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I have no personal experience in this, but an old coworker used to hunt alligators, legally. He only used a crossbow since “no bullet is effective”, he’d say. His scary story was when on a Jon boat, he inadvertently came too close to a nesting mama gator. It nearly broke the boat in half. Caught off guard, .357’s were “bouncing off her head” and only served to distract her long enough for him to move away from her protected area.
Now normally, alligators that aren’t starving for food are not aggressive. A neighborhood pond here freqently has a lone gator visit for a week or so. I’ve watched many try to capture them but it’s always a game warden, a loaf of wonderbread and a roll of duct tape that snags it. Pretty cool to watch that kind of skill.