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"He broke all the lines we could put in him. Finally [we] put a snare on him and got him up high enough and put a shot on him. All in all probably took us four and a half hours to catch him from the first time we saw him," Bockman said Monday.
Bockman's catch now holds the current weight record for a gator taken during alligator hunting season by a Mississippi hunter.
The current length record is 13 feet, 6.5 inches from an alligator taken on the Pascagoula River in 2008.
Brandon Maskew of Ellisville also set a record over the weekend with a female alligator after catching a 10 foot long 295.3 pound alligator Friday.