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No..It's the turtle that's the problem...What do you have ?

 

It is sort of a generic turtle, I think; the shell is more like green leather than hard, so I do not know if it is ripe yet?

 

You do know that some have musk glands...

 

Darn Bill, is that right or are you jerking his chain? I haven't eaten softshell before but some of Seawolf's buddies caught a little one while we were camping and I think they ate it?

 

With your kind assistance, what I am coming to understand is how fruitless my previous efforts in preparedness were. I had a fairly booming practice that afforded me sufficient funds to acquire many, many firearms, vehicles, ammo that would last me a good long while, MRE's, and disk after disk of pdf that could teach me what I needed to know. Now I find myself stripped of almost every resource I had built up sans the pdf's. But even with those, I just kept downloading and downloading files, never taking the time to do more than scan them, certainly not study them or even practice what they would teach. So now, I'm ready to cook the turtle and the crayfish together and possible poison myself, all because I equated preparedness to possessions instead of knowledge. I'm sure I will have many more hungry nights ahead of me before I get the hang of this bug-out thing. I'm finding it less than practical to have to find the right pdf on the disk that might hold a needed answer at any given moment. The good news is that I am a quick study. Now that I have my basic shelter constructed, I can spend a small part of every day studying. That, combined with the guidance of my newly found survival monkey friends, might see me through some of the pitfalls in my path.

I am grateful to all of you for what Blanche Dubois called the "kindness of strangers" and most certainly, for the companionship. I never realized how much I depended on simple dialog with human beings.

I thought I had all my bases covered. Little did I know there were so many bases hidden under the sand.

 

Common Musk Turtle - North Carolina

 

A stink turtle is not called that without reason,You perhap's call that a mud turtle in your neck of the wood's.? Softshell's are good though...Alligator,Snapper's...Good to go...

 

Sounds like a soft-shell turtle, they don't ripen, just boil it and eat everything that isn't bone or poop.

 

That's one that's a no-go...

 

Mr Seacowboys, this may seem like a stupid question but how do you distinguish turtle poop? I caught a fish and when I gutted it, there was a lot of green slimy, semi-solid stuff in it's gut. I wasn't sure if this was edible or not so I threw out the whole fish. Do turtles have similar digestive systems to fish? And how do I tell what's safe to consume?

 

Some of the better meat is the jaw muscle...

 

Best bet is just to throw out all the stuff on the inside and just eat the flesh. You can eat it all if you are actually starving but I would really have to be hungry to eat fish innards.

 

Not for the faint of heart..Cleaning a snapper..

Trapping Snapping Turtles - Part Three - Cleaning Turtles- How to Clean a Turtle - YouTube

 

You funny guy Frank Lee. I have autograph numchuck from Bruce Lee.
He no joke.

 

Frank Lee ,you got a cousin named Chello !!!! LMAO
Can hardly wait to see these two together ,it should create a novel !!!

 

Seriously? You guys haven't figured out that this is F. Ticious' (fictitious) attempt at ridiculing preppers? Whew.