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<blockquote data-quote="Hugnot" data-source="post: 2280434" data-attributes="member: 115658"><p>A long time ago at some church sponsored wild-life talk by some expert, a skeleton of some creature was displayed and a statement was made that this was the most dangerous animal in New England (wrong - great white sharks kill more people & then there are rabid coyotes). Any how the question was asked, can anyone tell me what it is? My little voice piped up, disturbing the silence of the large basement meeting room - "big turtle!" Any how the term "snapper" fits good. Seen some real big ones like 18-20 inches long. While fishing saw one swimming 2 feet down that looked like 2 ft. long. Saw another trapped tight, in round, 2 foot wide excavation - what do do - got garden hose & flooded the little guy out then saw him waddle back to his pond (apex predator there). One of my dad's customers, a retired foot ball guy of major importance, spent lots of money to buy some resort with a pond between his buildings & ocean beach view. His wife got some nice white swans that cruised the muddy waters and the swans went missing one by one. Coyotes were blamed and a fence was built around the pond (seen yotes some how get thru, around, over or under fences 5 feet high). The swans continued to go missing. I volunteered my services and finally got a head shot at this 16 inch turtle (they don't have gills) with my Mossberg .22. Everybody was happy, I was some hero; but then more swans went missing - sort of like <em>Jaws II</em>. Finally, no more swans and the fence was removed. The turtles won. Yes, snappers are varmints but box turtles are nice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hugnot, post: 2280434, member: 115658"] A long time ago at some church sponsored wild-life talk by some expert, a skeleton of some creature was displayed and a statement was made that this was the most dangerous animal in New England (wrong - great white sharks kill more people & then there are rabid coyotes). Any how the question was asked, can anyone tell me what it is? My little voice piped up, disturbing the silence of the large basement meeting room - "big turtle!" Any how the term "snapper" fits good. Seen some real big ones like 18-20 inches long. While fishing saw one swimming 2 feet down that looked like 2 ft. long. Saw another trapped tight, in round, 2 foot wide excavation - what do do - got garden hose & flooded the little guy out then saw him waddle back to his pond (apex predator there). One of my dad's customers, a retired foot ball guy of major importance, spent lots of money to buy some resort with a pond between his buildings & ocean beach view. His wife got some nice white swans that cruised the muddy waters and the swans went missing one by one. Coyotes were blamed and a fence was built around the pond (seen yotes some how get thru, around, over or under fences 5 feet high). The swans continued to go missing. I volunteered my services and finally got a head shot at this 16 inch turtle (they don't have gills) with my Mossberg .22. Everybody was happy, I was some hero; but then more swans went missing - sort of like [I]Jaws II[/I]. Finally, no more swans and the fence was removed. The turtles won. Yes, snappers are varmints but box turtles are nice. [/QUOTE]
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