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Topic: Absolutely disgusting
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Wiley E
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posted March 29, 2007 07:10 AM
One of the things I dread most in the summertime while trapping beavers is catching those stinking snapping turtles. You can see you have a catch but when you lift the trap it ends up being one of those stinking snapping turtles with their gaping mouths just waiting to rip a hole in your hip boots. Damn things!
TA .17 recently helped me set up a beaver complaint between calling stands. Never in my wildest dreams did I think the water was warm enough for those %#*@^#ing snapping turtles to be out.
Yesterday I stopped to check these traps again and I could see I had a snapping turtle on a dam crossing (NW set TA) in the rushes. When I looked closer, another snapping turtle was pouring the coals to the trapped one. Double disgusting. The little stud turtle would snap the trapped turtle on the head "snap....snap, snap" which is turtle for "who's your daddy". Then he'd snap her again "snap, snap, snap" which is turtle for "how do you like me now". The little stud turtle was grinning from ear to ear and smoking a Marlboro as if to say, "you have no idea how long I have waited to get her in this position".
About then I heard a rustling in the rushes and heck, here's another couple of turtles doing the nasty. They must have payed to watch. Then it dawned on me, I WAS OBSERVING A TURTLE ORGY. About that time it dawned on me that I better kill or be killed. Just as I was about to raise my weapon, the little stud turtle slipped off the trapped turtle and disappeared. I chased him through the shallow water but couldn't get him flipped out on to the bank and he got away but I got the other 3 and caught another in a trap.
Too bad some of you turtle soup lovers weren't there to salvage something from this carnage.
Damn I hate those things. Prehistoric looking stinking bastards. A lot of times you end up lifting those traps about waist high so you know just where that gaping mouth is. DOAH!
~SH~
[ March 29, 2007, 07:11 AM: Message edited by: Wiley E ]
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Joel Hughes
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posted March 29, 2007 11:03 AM
Not much beaver trapping where I'm from, but I DO share your sentiments for turtles! They were always a huge disappointment while running trotlines!
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TA17Rem
Hello, I'm the legendary Tim Anderson, Southern Minneesota Know it all
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posted March 29, 2007 11:41 AM
LOL Scott. I'm sitting here at home and you are out there haveing all the fun. Don't lift those turtles to high in the air, they mite grab something and who knows when they will let go.. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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JD
HONORARY OKIE .... and Tim's at fault!
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posted March 29, 2007 02:22 PM
Make sure you carry a recording device when you`re playing with those turtles Scott, when one of em hooks on to your pee pee your bound to make some sort of howling sound that may be useful for locating coyotes, might even be a fairly convincing distress sound, let us know how it works. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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What do Obama & TA17Rem have in common........both are clueless asshats!!!
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nd coyote killer
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posted March 29, 2007 02:50 PM
LOLOLOLOLOL ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Tim Behle
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posted March 29, 2007 07:51 PM
Scott,
You just named another reason that I fell in love with the 17 Remington.
They are accurate enough to pick off a turtles head when he comes up for air at 100 yards.
For both beaver and turtle shooting, I used to charge by the number of shots fired. I didn't even attempt to break cover to make a body recovery.
Joyce took to painting the local box turtles a year or two ago. She gives them a pretty design, and a number and turns them loose. We had one with yellow and orange flames on the side show up quite a few times last summer. I think he was #6
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posted April 02, 2007 09:01 PM
Years back, before my Dad left us, he had a pet domestic mallard duck as a pet, named "Herman". Out behind their home in rural Wisconsin was a small pond that Herman enjoyed much of the time when he wasn't in Dad's workshop. One day Dad heard Herman putting up quite a clatter and upon further examiniation, Herman was being pulled under the water in the pond. Dad ran to the pond and reached into the water trying to find what was pulling Herman under. A snapping turtle grabbed Dad's finger and at the hospital emergency room he needed seven stitches. That was a declaration of war. For weeks he watched for that turtle. Then it happened, a large snapper was sunning himself on a log on the other side of the pond. The old man, then almost 80, ran into the house and grabbed his 220 Swift. One shot...one turtle. Whether or not it was THE turtle we will never know. However, the old man went to his grave confident he was vindicated.
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