Cajun's Pride

TWO GUNS · Jul 2, 2009

Sit backand see whatthem cajun boys like to doin the summer time !!!!

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Deerlope · Jul 2, 2009

That is a very interesting video. Good find Jamie, Will they die if not relocated to wetter gorund?

TWO GUNS · Jul 2, 2009

They will not die naturally if not reloacted,they are just easier to find, andpoachers kill them for their shells, largeskulls, etc .... 

Just dig deeper into the earth 

The alligator snapping turtle is a survivor for sure. They are known to live over 150-200 years in the wild >>> 

Strong !!!! They have the second strongest bite strength of any animal in the world. And they are on the threatend species list. So they are very well protected by law ~~~~

The first BB gun, a Red Ryder, was a total loss to a alligator snapper !!!! After being told to leave the turtle alone, just had to put the barrel of the rifle in his mouth ~~~ ( BIG MISTAKE ). That massive monster bit down and mashed my barrel to a nothing ~~~~ I will never forget it either .... Their tongues in like a worm, used in baiting fish , when fish comes bye, see worm, go get worm, turtle clamps down, has suppper >>>>



.......... jamie

bczoom · Jul 2, 2009

I'm not into foreign films much but that was pretty interesting.

What language was that?

TWO GUNS · Jul 2, 2009

That's Louisiana Cajun my friend !!!!

THAT WAS A BONAFIDE COONASS SPEAKING

TWO GUNS · Jul 2, 2009

And may I add .... there has beenalligator snappers found withmusket balls in them from back in the civil war era. I've seenone in the late '70's and one in themid 80's >>> 

Can remember mygrandfather saying back when he was a young man, it was not anything to find aturtle with a musket roundjammed into his shell ..... He said soldiers from both sides used the turtles for a source of food ~~~~~

I've never seen a arrowhead in one, but heard of some folks years ago talking about it ..... in fact, at one time ( maybe10 plus years ago)there was a article in the Outdoor Life or Field& Stream magazine, about the finding of civil war bullets and arrowheads being found in these turtles .... it would be a interesting project to do some research on this subject ~~~~

While we are on the subject, a man can loose a hand right quickly with these animals. I know for a fact, a man who liked to lost his arm to a big snapper, I personally cut the head off of a turtle just so I could pry his jaws open to release him. Like to have lost his a arm messing with this monster. If I recall, that turtle weight was around 120 plus pounds ....

It's nothing to catch a 180 -200 lb. turtle down the Mississippi and Old Rivers >>>> Expecially now it dry as a powder keg just about everywhere one goes . Find a watering hole, your will find some massive turtles dug in good .....



~~~~~ two guns

Onfoot · Jul 2, 2009

I'm with BCZoom--took a while to get used to the coonass dialect! But my goodness, what fascinating animals. I confess to never having heard of them. Thanks for enhancing my education, Two Guns!

RUSTY ANVIL · Jul 2, 2009

Two Guns,

Thanks for the great video......I thought we had some big snappers here in Pa. But those snappers are monsters............

Rusty Anvil,

Peanut · Jul 2, 2009

yea man dat boy talk like he from around heya!!

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

been doing some researce on the alligator snapper >>>

This in not about the alligator snapper, but thought ya'll would enjoy reading.Please read the whole article, for the amazing partis naturally, in the end ~~~~~ and yes, it about a old turtle !!!!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13115101/ 



............ jamie

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

this issomething else I found, concerning old animals withprojectiles in theirbodys >>>this is copied from a site I ran across >>>>




Bowhead whale taken this year held century-old harpoon head

BARROW: Projectile sawed from carcass linked to late-1800s hunt.

By ERIN CONROY
The Associated Press

Published: June 13, 2007
Last Modified: July 5, 2007 at 10:49 AM

BOSTON -- A 50-ton bowhead whale harvested off the Alaska coast near Barrow last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt -- more than a century ago.

Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3½-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years.

"No other finding has been this precise," said John Bockstoce, an adjunct curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Calculating a whale's age can be difficult, usually gauged by amino acids in the eye lenses. It's rare to find one that has lived more than a century, but some experts say the oldest were close to 200 years old.

The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time, Bockstoce said.

It was probably shot at the whale from a heavy shoulder gun in about 1890. The small metal cylinder was filled with explosives fitted with a time-delay fuse so it would explode seconds after it was shot into the whale. The bomb lance was meant to kill the whale immediately and prevent it from escaping.

The device exploded and probably injured the whale, Bockstoce said.

"It probably hurt the whale, or annoyed him, but it hit him in a non-lethal place," he said. "He couldn't have been that bothered if he lived for another 100 years."

The whale harkens back to a far different era. If 130 years old, it would have been born in 1877, the year Rutherford B. Hayes was sworn in as president, when federal reconstruction-era troops withdrew from the South and when Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention, the phonograph.

The 49-foot male whale died when it was shot with a similar projectile last month, and the older device was found buried beneath its blubber as hunters carved it with a chain saw for harvesting.

"It's unusual to find old things like that in whales, and I knew immediately that it was quite old by its shape," said Craig George, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, who was called down to the site soon after the fragment was found.

The revelation led George to return to a similar piece found in a whale hunted near St. Lawrence Island in 1980, which he sent to Bockstoce to compare.

"We didn't make anything of it at the time, and no one had any idea about their life span, or speculated that a bowhead could be that old," George said.

Bockstoce said he was impressed by notches carved into the head of the arrow used in the 19th century hunt, a traditional way for Alaska Native hunters to indicate ownership of the whale.

Whaling has always been a prominent source of food for Alaska Eskimos, and is monitored by the International Whaling Commission. A hunting quota for Alaska Eskimo whalers was recently renewed, allowing 255 whales to be harvested by 10 villages over five years.

After it is analyzed, the fragment will be displayed at the Inupiat Heritage Center in Barrow

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

link will bring you to page 45 automaticly, states of a 50 cal. bullet being found in a slaughteredsnapping turtle etc ..



http://books.google.com/books?id=rBbuYFjiTNMC&pg=PA45&lpg=PA45&dq=musket+balls+in+turtle&source=bl&ots=L16VHUoMlN&sig=LJ3kSxMVFX0Qhb4Ci3jbIHez6jo&hl=en&ei=m7NOSp_pGoqJtgfI_dmzBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

xxxxxxx 

just about as wide as the old boat >>>>>>>>

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

here's another pic of themsouthern boys playing >>>

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

same turtle,different pic ....

Peanut · Jul 3, 2009

they are the reason i swim with shorts on in the bayous. you boys up north can get away with jumpin in the creek and skinny dippin down here you jump in you just might not jump out with all your hardware.

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

small onein the back of a old truck >>>

Onfoot · Jul 3, 2009

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they are the reason i swim with shorts on in the bayous. you boys up north can get away with jumpin in the creek and skinny dippin down here you jump in you just might not jump out with all your hardware.
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Understand keeping your shorts on, but I think I would be worried about my toes and fingers, too! (Indeed, my feet and hands, by the look of those jaws!)

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

This is something else I foundvery interesting >>>



Alligator snapping turtles have long been harvested by
humans as a food source in the southeastern United States.
However, the size of this industry increased dramatically in
the late 1960’s through the 1970’s. During this period
Campbell’s Soup Company produced frozen turtle soup, with

meat largely obtained from 

Chelydra and Macrochelys










(Pritchard 1989). Numerous New Orleans seafood
restaurants and dealers also purchased large numbers of


Macrochelys 




from trappers in southeastern states.



Orleans is the center of this trade, especially for turtle soup
and Cajun restaurants. As additional examples, the mail-order
outdoor retailer Cabela’s Inc. offers turtle meat in its catalogs,
and mail-order frozen turtle meat is available on-line from a

number of New Orleans seafood houses.

TWO GUNS · Jul 3, 2009

Turtle Soup Ad >>

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