Modern firearms allowed large animals to be killed with some reliability, although at times crocodile hunters found themselves hauling in animals that were only stunned.
This crocodile skin is being processed in Australia; many were sent overseas to be turned into manufactured goods.
Dulice Campbell, with two crocodiles at Sunday Gully, North Queensland, c1950. While crocodile hunting was widely perceived as adventurous, dangerous, and macho some women participated.
The killing of large crocodiles was a noteworthy event throughout the colonial period.