September 06, 2021 - 6:00pm | By Kyle Cornell
(Columbia, MS) -- When first-time hunter Ty Powell went out recently for his first expedition of alligator season, he probably didn't think he'd come face-to-face with something straight out of the Cretaceous period.
A gator the Columbia, Mississippi, man and his fellow hunters had seen before, it took several hours for the four men to wrangle the near 800-pound creature. The alligator was 13-feet, two-inches with a belly girth of 66 inches. Powell admitted the gator could've been bigger, as part of its tail was missing.
It still tipped the scales at 787 pounds.