Turtle huntin'?

[Delvehound]

I was flipping through the small game booklet last night and saw snapping turtles in season. I've never seen turtles around here. Does anyone know anything about turtles? Where to find them? How to hunt them, and all that stuff.

[RonMexico]

I see turtles ever so often fishing but I never knew or wanted to hunt them.

[Wiggity]

Why would you want to hunt a turtle?

[Irving]

Why would you want to hunt a turtle?

Nuisance animal. Harasses livestock.

[Wiggity]

Nuisance animal. Harasses livestock.

in colorado?

[Irving]

Oh yeah. Every time you see something dead on the side of the road in Colorado...






turtle.

[spongejosh]

Why would you want to hunt a turtle?

People eat snapping turtles. I've never tasted it but some people love it.

[Troublco]

I worked on a Bison ranch up near Wray one summer during High School, and it had a creek running through the property that always had water in it. We had snappers in it that were huge! Big enough to do serious damage if they got hold of you. They didn't mess with the Bison, or cows, so we left them alone.

I've heard of people eating them too, but I don't think I'd care to try.

[StagLefty]

The "Tactical" ones are a threat

[Delvehound]

I've just never noticed snapping turtles in the booklet before. It got me curious, how the heck do you hunt something floating on water. If you shoot it, now you gotta figure out how to get it out of the water. If you use some sort of fishing pole / meat setup, now you're dealing with a pissed off turtle. Then once you do get it from the water, how the heck do you get to the meat through the shell. And what would you make with turtle? Other than soup (Not too appealing in 100° weather).