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Snapping Turtle PART 2 The second day David showed up and we had to take weed wackers and cut a wide path to the ponds to be able to get a cart to the ponds to haul the turtles we caught if any. The old man worked on fixing the old cart as It had not been used in over 5 years. The following day it was time to check the lines. The 3 of us went down to the first line and there was no turtle so we went to the second line and it was pulled tight and had a turtle on it. It took Dave and I to pull the turtle to the bank and it had a shell the size of a dinner plate. Once we got it on the bank the old man produced a club about the size of a police blackjack and told us to pull the head out so he can see it's nose. 1 smack on the tip of it's nose and the turtle was out cold. He said it was better to show you how to knock one out than to try and explain it. We ended the day with 3 turtles, all about the same size. We took them and put them in the pen. Within about an hour they were all awake again. The old man called a few of his old customers and told them he had turtles and by the weekend we had 11 turtles and 2 of them almost as big as a #8 washtub. Word spread fast around the small town and soon people we getting on a waiting list the 2 big turtles sold for 12 bucks and the rest all sold for $8.00. We caught and sold turtles till everything Iced over.

Sorry but don't know of anyone that ate it not knowing what it was but I am sure it has happened many times.

Back when I was a kid that loved to hunt and fish I was always looking for away to make a buck for ammo and fishing tackle and we had an older gentleman that lived next store to us and he had a pen built off one of his storage buildings bur nothing was in it. Being nosey, I asked him what the pen was for and he said snapping turtles. He said he use to catch them in the swamp ponds behind our houses but he had to quit doing it as his age got the best of him. He would sell them to people that would come out of the city and buy them. I asked him if he would show me how to do it and he said he would think about it. His concern was my age I was only 12. He finally showed me how to make the lines with steel leaders, treble hooks and 200 pound nylon thread. He said the farmer down the road supplied him with chicken guts from when he cleans chickens so I went as spoke to the farmer and he said he would give me some. The next day the old man and I spent making turtle lines and the next day I went and got the bait. We baited 5 lines and the old man and I went and put out the lines. To Be Continued!!!!!!

According to the folks that have eaten it some say it's a delicacy . I have never eaten it but I sure made a few bucks off of them while growing up.

Well I have not convinced him yet that the tree is going to fall on one of our houses so I guess my request for help was premature but I did write down the information for the man in Lebanon. When the time comes he will get the call. Thanks for the help folks!!

We already have one of those living here and he said ain't no way he will tackle a tree with a trunk as big as an old VW beetle

Thanks for the offer Scotty but my son in law is picking me up a new one tonight. He will have to program it into our WiFi when he installs it.

How many folks here have eaten snapping turtle?

YEP!! It was a nickel and a dime and Dave and I split the funds and both of us bought ammo to hunt with. Back then a box of 4.10 was $1.89 and a box of 20 gauge was $2.09 and a box of 22 lr was 89 cents. We saved up all summer between cutting lawns and hunting bottles we could normally afford enough ammo to hunt all season long.

I don't know if they paid for deposits if you returned them to a store in the 70's but they did in the 60's and Dave and I would go looing on the sides of roads to find them and turn them in for the deposit. Ammo funds....LOL

Back when I was a kid about 10 years old a buddy and I new an older man that let us hunt on his land. He was single as his wife had passed. One day he asked Dave and I if we could help him move some stuff and he would pay us. We needed some money for ammo so we said ok. We were shocked when he opened the double doors to his garage. All we saw was wooden cases of those small returnable coca cola soft drinks. He ask us if we would stack all of them 4 high on that side of the garage. Dave was a foot taller than I was so he had to do most of the heavy lifting but with taking breaks we finally got them all moved. 65 cases of 24 bottles to a case moved. He needed to move them because he had a truck bringing him more. After he paid us and thanked us we left and on our way to town for ammo about a mile from the old mans house a coca cola truck passed us going to his house. We never did find out what he was doing with it and to be honest we didn't want to know.

Had a lightning strike that hit so close it shook my whole house. I looked outside a few minutes after it to see if it hit one of the big trees around the house. I didn't see anything that stood out but I found out this morning that it struck a power pole beside the house that my former cable company used to use before we went to WiFi on everything in the house. The guy that installed all the WiFi in the house forgot to disconnect my TV in my living room and even though it was not turned on it fried the TV. When I tried to turn it on this morning it would not work. I got to checking it and found that he left the cable lead attached to it even though we don't have cable any longer. The TV in the bedroom has a cable line hanging about it but it was not attached so that TV still works. I guess I will get a new one for the living room this weekend.

I grew up in a town of 5500 people and in that town we had 3 Catholic schools 1 public grade school from 1st grade - 8th grade and 1 public high school.. All the Catholic schools ended at 8th grade and everyone attended the High School. In all my years of attending school if there was a fight between high school students they would be sent to the Dean of students and if they could not work out their issue they were taken to the Gym and both boys were fitted with boxing gloves that weighed 1 pound each and they were told to go at it. There was seldom a winner. Those 1 pound gloves wore both guys down pretty quick and they would both just agree to quit and most times walked away friends. To my knowledge there was never a gun found in the school. it was always a fist fight. MY friend that still lives up there told me a while back that now ever so often without notice the police will show up at the school with John Doe search warrants and search students cars for drugs and firearms acting on a tip but seldom is anything found. That never took place when I was a student there.

We have a large tree here that is becoming a concern and my Son- in-Law is considering having it cut down. I told him I would ask if we had any folks here that does that type of work.

Fact is a murderer will find a way to get their hands on a weapon to kill people. I read the article but never found the part about the good guy with the gun.

That is because for the most part schools are gun free zones and a soft target. Also along with all the armed Guards at all the Government locations mentioned most Congress and the Presidents have Secret service everywhere they travel to.

I agree that most teachers don't want to pack a gun to teach. As far as that bill for using veterans. You are expecting miracles if you think the Congress is going to move on any bill in a week.

I know that and the problem is there are about 7 Conservatives that many times will side with the Democrats on some issues and if 4 join the Democrats they can get a majority. Then the only chance would be a Filibuster which Rand Paul is preparing if it is needed but it will be a tough battle.

With all due respect to every one on TGO that have school age children. Can you honestly put a price on how much money should be provided to their school to protect them while they are in school? I don't really care if a child can afford to attend a private school or is in a public they both deserve the same amount of protection which right now many don't get. We have a Governor that is working on fixing that and I am behind him 100%. If I was 10 or 15 years younger and in better health I would volunteer too be an SRO person at the Gordonsville school that is 7 miles from my home. As far as the action the Metro officers a week ago. I am very glad they were there and did the job needed. I agree with David that waiting on a public security team would have been a grave mistake. It would have been a ULVADE all over again.....JMHO on last statement.

The locked doors means nothing. The doors at the school were all locked last Monday and the shooter shot her way through them.

Well considering the shape the roads are in the gas tax is not working very well.

I read an article today from NAGR that said Biden is looking at signing the US on to the treaty! It has to be approved by the Congress but it is going to be a tough race in the Senate as right now it's 51-49. They said that a Filibuster might not even be able to stop Biden. It will have to be the Congress.

What will pay the road repairs when all the electric Vehicles take over and the gas vehicles are almost non-existant?

They are my rights also. I grew up in Illinois to age 16 when my Mother and Father became the proud owner of my Grandfathers Ranch/Farm of a little over 2000 acres. He was getting to old to run it so he gave it to his only child which was my mother. Now back to Illinois, I grew up hunting and fishing from about age 8 and had a buddy that I hunted with till we moved and I got my first 4.10 shotgun at age 9 and I rabbit hunted and squirrel hunted and we ate everything I killed. My mother was a great cook. At age 11 I got a 20 gauge pump gun and began bird hunting along with everything else. We lived in a small town out in the farm country and all the farmers let us hunt their land. We live in the country but would walk to town and eat lunch in a meat and 3 my mother cooked at and buy ammo while there and most times we took our guns with us and hunt on the way back home and nothing was ever thought about it. The police would wave at us if they saw us. I still keep in touch with my hunting buddy I hunted and fished with and He said if he knew what was going to happen to Illinois He would have moved to Kentucky long ago as he has family there. I was shocked when I heard he had sold his collection of Winchester Model 12 Pumps. He had 24 of them in every grade and gauge. He quit shooting trap and skeet and hunting 12 years ago. He has his Stevens 311 double for house protection and a Ruger Black Hawk too. He said it got impossible to find a place to hunt so he just quit. When I first moved down here I would have a rifle and shotgun in the back window of my pickup at school. Would go hunting after school. I would never try that today. So like I said, TFA is fighting for my rights also. I will shut up now!!!

I was laying in bed last night watching TV and the news came on and they talked about the storms for a few minutes and then switched to the shooting and showed pictures of the children and adults and began reporting the same stuff they reported all last week. My first thought was how do the victims families begin to heal when the news is still showing their pictures and keep talking about it? We are talking about school security which is a subject that needs to be addressed and not posting about the Victims. It is my opinion that the news needs to move off that subject.