Turtle huntin'?

[Wiggity]

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






turtle.

[Daniel_187]

Nuisance animal. Harasses livestock.

Especially when there are one eyed snakes in the water. I saw one at Sawhill ponds a few years ago it was the size of a toilet seat(the big kind) if I wanted to I could have reached down and picked him up and lose a diget or 2. I don't mess with them.

[zteknik]

Back in NY we had a snapping turtle that lived in the pond close by that was the size of a car tire!!
The thing was huge and nasty!!!
The owner of the pond had to call in the game wardden to get it out because it was scaring of his ducks.

[gnihcraes]

Eastern Plains has a bunch, if there were enough rain to develop some standing water features. Doubt there are any this year.

[rocktot]

Longmont has them, so does Lafayette. Why the hell would you want to 'hunt' them is beyond me. I don't think you would like the taste, and there is probably little meat. Go crawdad hunting instead. Mmmmmm

[battle_sight_zero]

I posted a thread last year with a pic of snapping turtle I ran into in the Chatfield ponds. Lots of them in there. Huge and will eat your fish off of a stringer if they find it. Can't post the thread since I am on my cell.

[battle_sight_zero]

Here you go. http://www.ar-15.co/forums/showthrea...light=snapping

[Badger]

Turtles taste great. Haven't seen an abundance of them here in CO, but have seen a few.







Badger

[J]

Did it once with a buddy. We waited for them to come out of the water to sun bathe. Then pop em with a .22LR.

[Delvehound]

I saw several small snappers at a pond this morning, out here in aurora. They were about 6" diameter, and skiddish as all get out, and I got skunked at quincy res today... I'm about to go shootin' in a bit. I know I can hit paper lol. Happy Independence Day! Back to the topic, if I do see a big snapper somewhere, I'm going to try to get one. Just to see what it's like, now I'm really curious.