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tbrown wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 5:50 pm There are still plenty of reasons to carry, although most of them walk on two legs.

After I wrote the post, I realized that, on this site, I would get a comment such as yours.

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:58 pm This is why claiming to shoot a gator in self defense is pretty laughable.

Pretty much my thought. The first time I did this, I carried my .45, hoping I could get a head shot if necessary. But over time I quit bothering to carry.

Interblog wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:53 amI realize that the odds of encountering a nuisance gator are very low, but (a) I like to kayak and (b) I like to have a contingency plan in my head, just in case. How would you handle it if you were in a one-person non-motorized craft and you were suddenly faced with a twelve-footer? This was the question I was asking myself yesterday as I was paddling carefully along the shore.

Obviously I can issue no guarantees, but I have canoed and kayaked in many places where alligators abound. I've never had one take any interest in me. Gatory places I have been include coastal bayous such as the Guadalupe Delta, Caddo Lake, the Angelina-Neches Forks at the back end of B. A. Steinhagen, and Choke Canyon Reservoir. I was in the back end of Choke Canyon paddling up the old river channel and encountered a gator on the bank that seemed to me, in the instant we confronted each other, to be as long as my 14-foot kayak. He immediately dashed into the water to hide.

I would not, however, want to go swimming in any such places.