turtles

[Robhuntandfish]

Been seeing turtles in the road everywhere today.  Must be from all the high water?  Keep and eye out they run right out in front of you! lol 

had a buddy that always used to get turtles and cook the meat.  It was ok but nothing i want to wrestle a snapper for.  

[Bionic]

[Steuben Jerry]

9 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

wrestle a snapper

Queuing Pygmy in 3..2..1..

[mowin]

I've had turtle soup a couple times. Wasn't bad. 

[G-Man]

Egg laying season.. I like seeing the box turtles will go out of the way to move them out of road..can pass on helping snappers and painted...

[turkeyfeathers]

I seem to rescue a turtle or 2 off the road every spring on way home from turkey hunting . Grabbed a painted off the road last year and threw it in the hatch of my Outback into a box. thought I heard it scurrying around back there. When the next water source became available I popped the hatch, box empty, he was peaking out of the garment pocket of my golf bag. (I couldn't plop him in the pond I think he came from as it was a few hundred yards into someones yard and wasn't up for trespassing)

[turkeyfeathers]

Knew I had a pic


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[Robhuntandfish]

1 hour ago, Steuben Jerry said:

Queuing Pygmy in 3..2..1..

knew when i wrote it it was high heat for a Pygmy!  lol

[Robhuntandfish]

last year i was driving home from work and there is a truck backing up the other lane so i pull out of the way on shoulder cause i didnt know what the hell he was doing.....until...... i ran over the turtle he was trying to save.  Damn it! Prob made him curse and his kids cry, but i was watching him and not the turtle!  damn it! 

My buddy that worked for the DOT used to pick up snappers and throw them into the patrol truck.  One day i ran into him and he had six in the back.  He def liked turtle.  Always loved going to his cookouts and asking whats this??......could be anything from caribou to snapping turtle. 

[philoshop]

I'll save a turtle in the road, but I won't die for it. I've picked many of them up and just taken them back from whence they came, giving them a stern talking-to along the way. ;-)

Hunting snappers with bowfishing gear is a different thing, however. That's some tasty meat.

FWIW the nasty bumps on the corners/turns of racing tracks are called turtles. Best to avoid them because you'll spit out a bunch of marbles of tire rubber shortly thereafter. not good for the suspension either.

[Pygmy]

39 minutes ago, Robhuntandfish said:

knew when i wrote it it was high heat for a Pygmy!  lol

I  bagged several before I got the nerve to eat one....They didn't pass the sniff test...

[Daveboone]

Several years back I found a decent snapper crossing the road, and for the first time cleaned him up. I was amazed to end up with close to four pounds of beautiful red meat from him, and butchering was quite a bit easier than I anticipated. I got a recipe online from the Louisiana bayou chef Emeril (think I got that right)….soup was delicious, but the meat definetly needs tenderizing / long slow parboiling. What was most amazing, was a full six hours after chopping its head off, the heart was still beating!!

[First-light]

I watched a video of a guy killing and cleaning a snapper turtle. Head was cut off the thing still walked around and the mouth kept on biting. This went on for a while. 

[wolc123]

I once killed a decent sized snapping turtle with a bush-hog by accident.   I was surprised how easily it chopped up compared to a woodchuck that I got another time with the same machine.  The woodchuck nearly stalled the tractor but the turtle was barely noticeable. 

[crappyice]

Wow ...this sure took a bloody turn! This went from save the turtle to turtle soup to turtle chainsaw massacre quick!


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[Pygmy]

I have never been able to clean one in much less than half an hour  ...Three of us did 18 one morning and it was quite a chore..

Funny thing happened while we were doing it though...We were about halfway finished and a car pulled into the drive... Jehovah's Witnesses...

A young boy got out of the car in his Sunday best carrying his armload of  WATCHTOWERS....I walked out to meet him, blood from head to toe and holding a bloody knife in my hand..

He took one look at me,  turned kind of pale, and said " Maybe this isn't a good time"...And promptly retreated back to the car..