Turtles

[chuckw2]

Any of you guys shoot turtles....



Chuck

 

[harvey13118]

Hate to admit to a water shot. But when a snapper took a baby duck and my wife was watching them play that was it for her. The gloves came off.

I shoot them from the upper deck of the house. My 22lr zeroed for exact range and all head shots. I have used a .30 2 times when I had missed with 22 and had spent hours waiting.

The water shots are a high angle shot from the deck.

 

[chuckw2]

Harvey,
I also shoot them from the upper deck of my house. You can't kill them off. They kill the swans and ducks. Several years ago I put an automatic fish feeder on the pond for the bream, the turtle problem has continued to get worse since then.

I shoot them with a .22, sometimes you can kill 20 or 25 a day,
This is on a small 5 ac. pond.

Chuck

 

[mikeinct]

WAY COOL !!! we are still big kids !!! I love this kind of talk...mike in ct

 

[SnakeEye]

I've used a 22lr with great success. Then I tried em with my 17 hmr.....AWSOME! Pop em in the head and they either sink or do the twirl! Never saw a ricochet with the 17 hmr.

Varmints For Fun

 

[chuckw2]

Last winter, a strong wind blew a big dead pine into my bream pond.. Half of the tree is in the water half is out.

Sometimes there will be 15 turtles on this pine.

From my upper deck, I have to keep low when I have a rifle in my hand, they know what's coming. I really have to sneak out there. If I go out there with only a beer in my hand, they don't pay any attention to me. They are afraid if the sight of a rifle for some reason.


In South Georgia, the turtles will ruin a small pond.
Plus I love to hear sound, that Smack, then the oil slick.

Chuck

Chuck

 

[vlcakc]

Oh yeah! We shoot 'em with anything we happen to have handy. Mostly .22 lr, but have also used .22 WMR, .223, .22/250, 6 MM Rem, 7 T/CU, 7MM Rem Mag, .357 Mag, .357 Max, and .44 Mag over the past 30 years or so. Just received three bricks of .17 HMR for my two buddies and myself, mainly for turtles.,They like to shoot a lot.) We have several large farm ponds and a half mile section of a small river available, so no problem finding targets. Not unusual to shoot up a brick or more of .22's apiece on these outings. Great practice! Have fun!

 

[chuckw2]

There is nothing like the sound of a 22 RF piercing a big turtles shell that is in the water.....THAA-WOOOCK and then the big oil slick forms in the water.. just like a German submarine.

 

[Travelor]

If you shoot them with a 30-06 with 110 gr. hollow points, the words RED MIST takes on a new meaning.

Before PC took over in Arkansas, a friend and I would spend the whole summer shooting snakes and turtles along the Arkansas river and in local sloughs and lakes. Some of the best shooting times I can remember. We even used to take lawn chairs and an ice chest to the river bank and would spend the day shooting from bluffs overlooking the water and brush piles.

Sadly now that PC has taken over, we cannot pass this sport on to our kids or continue to enjoy it ourselves............

 

[Buck]

I have a 5-7 acre pond that has a lot of limbs and stumps for the turtles to crawl up on. I shoot them from my front deck. I shoot them with a 22 hornet, .223, and a 22-250. Most of the shots are 125-175 yards. The .223, and 22-250 can really make the turtles flip. I shot one with the .223 and pealed the top hull off the turtle. The hull landed on the bank.
I usually don’t get to shoot more than 2-3 a day.

Buck,

 

[chuckw2]

Buck,
I can shoot 4 or 5 the go back in for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes they are right back out there. I use a 17HMR,.22RF and a .223. They just keep coming back.

They must be very prolific because my bream pond is small.


I am going to go on a Turtle Safari on the opening day of squirrel season in Ga.

Shoot squirrels till 10:00 am... turtles 10:30 to 6:00 Squirrels 6:00 to dark....

 

[Buck]

I usually can get one every 15-30 minutes in early spring, but they get thinned out after a few weeks. I’ve got a large snapping turtle I’ve been trying to get, but by the time I can get all my junk set up he’s gone.

Buck,

 

[bmx]

Before the city "incorperated" the ranch we used to shoot a bunch of turtles but now with all the new housing being built around here the law shows up every time some one shoots a fire cracker off. Damn I hate these "libruls" Too bad we can't hunt them.

Any way ....a old guy came over a built me a turtle trap that really works. Take a,or several) 55 gallon barrels without tops and sink them in about 2 to 3 feet of water with big rocks in the bottom to hold the barrels down. Build a ramp by laying a 2 x 12 or good sized limb on the top and let it overhang about 1/2 way of the opening of the barrel...about 20 to 30 degree angle is good. Cut some holes just below the rim of the barrel to tie the 2 x 12, limb to the barrel so it won't get knocked off.

Take some dead chickens, road kill or whatever,liberuls) and fill the barrel about 1/2 full and let it ferment. The turtles will crawl up the ramp and get to the end and most of the time fall into the barrel and refresh the meat supply. After a while these gets to stinking to high hell but the turtle population will take a severe hit. We have poured lime into the barrels when they get too bad.

Mine are on the very far end of my lake and the wing blows the stink onto the local libruls home. he he he

 

[chuckw2]

Great idea BMX...I think that I will give it a try.


Still like to shoot them, love the sound...


Chuck

 

[chuckw2]

A buddy of mine that I shoot 1000 yard matches with in Tennessee called me tonight to tell me a friend of his really has a turtle problem.
This is a local cattle rancher that has a pond that his cows like to walk out into the middle of to cool off and drink water. The snapping turtles are biting their tits off and biting their legs. He and his son stayed out there for a couple of hours and did not see a single one.

They have ruined a couple of cows already.

They drove a front end loader into the pond and snappers started coming out of the mud.


He needs some traps bad!!!!


Chuck