Family captures 1,000-pound alligator after 10-hour battle

An Alabama family battled a half-ton monster alligator over the weekend for ten hours before finally capturing the record-breaking colossal beast.

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Mandy Stokes and her crew wrangled the 15-foot alligator Saturday afternoon near Camden and brought the behemoth to a check-in station at Roland Cooper State Park where the giant reptile weighed in at a whopping 1,011.5 pounds, AL.com reports.

The gator hunters including Stokes' husband John, brother-in-law Kevin Jenkins and his two children Savannah, 16, and Parker, 14, started their search Friday night and wound up wrangling their mammoth catch until Saturday afternoon.

They fought with the gator for hours before firing the fatal shot.

"He came up just as calm as he could," Stokes told AL.com. "When I pulled the trigger this time, water just exploded on all of us."

Mandy Stokes, right, caught the 1011.5 pound alligator with her husband John Stokes, at her right, her brother-in-law Kevin Jenkins, left, and his two teenage children, Savannah Jenkins, 16, and Parker Jenkins, 14.Photo: AP

The gargantuan gator is the largest to be killed in the state of Alabama, beating the former record by 173.5 pounds.

It may even devour the record for world's largest alligator as well, which was previously declared in June to be a 14 foot, 8-inch, 880-pound alligator killed in Texas back in 2007, according to the Safari Club International.

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The beast was so enormous that when Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries biologists attempted to weigh the creature, it completely destroyed the winch assembly designed to lift most alligators, according to AL.com

Stokes said she's likely to get out there to hunt again but she isn't after another record-breaking catch.

"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," she said. "I truly don't."

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