and then demand that a law be put in place to that says alligators over a certain length must be hunted and killed because they are a threat to children.
  
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- ohiowordguy
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 3:06pm
  Troy Landry gonna open a can of alligator-hunter whoopass on you! Choot ‘em!
  
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- Rory82
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 3:09pm
  I agree we should protect those animals. We can put them all in cages and hand feed them until they are completely dependent on us then when they start to over populate we can just abort their babies. That would be much more humane than hunting
  
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- SgtB
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 5:44pm
  Where do you get off thinking you own all the wildlife this world has to offer? Why do you and people like you think that the only way to get food is from a wal-mart or a pigglywiggly? People hunt for sport and to put food on their tables. For the life of me, I still can’t understand why you people and government think you can “legally” tell me what I can and cannot harvest from nature to feed and cloth myself and my family. Please tell me where I gave you that power over me. I didn’t sign into that.
  
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- Wildlife
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:54pm
  The great thing about the internet is that it give the average person a voice. The worst thing about the internet is that it gives the average person a voice.
  You actually believed the story? An internet story? The worst part is that several local Arkansas TV stations are reporting it as well.
  I guess all common sense goes out the window on the internet.
  1380 pounds? 13 feet long? That’s 100 pounds a foot. Do you actually believe that?
  
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- bulletsinthegun
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:30pm
  It got that big eating Clinton Libs
  
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PhineasJWhoopee
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:06pm
In Florida we give the cute little ones like this to the kids to play with.

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rainman146
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:58pm
Meh, there were two 14-footers killed in central Alabama this season. One weighed 814 pounds and the other 795 pounds. Check it out at http://www.outdooralabama.com/oaonline/gators12.cfm

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Uuuuuuuuuuuugh
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:25pm
OBAMAS EXECUTIVE ORDERS:

THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
(Think each one over carefully for its significance and government control over your life)
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the of all persons. Postmaster General to operate a national registration
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
-EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over

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- MCDAVE
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:58pm
  Imposter President,, Throw him out and declare all his actions Null and void
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 3:52pm
  None of those are Obama’s Executive Orders. They were all signed by President Kennedy in 1962.
  
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- fatpatriot
  Posted on September 22, 2012 at 8:31am
  chet, after a quick search your assertion that these are Kennedy executive orders is accurate. However the bigger concern is the amount of power vested in the executive branch by these orders. Kennedy, although not a Progressive, did load the chamber for anyone following to “pull the trigger”. Your statement is accurate but the looming consequences are still frightening.
  
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pmacres
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:14pm
I would love to hear Joe Biden comment.

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- johnjamison
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:25pm
  Obama would say they didn’t catch and kill that.
  
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Rory82
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:13pm
People are missing how big this gator was by looking only at the length it is the weight that is impressive to put it into perspective the previous state record was 13`1 but only weighed 680 lbs.

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- countryfirst
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:39pm
  It is a no brainer that this gator was able to drink some 32 oz big gulps. Thank God they don’t have gators in NY city.
  
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SomePeoplesKids
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 11:14am
Alligators are one of my favorite animals to photograph where I live in Arkansas. While that is a nice sized gator, ‘giant’ is overstating it a bit. I’ve encountered more than a few that are around 16 feet or more.

Regardless, congratulations Mr. Cottingham on a very nice kill. Should make for some great tailgating grub for the remaining football season.

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- SovereignSoul
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 11:45am
  According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission website the average alligaor length is around thirteeen feet. The Macmillan onlinne dictionary describes giant as “”used describe some plants and animals that are much llarger than others of the same type.”
  
  But how would this headline look?
  
  SEE THE AVERAGE-SIZED 13 FOOT ALLIGATOR….
  
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Big Media Bias
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 10:00am
Blonde women sprawled out laying on top of a massive gator is SEXY!!!

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- hold_my_stones
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 10:53am
  Big gator, but have seen bigger in FL. That meat is probably tough as shoe leather. Soak in salt water for a couple days to tenderize…Ideal size is 6-7 footers, tender meat & good hide.
  
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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 11:13am
  BEST KEPT SECRET
  
  Since when does Arkansas has gigantic alligators? Yankee retirees don’t know this and buy sucker land and homes along beautiful lakes and water ways. The first thing they notice after moving in is their cats and dogs disappearing. Now we know the truth.
  
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kathystone
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:24am
You all have it wrong! Poor big alligator! Picking on a poor defenseless animal! My he looks so hungry in the picture! Maybedig a trench at the border and put in a binch of these bigg gatorpoos. They could catch and eat those who cross without ….oh, wait, that would be cruelty to animals as it is a diet too high in fat…. never mind

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this1can
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:15am
The restaurant at bass pro sells alligator, you get nine onces for thirteen dollars. I talked to the manager, he said its getting hard to come by he sales it as fast as he can get it. This guy just put a good chunk of money in his pocket. Good for him. That big old head would be pretty cool to have.
Love/pray

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sWampy
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:07am
This has to be a fake story, alligators are myth’s of the past, or maybe only in zoos, after all the left declared in the 70′s that we had hunted them past the point of survival.

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forthepeople
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:00am
Washington DC has much bigger ones along with rats , coach-roaches !

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toiletclogga
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:50am
Choot it!

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- rabblechat
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:58am
  “Choot em Lizabeth!”
  
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rabblechat
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:49am
Mike can take the credit if he wants, but he knows that he didn’t catch that trophy gator by himself. How would he of drove his truck down to the water to catch that beast if it wasn’t for the roads WE built for him? Did he build the gun that he used to slay that monster? What about the gas in his boat, surely he hasn’t forgotten that it was taxpayer dollars that got the gas to his local filling station.
Even if he overlooked all of this he couldn’t have forgotten that it was our dear leader who gave him permission to harvest this behemoth….

So congrats Mike but don’t forget about who really caught this biggun when you are stitchin up those boots….

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flrepublican
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:46am
Not that big, my brother in law has killed a 13′ 4″ and a 14′ here in FL

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term limits for congress
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:31am
I thought it got too cold in AR for alligators. Who’d a thunk it?

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- SomePeoplesKids
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 11:23am
  They’re only in the southern part of the state. It does get cold sometimes but they dig burrows and go dormant. It’s pretty swampy down here in some spots.
  
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Shawnkk
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:31am
I just got off the phone with Obama and he said “Mike Cottingham didn’t kill that”.

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Bobby D
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:29am
I see two pair of nice shoes for me!!!. How about you?

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razhunter100
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:23am
boots, belt, purse…food for a month

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paulsfam4
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:23am
the govt will want a percentage of the hide!

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:19am
Amazing, that is the fishermans ‘big fish’ of the alligator world that did not get away.

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cubber
Posted on September 21, 2012 at 8:18am
Big boots.

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