For local hunters looking for a challenge, a new state law has added alligators to the list of possible prey.

Gov. Mark Sanford signed a bill Feb. 19 creating an alligator hunting season that will start the first Saturday in September and end the first Saturday in October. State law requires hunters to restrain a gator with a rope, snare or wire noose before shooting it.

But in the Town of Bluffton and on Hilton Head Island, the new hunting season would not apply. Local ordinances prohibiting firearm discharges would trump state law.

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