Turtle hunt
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How do you get to the turtles u shoot ,,what do you do when you just wound it ,and it goes under to suffer ,,sorry not trying given you a hard time IMHO is that if you cant reach something your shooting at.. why shoot it .YOU SHOW NO turtle pictures but show a picture of you shooting ,,i would summize if you recovered any turtles you would have posted the pictures... its only my opinion from past experience that haunts me from a long long time ago ,maybe posting this im trying to feel better,,ps i dont HYNZIE
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Here in Michigan, shooting reptiles with any type of weapon including airguns,is against the law. Personally I see no point in it anyway as there are enough Other things,such as pests like starlings ect to target..but to each their own,I guess.
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I should amend the title to “turtle miss” - if we did hit any, the 25 mph wind would have blown them to shore quickly. Our pond is overrun with turtles. Creepy how many heads are sticking up looking at you all the time. Have caught a few bass with chunks taken out of them from the snapping turtles. Those things mean business. Most of them just eat the grass around the pond tho.
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I swim in a small lake our camp is on. All the kids too. There are only a few turtles so no problem. But if they were there in big numbers, I'd have to do something about it.
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Personally I've had snapping turtle one time & they are dang good tasting. If they were out here in the west I'd be going after them, if I remember right they have several different flavors to there meat.
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Once i was swimmin cross turtle creek man them snappers all around my feet sure was hard swimmin cross that thing with both hands holdin on my ding o ling o ling
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Many years ago I lived on a pond infested with snapping turtles. Baby ducks didn't stand a chance because of the bass. You would see a litter of ducks dwindle in just a few days. But, I've seen many an adult duck die a miserable death where the snapping turtles would bite off one of their legs. It was really sad to see several one legged ducks just getting weaker and weaker over the weeks while nesting on the banks of the pond until they were weak enough some prey animal would eventually eat them because they were too week to get to the water. So I can understand wanting to thin the turtles out. I developed a pure hatred of snapping turtles when we lived there.
The duck population got so low that I had someone bring me 25 baby mallards that had just hatched. There was no way I could release them into the pond because the bass would have eaten them in a matter of days. I built a cage that went out into the water and you could watch the bass slapping at the wire of the cage trying to get to the babies.
The duck population got so low that I had someone bring me 25 baby mallards that had just hatched. There was no way I could release them into the pond because the bass would have eaten them in a matter of days. I built a cage that went out into the water and you could watch the bass slapping at the wire of the cage trying to get to the babies.
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I was going to send you a private message but since I've already spoken publicly I feel I must do this public too I guess what I want to say as I I shouldn't Post opinions about things others do to try to lessen the things that I have done wrong and for that I feel I must apologize HYNZIE
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