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was a smart move to get out of the water if it was a small pond because they don't like things in their area. They are very territorial. Now I guess folks are wondering if I have ever ate Turtle and the answer is many times and no, they don't taste like chicken...LOL. I think I mentioned that my mother was a great cook and she could cook about anything. I asked her if she would cook turtle if I cleaned one and she said yes and the old man stood beside me and directed my work. I took a stick and it mad enough to grab it and when he did I was able to pull his head and neck out of his shell and the old man whacked his head off with a hatchet in one swing. The old man (Gulley) had sharpened 3 knives for the job and had a Hole Saw for cutting the bottom part of the turtles shell loose from the top part after I cut the legs free from the bottom. I was surprised at all the meat that was attached to the legs, similar to the Thighs of a chicken. Once we cleans out the guts and got done carving all the meat out of the turtle I guess we had maybe 10+ pounds of boneless light pink meat. I took it in the house and gave it to my Mother and from then on it was up to her. My mother was not much of a soup cook. She was feeding 4 growing boys and my father so she would prepare full meals at supper. I guess I might have been one of the first people to eat Turtle Nuggets but we had Turtle Nuggets, fried potatoes& onions, turnip greens, Fried Corn and fried corn cakes. There was enough meat left for her to put in freezer. I took Gully a plate for supper over to his cottage. He was also surprised to see the Nuggets but the next morning he showed up at our back door with the clean plate and thanked us. After that it became a regular program and he got a plate every night at his door. He was 80 years old and Mom always made to much food so we fed him too.

Last time I bought anything new was about 3 years ago I bought a new pillow top mattress and box spring and I was at someplace a buddy took me to. Anyway when I settled on a set the guy gave me a price of $299.00 + Tax. I pull two 100.00 bills and a 50.00 dollar out of my pocket and said that was all I had to spend and he said I will be right back. When he got back he said if I would pay the tax we had a deal and I looked at my buddy and said lets go. Before I got to the front door I got them for $250.00 out the door. The name of the company is American Freight and they are in Goodlettsville.

So this 28 year old gal-boy has stumped some of the most brilliant minds in law enforcement. Maybe if they would release her ramblings she wrote to the American people someone might be able to see something that the brilliant minds cannot and put some logic to her ramblings. There is a chance that the smart people might be using technical logic that is hiding what they are looking for.....JMHO

Glad I could help!!!

That is where a strong stick comes in handy. You make the turtle mad enough to grab the stick and once he does you pull on it and as long as you keep pressure on the stick he can't let go and you could drag him out of the rocks. There jaws lock when you apply pressure and they can't let go until they can relax.

Right!!! They are rare to find one in Tennessee and even more rare in Illinois where we were catching them. We only caught 2 in 3 years of fishing for them and we released both of them back into the bigger swamp lake that we didn't fish in.

There's an old saying, If a snapping turtle bites you it won't let go until it thunders!!!!

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.