I realize that it's not really a weapon by I was down by the old swamp yesterday and I spodded some critters I had all but forgotten about. Turtles. Maybe 15 years ago when I was a kid some people dumped their pet tank turtles in the swamp. Freed of their small habitats and the fact that there are no turtle eating preditors around they have being doing pretty good. At one point my friend and I tried to eliminate the little bastards with dynamite but we failed. Over the years they have gotten huge! Their shells are about two feet long by 1.5 feet wide. Some look twice that big but I havn't gotten close to those ones yet. They look like pet store turtles with the red and yellow bands on their eyes only huge. I guess the fact that they have room to stretch out led to them getting so big.

I think they would make a great buckler, now that I'm thinking about it there are probably lots of good uses for them.

Ya no kidding these bastards probably have a wicked bite. I figured I would use my rubber dingie, paddle out into the swamp then use my patented homemade depth charges and a pole with a hook on it. I wonder how to butcher a turtle? What parts do you eat?

And yes a helmet would be the bomb.

a ruel of thumb when dealing with turtles.
once they bite they wil never let go
never
so what you got to do is to bait \a stick with giblets or something, find it, it will snap the stick, then cut off its head and crush it because a separated turtle head will still bite.

then eat it

i think they taste best in a pressure cooker but u decide

i rea  d a book once about a guy a ate turtles and eggs and such
good book

Yeah, that's the basic principle of grenade fishing.  However, I thought that the shockwaves work because they rupture the swim bladders of the fish, and turtles have no swim bladders, so... it might not work.  Be nice to give it a go though.

Yeah, that's a good plan.

well if you dont land the bomb on the turtle it wont blow them up.

Wow...A turtle shell buckler would really shake things up in my fencing class. I've collected average-size turtle shells out in the woods from turtles that have died. They are well-dried and sun-bleached and make great bowls. Pretty hard stuff, too. I wonder how many strikes from a side-sword on the shell's edge it would take to finaly destroy it? ???