Once you get exposed to it, you can smell 'em. The have a scent like decaying garbage with a hint of rotten cantaloupe overtone. They emit this scent when they are upset. If you are hanging around the swamps and you pick up that scent, take the safety off your weapon, turn slowly around, inspect your exit path, then get the hell outta there.
Largest one I ever tangled with was 5'4" long but the sucker was 14" around in the middle. Three 22 long rifle hollowpoints in the brain housing group dispatched his smelly self to the nether regions.
Tom A.
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