You will see gators all year round, when it is cold or has been cold for awhile they will not move as much that is why you can get right up on them.

Dammit boy, by a taxidermist!

The Duck Commander does it on one of his videos. They are duck hunting and a doe goes to walk across their pond and Phil grabs his rifle misses the deer the 1st shot and then hits it on the run with the 2nd shot. I don't what state it was filmed in, but he got away with it.