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A Well Guided Gator Hunting In Louisiana

By Mattie Knight


A Louisiana gator is one of the largest reptiles in United States with the population of the reptiles approximating to over 1.4 million gators. Many of these creatures live around commercial farms. If you want to try reptile hunting in Louisiana, you should try it only in the month of September every year. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in the city set the dates. Every hunter in the city uses guided gator hunting in Louisiana.

The hunters of this reptile must be licensed before engaging in the habitats. They should own a land classifies as wetland habitat. Harvest tags are given to the owners of these lands by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Guides throughout their trips escort the qualified hunters.

The non-residents must purchase sport hunter licenses and a guide whose tags are valid must escort the hunters. The guides in Louisiana have the best access to the best habitats. They are able to take you to the preeminent areas for finding the best catch. Guides mostly help you to get the trophy reptile, which is known to be 8 feet long. Any harvested reptile must have harvest tags. The cost of most trips does not include any taxidermy or processing of animals although it is an optional.

The trips are offered with or without overnight lodging. Some guiding companies take hunters on day hunts while others may take them for night hunts. The weekend hunts sometimes may include overnight camping like in Yellow Bayou camp. However, there are other lodging services at every hotel in the city. Tanning services are not mostly included in cost of the trip. Any hunting trip offered at Wildlife Lodge and Grosse Savanne Waterfowl includes accommodations for overnight trips. Provost Adventures in LA offer trips for hunters only.

Orientations are made before any hunt is made. The animal may be harvested during either sunrise or sunset only. The daily allowance is the same as the tags that the hunter has. Hunters are not restricted to any size of reptile to hunt. The reptiles may be harvested by use of bow and arrow, hook and line and firearms. Shotguns are however not permitted in the process.

Non-residents can harvest the reptile as a sport hunter while escorted by the guide. The person escorting the hunter must possess all the valid tags. The non-resident can also obtain the tags on the land or habitat as long as they provide the relevant information in documents concerning the ownership of land.

A Sport Hunter License in Louisiana for residents may cost less than the cost of non-residents. Louisiana City is the king when it comes to this reptile harvests with the hunters harvesting over 30,000 wild gators annually. Farmers are able to harvest over 280,000.

Hides are sold to licensed fur buyers and dealers. Sometimes the whole gator is sold to the processing industries to make other products. Other buyers can arrange to get the meat and skin of the big reptile from the hunters. Louisiana has at the past years dominated in breeding and hunting of the reptile.




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