UniversalFrost
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I helped the local game and fish department one year control the turtle population in some small kids only fishing ponds. These ponds were in town so we used 22 LR's and of course the ponds were closed to the public and we only did the shooting during non peak hours of the day.
As far as hunting turtles I have only had to bag a few snappers when I was checking set lines and up comes a 3 foot long snapper on the end of the line. A quick shot to the head with an old H&R 922 and lights out. Be careful around the mouth. even when dead they can clamp down and their jaw locks and you have to cut the jaw and use pliers to get it apart (had to do this for a stray dog that found a snapper. had to whack the dog over the head to knock it out and then went to work getting the turtles jaw apart to release it from the dogs paw.
Don't worry the dog turned out ok and my buddy adopted him as he is still running around 9 years later. the dog doesn't mess with turtles anymore.
oh, also did try to store some turtle meat in a deep freezer once and it wouldn't freeze and all spoiled even though the temp in the freezer was close to 10degrees (lots of frozen turkey, deer, etc..).
JOE
As far as hunting turtles I have only had to bag a few snappers when I was checking set lines and up comes a 3 foot long snapper on the end of the line. A quick shot to the head with an old H&R 922 and lights out. Be careful around the mouth. even when dead they can clamp down and their jaw locks and you have to cut the jaw and use pliers to get it apart (had to do this for a stray dog that found a snapper. had to whack the dog over the head to knock it out and then went to work getting the turtles jaw apart to release it from the dogs paw.
Don't worry the dog turned out ok and my buddy adopted him as he is still running around 9 years later. the dog doesn't mess with turtles anymore.
oh, also did try to store some turtle meat in a deep freezer once and it wouldn't freeze and all spoiled even though the temp in the freezer was close to 10degrees (lots of frozen turkey, deer, etc..).
JOE