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A group of hunters caught a 13-foot, 1/2-inch alligator in Mississippi's Ross Barnett Reservoir.

The team, led by tag-holder Joe Wyrick, captured the massive reptile in only 15 minutes.

The alligator, estimated to weigh between 600 and 700 pounds, required help from another group of hunters to be loaded into the boat.

Wyrick and his team were not expecting to find an alligator of that size in the reservoir.

A group of alligator hunters were hunting on Ross Barnett Reservoir and they were looking for a big one . At a monstrous 13 feet, 1/2 inch long, not only did they catch one that well-exceeded their expectations, they did it in only minutes.

"Everything went perfect," said Joe Wyrick of Coldwater, the tag-holder. "It was text book.

"Everybody worked so well

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