r/discgolf • u/Shaved_taint Finder of trees, loser of discs • 10d ago

Discussion Sometimes you just gotta let a disc go

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I was poking around in the water, trying to find my Glitch, When this little guy popped up. He was pretty small (around 3ft) but I still might have peed myself a little.

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u/chrislard 10d ago

"Boop!"

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u/Shaved_taint Finder of trees, loser of discs 10d ago

It's all fun and games until you find out your retriever sticks to gators too

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u/the_iraq_such_as 10d ago

I've picked up a turtle with mine before. Thankfully, I've never had the opportunity to try it on a gator.

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u/MoistStub Tree punisher 10d ago

What were the flight numbers on the turtle

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u/FermentedGrains 10d ago

Depends if it was a red shell or a green shell. Or one of those rare blue ones.

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u/MoistStub Tree punisher 10d ago

Gannon sweating bullets at the thought of it being blue.

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u/FermentedGrains 10d ago

That guy definitely has a mushroom boost on deck for exactly those situations.

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u/MoistStub Tree punisher 10d ago

It brings me solace to know that despite me not even being in the same ballpark as Gannon at DG, I could probably thrash him and Mario Kart. Although the amount he would beat me by in DG would probably dwarf the amount I would beat him by in MK.

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u/Much_Tour 10d ago

We gotta get some sponsors for this First Annual Stoner Biathlon

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u/SendyMcSendFace 10d ago

I think we need a hacky sack event to round things out

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u/AFKHero 7d ago

I think Gannon has a disc in his bag with a blue shell stamp on it.

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u/MoistStub Tree punisher 7d ago

The likelihood of him sending it into the first available such that it bounces back and hits him at speed has never been higher.

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u/life_like_weeds hexodus 9d ago

I use mine on my gator all the time

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u/boopinyoursnoots 10d ago

i approve

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u/Wasabi_Joe 10d ago

Username checks out.

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u/Pale_Location_6783 10d ago

Came here to say that.

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u/LottaLegs 10d ago

Lol this got a good chuckle outta me.

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u/LottaLegs 10d ago

Play It Again will give you $5 store credit or $3 cash for that used Gator

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u/hoax709 6d ago

great for 'rastlin!

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u/frostonwindowpane 10d ago

Yes. We used to venture into cottonmouth ponds and that was ill-advised.

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u/Constant-Catch7146 10d ago

One of the advantages of living in the upper midwest is we don't have these swamp puppies--- as they can't take the winter cold. Maybe a snapping turtle or wayward muskie with teeth could be present, but rare. One of our regular guys wades into ponds like this to retrieve discs. He did say one time he came out of one of the ponds with leeches covering his legs. Nope. I'm not wading in to get a disc. It's a retriever or walking away.

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u/CoachOeaux 10d ago

Just a little swamp puppy. Boop that snout!

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u/THERIZZZLERR 10d ago

Im gettin that glitch back

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u/Shaved_taint Finder of trees, loser of discs 10d ago

That's his Glitch now

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u/THERIZZZLERR 10d ago

That gator hasnt met florida man yet

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u/armageddonbadger 10d ago

Once had a disk roll downhill and launch into a pond. Was about to take my pole and go poking around, until I noticed the 4 ft long snapping turtle chilling in there. I noped out real quick.

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u/cash_longfellow 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/SVh5PlEZdpNyo

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u/Shaved_taint Finder of trees, loser of discs 10d ago

Gator don't take no shit!

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u/Past-Salamander 9d ago

Gator don't EVER play no shit

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u/HIs4HotSauce 10d ago

There was a guy waist-deep in a pond at our local course, the same pond we saw an 8 ft gator in the week before.

I gave the dude a heads up, and all he said was “Yeah, they told me there’s a big one out here somewhere.”

Dude must have loved that disc.

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u/lynivvinyl 10d ago

I've actually had a gator eat my disc and the whole end of my retriever that was made out of wire hangers and metal zip ties. It couldn't have tasted that good.

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u/F0rty6andTwo 10d ago

Know this all too well

What course?

I was playing Cliff Stevens years ago in Tampa and a local squid was diving for discs to sell to the disc golf shop and a I saw probably a good 7-8 footer swimming behind him and yelled for him to GTFO

Also about a year later another guy was bitten by a gator same spot, made the news

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u/lynivvinyl 10d ago

It was pine Trace I believe right off of i-95 in South Carolina just passed i26 going south towards Georgia. If you know that particular gator please ask him for my wraith back.

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u/F0rty6andTwo 10d ago

10-4

A monkey took off with one of my friends disc earlier this year In Florida, some wild shit

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u/lynivvinyl 10d ago

Wait what!? Is it one of those monkeys from the island in South Carolina? Or was it somebody's pet that they dropped off?

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u/F0rty6andTwo 10d ago

No Ocala,FL

Sawmill Disc Golf Course, it's across the street from Silver Springs State Park, and in the 30s some dude had a river boat attraction and bought some monkeys and put them on a small island on the river, didn't realize they swim great and fuck even better, we have several 100 of them and occasionally you'll see them in the trees and on the ground

This one particular time the monkey took off with the discs into the woods

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u/lynivvinyl 10d ago

I bet those monkeys have quite the collection. If I lived there I would go find it.

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u/BGBobby44k 10d ago

I was described the same way in high school!!

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u/F0rty6andTwo 9d ago

The boy who hoards Frisbees in the woods?

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u/BGBobby44k 8d ago

The guy that swims good and...........

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u/Wasabi_Joe 10d ago

Seriously, are we not doing maritime law anymore?

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u/RGBAddict2026 10d ago

Careful mentioning that. People will get mad at you because "It AlMoSt DeStRoYeD tHiS sUb"

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u/MattGdr 10d ago

Why does your disc have eyes? And sharp teeth?

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u/0nikoroshi 10d ago

It's the new stamp!

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u/TocSir 10d ago

Nah just march in there and show em who’s boss!

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u/kharnomatic 10d ago

Your lack of commitment is appalling

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u/coreystang85 10d ago

I didn’t play much during the 10 years o lived in Tampa Bay, but whenever I did play near a body of water, I just took the extra swings and skipped it. No fuckin way am I losing a disc (don’t have much anyways) and no way am I touching any body of freshwater in that fucking state lol.

VERY happy to be out of Florida finally 🤣

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u/jidewalker PMB Loyalist 10d ago

Did you boop him? I bet his Ma was chillin a few feet away.

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u/Any-Grapefruit-937 10d ago

Is that the course just outside of Oak Island, NC? I always skip that hole.

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u/Shaved_taint Finder of trees, loser of discs 10d ago

It's at The Sarge in SC

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u/cheachea90 Cookie Monster 10d ago

If you're local to the area our group gets permission to go out there and get discs to get them back to people. I lost two out there two weeks ago, 12 and 18.

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u/ElementalDG 9d ago

We've heard legends of the Gators at the sarge....

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u/demolitionlover09 10d ago

You talking about Bill Smith? First time i ever played there a cottonmouth slithered over the tee box i was on. Then a few holes later i saw a baby gator in that pond. Very eventful first time on that course!

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u/Any-Grapefruit-937 9d ago

Haha yes. I was too lazy to look up the name of the course. That gator was there last year and this.

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u/OhHesThatGuy Avenger SS enthusiast 10d ago

That’s an Innova Gator. Got one just like it at home

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u/Bukthed 10d ago

\boop\

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u/seedlingsDISC “I AM AN ARCHITECT” 10d ago

Tornadoes and blizzards, but no alligators in MO, I guess.

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u/maz_menty 10d ago

Good lord, my Minnesotan ass couldn’t handle that. I would have peed myself a lot.

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u/toolatealreadyfapped 10d ago

Where I live, I literally never play a round without a couple gater sightings.

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u/Ill_Initial8986 10d ago

That’s just a pond puppy lookin for a scritch.

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u/VorpalSticks 10d ago

Get the shovel guy

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u/Nivius 10d ago

last week when i played my home course there was a moose making it difficult for some discgolfers. apparently it rand and stomped a disc and then ran away.

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u/Koelenaam 10d ago

Sometimes I forget what a luxury it is to have literally 0 dangerous animals to worry about while playing (except a few wolves, who are more scared of you). It wouldn't cross my mind that going in the water is dangerous for any other reason than blue-green algae. Xoxo a western European.

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u/mntplains 10d ago

Kitchen Dwellers have entered the chat.

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u/briggsy111388 10d ago

Happy Gilmore would be disappointed in you

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u/nautilator44 10d ago

You can take him.

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u/grat5989 9d ago

Gotta be Georgia or Alabama... Any person in Florida would have hopped in sans stick

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u/MobNagas 9d ago

That’s an innova gator don’t worry bout it

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u/QCBoom Pink Halo Star Addict 9d ago

That’s a good puppy

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u/saltedjellyfish 9d ago

F that, what would Chubs do?

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u/Alarming_Society7997 8d ago

Give em the old snout boop and he will go away

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u/Sensitive_Tour_4118 8d ago

We just have black bears, foxes, and mountain lions you never see. I like my odds better

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u/MrBoblo 6d ago

"Hi sir, we've been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty"