1,000-pound alligator caught in Alabama sets Safari Club International world record
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A gigantic alligator caught by a family in Alabama earlier this month has set a Safari Club International world record.
AL.com reports (http://bit.ly/1zT6HTu ) a pair of master measurers from Safari Club International examined the 1,000-pound alligator on Friday, determining a total length of 15-feet, 9-inches.
That's 13 inches longer than the organization's previous world record American alligator, which had been killed in Texas.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Alabama alligator was caught by the Stokes family after battling with it for more than five hours. It was hooked in a creek about 80 miles west of Montgomery.
The first attempt to weigh the gator destroyed a winch state biologists typically use, so they had a backhoe lift it.