Hey everybody. I want to welcome you to a special alligator hunting episode of the

Turkey Hunter podcast. Those sounds you were just listening to are the mating bellows of

an American alligator, which is pretty pretty cool sounds a lot like a lion

roaring you guys ought to go to YouTube and check that out there's videos of that on

there and you need to watch and listen in order to appreciate the experience

as most of you know I drew a tag this year after applying for about eight years

for an alligator tag in southwest Alabama. And although we had plenty of opportunities to

harvest a gator, I wanted to kill a big gator and ended up not killing one at all. Despite not killing a gator, the whole process of the

hunt is truly an adventure. And on last week's episode, I promised you an alligator hunting story

for this week. Well, since I didn't kill an alligator, I don't have an alligator hunting story for you. I actually do have

stories, but I thought that you might want to hear a story of a kill. And so if you guys have

seen any of the new stories on USA Today or any of the online stories, or if you've read any of the

stories on Facebook or Twitter, there was

a monster alligator killed this year. And I happened to know one of the guys that was on the team

that killed that alligator. And so I've got this week an interview with Jeff Gregg, who lives in

Birmingham. And I got Jeff on to share his story of the alligator hunt,

where he and his team harvested this huge gator.

But before I get into the interview, I want to describe to you a little bit of the process of alligator hunting

and how all this comes about in Alabama, because every state is different.

And in Alabama, we actually put in for a

lottery in one or more alligator hunting zones all of the zones are in south Alabama and there are

four zones there's a southwest zone there is a west central zone there is a southeast zone and there's a

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