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Alligator snapping turtle was sulled up and stuck in road.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 2:08 am
Posted on 9/21/18 at 2:08 am
Pushed it off the highway and on it's way. Heavy and ornery and a prehistoric relic.
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Posted on 9/21/18 at 3:28 am to jimdog
Where Im from, that turtle wouldnt have lived another day. I dont understand how someone can let a snapping turtle go. You must have never eaten them.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:04 am to saintsfan1977
I'll eat the regular snappers but I'm not killing a 50 year old alligator snapper. Something about the age makes me want to let it live. Also feel like I'm disturbing something. With deer I feel like their numbers are so high because of us so I eat em. With a lot of other stuff I feel like I'm stepping in where I shouldn't, like I'm disturbing something. Stupid, i know. I'm not starving so i go with it
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Posted on 9/21/18 at 4:04 am to jimdog
I picked up about a 40lbs Alligator snapping turtle and moved it off the road. looking back it was one of the top 10 dumbest things I have ever done. Wife thought I was going to lose my hand.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 6:36 am to jimdog
And you haven't an ounce of sauce piquante to show for it - good fricking job.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 6:48 am to jimdog
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Posted on 9/21/18 at 6:59 am to celltech1981
Have to say I agree. I'll eat common snappers but not alligators. In my younger years I would eat any big timber rattler I came across. Now its so rare to see a big one I'll go out of my way to relocate it if its in a road.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 7:01 am to jimdog
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Alligator snapping turtle
So your wife was mad
Posted on 9/21/18 at 7:07 am to jimdog
I live on a golf course.A pond on each side of the road.
I always help them across.Put on gloves.
I don't like cleaning up dead ones in the road,so,I help them.
I always help them across.Put on gloves.
I don't like cleaning up dead ones in the road,so,I help them.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 7:31 am to celltech1981
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I'll eat the regular snappers but I'm not killing a 50 year old alligator snapper. Something about the age makes me want to let it live.
Something about the taste makes me want to kill it.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 7:45 am to jimdog
Alligator snapping turtles and alligator gars are some of the most pre-historic looking things on the planet
Posted on 9/21/18 at 7:57 am to jimdog
Caught a 300lb one on a trotline once. Thing had to be 200 years old. I’ve heard a story of one found with a civil war musket ball in the shell. They live forever.
We ate it btw
We ate it btw
Posted on 9/21/18 at 7:59 am to jimdog
reminds me of a huge snapping turtle i saw in the middle of a plowed field, was able to get my hands on its shell behind its head and above its tail without getting bit, that pissed off beast was so heavy i couldn't lift it off the ground or drag it without risking losing a hand, left it right where i found it, came back later and followed its track to a bayou on the edge of the field, felt good, something that big should be allowed to die of old age...
Posted on 9/21/18 at 8:21 am to jimdog
wow! that picture doesnt really do it justice.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 9:30 am to celltech1981
Posted on 9/21/18 at 9:59 am to jimdog
I'd rather see a pic of this snapping turtle than half of this boards land whale wife.
Posted on 9/21/18 at 10:41 am to Mootsman
Have a plum tree next to my pond. Every year without fail when the plums turn and start falling, the same old alligator snapper shows up each and every day to eat those damn plums.
He's been showing up for about 30 years at least.
He's been showing up for about 30 years at least.
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