According to the link below, I am guessing the answer is no. Average according to the article is 6.1 meters or 20 feet! I guess I have been going to the wrong places!

http://www.compareanimal.com/2...water-crocodile.html

To shoot an average crocodile one needs average brains.

I don’t know about you, but I certainly fall short of that!

The people who wrote that article certainly fell short!

I guess I came up "short" again. He was just "short" of 12 ft.

If you look at that article close you will see that there is a Hell of a discrepancy between the information given at the start of the article and ther statistics given in the comparison chart farther down in the article.

No. The 2 I killed were youngsters-14 and15’...

Of course it's not the size of the croc that matters...…………

But only guys with small crocs say that...……...

That was pretty clever.

Mine looked bigger than average through the scope.
Then ground shrinkage slapped me upside my face.
Only 12.5 feet.

I think they do not know what average means.
They say the average Nile is about 20 feet. I have seen 5 footers. So somewhere there is a 35' croc to make the average.

M

More likely they put the real average in feet and called it meters.

Proud to report that I'm the Adam who tried to put the record straight on that site on 22 May 2017

When hunting out of matombo camp in the little blue boat, we saw what my ph, cameraman, and trackers said was a fourteen and a half foot croc. They got all wound up. I at the time was chasing tuskless. Glad I wasn't chasing crocs. Would have got talked into shooting a little one. Whew got lucky on that one. Haha

HUMMMM...what is it they say about a certain brand of aviator: Wings of Gold, Big Watches and Small Crocs!!

I think my largest croc was about 10 or 11 ft., but then I only shot a couple to keep me in boot leather! Never was much of a croc hunter, spent all my time hunting buffalo and camp meat for the most part, but didn't turn down any trophy animal as a rule.

Like Ray, I simply never had a desire to shoot a croc of any length. That is not to say one shouldn't shoot them, but if they do I would say to shoot the largest he can find, and leave the little 10 ft babies to do the breading!

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I’m going next year for a croc. I’m interested only in the quality of the skin for croc boots. The rest is for the adventure. Not interested in trophies. Maybe I’ll get two.

Well, my little croc measured 14'1" with the tail chomped off and still bloody...right where the tail dips down then feathers to a point....PH estimated 12-18" gone...so mid-15's?? Just off the Zambezi in breeding ponds above Lake Chabrra Bossa.
Eyeman- don't forget a nice Belt or too as well!! Nice thing about a big old gnarly Croc you can trim the belly skin for boots and belts and still have a very nice either flat skin mount or a lifesize...nobody will ever know the difference!!
Cheers,

The biggest croc in captivity and that's official is a salty that measures 20 ft. 3 inches. He's a tourist stop in some little village in the Philippines.