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Dustin Bockman is pictured with his record setting alligator, weighing 330 kg and measuring 3.96 metres, captured in Vicksburg, Mississippi on Sunday. Bockman and his crew spotted the mammoth creature in the river and trailed it for two hours before getting close enough to spear it. It took another two hours to hook it with a second line and get a noose on its neck.

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