17HMR vs Turtles (warning graphic)

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Good Lord, those are some huge turtles.

12-34hom: maybe you should read some of the posts on this thread. If someone shoots rats in a barnyard would you insult them? Pest control.
 
I see diggler's point. There are some videos it is better not to post on the internet, regardless of whether they are useful and needed activities. I used to work in a lab which was seriously exploring the neurological basis of schizophrenia, parkinsons disease and lots of really nasty diseases and I don't think it would have been helpful for the PETAphiles to have gotten ahold of a video of the guys who quickly and humanely euthanizing the rats with a rat guillotine then blenderizing their brains in iced saline.:scrutiny:

H&H I don't care what PETAphiles think either but I do care about the folks who are in the middle and prone to persuasion one way or the other. I know you don't care what I care but I don't care that you don't care and I don't care if you don't care that I don't care that you don't care so there! :neener:
 
Turtles like mellon patches really well too. Had a nice crop of them coming in one year when I lived in NE Oklahoma, and used to smile when I'd come home from work and see them getting a bit bigger every week. Then, I noticed they didn't look right and went out to investigate. Turtles were eating the back side of them. That started the turtle war of 1985, as my kids call it. Turtles must die!

Years later, a good friend of mine has a ranch in Northeast Texas and the stock tank was chock full of turtles, and I'm not sure there was a fish left in the tank. We used to run up there with our 22LR's and go for the head shots. Talk about sharpening up your rifle skills!

He got a bit miffed at me one time because a turtle swam up along side the dock we built for the tank, and I pulled my Government model-hey, how was I supposed to know how big a splash that semi-wadcutter was going to make:D . We both got pretty wet on that one, and still laugh about it.
 
What are you guys referring to as a "tank"? Are you just talking about a pond?
 
Chef, you might want to mix a little coherence into your posts. You might find that you like it. Personally i fail to see how turtle popping is any different that prarie dog/coyote/woodchuck etc shooting. They are varmints and a pest i see nothing wrong with shooting them. What do you think varmint hunting means?
 
Hey ChefJeff1,

I've read a couple of your posts on several different threads. Dude, are you an animal rights activist? Or do you just think your better than everbody else?

Meekandmild,

I'm glad we got that straightened out..............:rolleyes:
 
That video makes me sick.
















...not because of the wanton turtle slaughter, but because the camera operator seriously needs to invest in a tripod. :neener: Talk about jerky.
 
I grew up on a 40 acre POND here in Alabama. Our Turtle Population got so bad, we had a couple of Gators put in to control them. That didn't work as well as we thought it would so we purchased two turtle traps. These traps would catch between 50-100 turtles at a time.
There for awhile we would just throw the traps up on the shore and leave the traps there until they starved to death......kinda inhumane if you ask me but it was my uncle that was doing it.
Then I found a place in South Florida who would buy turtles from you for scientific research......Thats when I started making money......lol....

P.S. After the gators were in the pond for approx. 10 years, the Game Warden came out and removed them via a Mini-14......That upset me more than anything.......

GhostCat
 
P.S. After the gators were in the pond for approx. 10 years, the Game Warden came out and removed them via a Mini-14......That upset me more than anything.......
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You should have got that steve 'crocodile hunter' guy to come out and wrassle 'em out a there
:D :D
 
Balog, the .17 is awesome. I once shot a hole through an old steel tank (somehow 'pond' doesn't sound right) from a water heater with mine.

But windage is a problem. I missed a (bird and field mouse eating, rabies carrying, dangerous to children) feral cat last week at about 50 yards in gusty conditions. I would have missed a snapping turtle too, but they don't come up in the yard. :(

H&H You'd better believe it! :D
 
Yep partial to Model 70's in '06 myself.

Seems to work quite well on any nuisance I've encountered...rats, turtles, groundhogs, blackbirds, moles,skunks rabid racoons, stills a flopping 40# catfish right nice...old outhouses...old Buicks...not much one can't do with $700 and a aught -six. :D

Umm no, never been approached by a PETA rep to join...wonder why? :p
 
Balog, my perception of .17 recoil is more than an air rifle but less than a .22 revolver shooting shorts. According to the Varmint Al page that St Johns linked up the .17 has about 1/17 the recoil of a .223, all of 1/4 foot pound in a six pound rifle.

Varmint Als windage table only goes to 10 mph but even at 5 and 10 mph, which are nice soft breezes, there is a lot of deflection. Considering the gust factor, fifteen inches at 200 yards is irrecoverable IMHO.
 
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