Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Deer Sniper · Super Member Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Posts: 539

Can't afford to get in trouble....

D/S

roklok · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 7:53 pm Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Looks like a snapping turtle to me, is loggerhead another name for the snapping turtle?

Deer Sniper · Super Member Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Posts: 539

I have always referred these particular turtles as loggerhead but some do call them snapping turtles as well....

D/S

Pumpkinslinger · Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Loggerheads are sea turtles >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Sea_Turtle

Snapping turtles are freshwater >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...ing_turtle

Starting to sound like D, aren't I ... Shocked

tikkat3 · Super Member Joined: Jul 30, 2006 Posts: 800

That loggerhead must have been running around a fair bit to corner your bassett hound

SingleShotLover · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:54 am Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Might want to make sure to use the term "snapping turtle"....as far as I know Federal law protects loggerheads. Sure hate for you to do time on a bum rap!!! The PETA idiots are liable to try to make the case of "well, he called it a loggerhead." Shocked

hunterjoe21 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Did he live?

1895ss · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:02 pm Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Looks to me like he sprung a leak!!!

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

You know I hear when you catch these your supposed to let them soak in a tub of clean water for a couple of days to get the taste to clean up.

Still haven't caught one though, but everytime I go to a place to fish where I can legally catch them and they are there believe me I try to get them. Laughing

Dimitri

roklok · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

snapping turtle is pretty good eatin, not so easy to clean. A buddy of mine back in PA used to catch hundreds of them and sell them to fancy restaurants in NYC. Float an airtight bottle in a pond with a large hook hanging down a few feet with chicken liver or beef spleen on it. Works pretty well. Snapping turtles are very hard on geese and ducks.

hunterjoe21 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

I've lost many a bluegill to them...

'course, we were hookin' the 'gills just under the dorsal fin tryin' to catch Northerns with 'em, with about an once of lead to keep 'em from leavin the scene......

Vince · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:09 am Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

Deer Sniper wrote:

Can't afford to get in trouble....

D/S

Was there a pic with this thread mate? Be nice to see perzakerly what you are talkin' about. Very Happy

Cheers, Vince

whittling · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:39 am Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

i cant wait to get a snapper . in mass you can kill as many as you want

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

Deer Sniper,

There is nothing wrong with getting yourself a turtle, unless I'm missing something ?? Confused

Dimitri

vint2 · Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Loggerhead meets Ruger!!!

You have some good eating there and if you let me know when dinner is served I might be on my way to Texas to see kin and could stop in and help you get rid of the evidence!!!! Laughing

Now, I am wondering if someone can tell me why I am seeing the front end of my barrel through my scope. Gun is zeroed in but this is a whale of a distraction!!! Confused