{"id":7077,"date":"2020-11-08T08:13:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T14:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2020-11-08T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T14:13:39","slug":"mn-deer-hunter-scores-buck-and-alligator-in-same-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/mn-deer-hunter-scores-buck-and-alligator-in-same-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MN Deer Hunter Scores Buck and Alligator in Same Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7078 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/124180505_10157738775853170_3507027527782923716_n-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/124180505_10157738775853170_3507027527782923716_n-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/124180505_10157738775853170_3507027527782923716_n-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/124180505_10157738775853170_3507027527782923716_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/124180505_10157738775853170_3507027527782923716_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7079 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123630226_10157738775663170_4016281505657305225_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123630226_10157738775663170_4016281505657305225_n-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123630226_10157738775663170_4016281505657305225_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123630226_10157738775663170_4016281505657305225_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7080 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123582151_10157738775528170_621023734797323752_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123582151_10157738775528170_621023734797323752_n-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123582151_10157738775528170_621023734797323752_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2020\/11\/123582151_10157738775528170_621023734797323752_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cory Klocek<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; this was a first for me&#8230; Great Minnesota gun opener&#8230; Odd Minnesota opener&#8230;. this morning I harvested a beautiful 10 point buck, this was my first ever deer with a shotgun, as I am usually a rifle hunter. As I&#8217;m walking around a pond, tracking my deer, I look down to see a 3 foot alligator 10 feet in front of me. After contacting the game warden, I was informed I could shoot it. No clue how it got there, or why. I&#8217;m guessing someone had it as a pet and released it when it got too big. Either way, only in 2020 can you go out to sit for deer gun season opener in Minnesota and shoot an alligator. I&#8217;m still at a loss of words lol. Legit speechless. The plan is to mount them together in a fun taxidermy piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Klocek Well&#8230; this was a first for me&#8230; Great Minnesota gun opener&#8230; Odd Minnesota opener&#8230;. this morning I harvested a beautiful 10 point buck, this was my first ever deer with a shotgun, as I am usually a rifle hunter. As I&#8217;m walking around a pond, tracking my deer, I look down to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":7078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whitetailfirst"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7081,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions\/7081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/whitetail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}