For the Stokes family, finding and hunting gators is something quite exciting. On Saturday, they pulled an absolutely massive 15-foot, 1,011.5 pound gator out of the water during Alabama’s alligator hunting season.

Coming across an alligator of any size will send most people running in the opposite direction. For the Stokes family, however, finding and hunting gators is something quite exciting.

On Saturday, they pulled an absolutely massive 15-foot long gator out of the water during Alabama’s alligator hunting season. Weighing the reptile wasn’t easy, as it broke a winch assembly during the initial efforts.

A backhoe was recruited to successfully lift the gator, which tipped the scales about 1,011 pounds. It’s currently believed the hunting family broke a world record for the ‘largest American alligator ever legally killed by a hunter ‘.

Mandy Stokes, her husband John Stokes, brother-in-law Kevin Jenkins along with his two teenage children all worked together to catch and contain the monster gator. (4,1,1) (3,4,1) It took them about 10 hours to wrangle it.

This was Mandy’s very first gator hunt and she admits, it was certainly a grueling fight. She commented “Right now the fairest way for me to say it is that we'll apply again, but I can assure you, I have no desire to hook into anything like this again. I truly don't.”