re: Alligator Snapping Turtle Restoration

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Common. He was a mad sonofabitch when I got him in the boat.

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I've said it before, but a 10lb common snapping turtle could kill a 50lb pit bull in the right confined space. Those frickers are evil sometimes.

I posted once in a thread, and EJW had it as his sig quote at one point, that a full grown common snapping turtle can jump and bite a grown man in the penis if they are standing next to each other. This is still true. One night years ago I thought it was a good idea to run some jugs for turtles in a gravel pit, from a pirogue, drunk, and with just a dog for help. GoPro footage of that night would have been entertaining. Imagine 2 big mean softshell turtles, a common snapper (caught on a limb-line), and a blue heeler in a 12' pirogue in the dark.