Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: osage outlaw on September 24, 2017, 08:21:05 pm
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I found this guy while trimming trails Friday. We have a lot of turtles on our property. This is by far the darkest I have ever seen. It was mostly black. I moved him to the other side of the trail so he could be on his way.
(https://i.imgur.com/A91VZOA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jn6CMoO.jpg)
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Shiny little guy. Any idea what species?
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I would be a little worried that the "dark one" could be a spy.
Stealing your secrets of bow making and such. >:D >:D
Zuma
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That would be one real slow bow! :BB (SH) :NN
Hawkdancer
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Used to see those little guys coon hunting in southern Illinois.The locals called them a terrapin species of box turtle.They would have a flipper hinge flap that would close on the bottom of their shell when they tucked heir head into their shell.
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A box turtle, they are cool. When I was a kid we would get them and make roads in the sand box and try to keep them on the roads. But they would always climb over the "guardrails" . I read they spend their entire life living in a 300 yard area. They live to be 50 to 100 years old, that's a long time to spend in one area. I guess that's a big area to a turtle.
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We always called them box turtles. When my sister was little she collected them. My Dad built an enclosure in the yard for them. Everyone would pick them up on the road and bring to her. I don't know how many she had but it was a lot. We let them loose on our property eventually. Probably why we have so many around 35 years later. She had a female lay eggs once. She kept one of the babies that hatched and named it Fred. We had him for years until I accidentally lost him one day when I was little. She was mad at me big time. She still brings that up about once a year.
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That's a Spotted Turtle, cool buggers.
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I don't think its a spotted turtle. It's a box turtle
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Nope, spotted turtle. Google it Hoosier.
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I see them once in a while on my place, move a lot of them off the road, I think during there mating season. Usually in the spring when things start to warm up. Always see some when I am bush hogging,
I try to miss them when I see them in time.
Pappy
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I'm goin with Clint on this one. Box turtle.
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Don't make me take the time to download pics guys.....come on! there isn't a box species that looks anything like it, however the spotted turtle looks exactly the same. I think you guys fall into that "ironwood" category. If its hard wood and you don't know what it is, its ironwood. :)
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Eastern box turtle Terrapene carolina carolina (male)
DBar
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Eastern box turtle Terrapene carolina carolina (male)
DBar
What the Dancing Bear said. It's a boy box turtle. Not a spotted turtle Pearly! :OK
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Okay, this is killing me. Judging by the antics going on here I'm guessing "Pearl Drums" and "Pearly" are one in the same. Am I going nuts or are there two of you guys!?
Oh yeah, and I say box turtle. The markings on this one don't look circular enough to be a spotted turtle.
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Okay, this is killing me. Judging by the antics going on here I'm guessing "Pearl Drums" and "Pearly" are one in the same. Am I going nuts or are there two of you guys!?
Oh yeah, and I say box turtle. The markings on this one don't look circular enough to be a spotted turtle.
They are one and the same. Thank goodness. I'm not sure if we could handle 2 of them ;D
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...and how about Pearlie? ???
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Box turtle , we call them.
Pappy
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Stuff it chris! U been outvoted!! (-P
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....and that's that!!!!!Another name switcheroo!!!
I might do that too sometime too.I hav'nt beaded in quite a while.
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Out-voted by a buncha' southern rednecks that don't know amphibians!
You know I love ya'll
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Yep, Ed you are right. Pearly and I changed our screen names at roughly the same time. I just wanted something that resembled me better. ;)
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That's very true for me here too Scott.My FG shooting buddies here call me BowEd all the time.I guess because most don't make there own bows really.
Seems it changes the username on all past posts then too.
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I've noticed it helps if you add your old screen name to the bottom tag line so people can see who it is. Couple months and you can remove it and everyone will have adjusted.
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I've noticed it helps if you add your old screen name to the bottom tag line so people can see who it is. Couple months and you can remove it and everyone will have adjusted.
I ain't giving up my anonymity by changing my screen name to my real name!
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OK John. ;)
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Wayne Halverson
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You gotta have a name like John Wayne if you're gonna tangle with wild eagles. )P(
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I'm just guessing on the "W"
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I'm just guessing on the "W"
William.
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Don't forget Pearlie Boy. (-S
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Got at least 6 John William's in the family, gets confusing as to whose whom! I'll stay with Hawkdancer, it was hung on me by an Ojibwa scout leader over 30 years ago! Change is constant - progress is optional. >:D (-P.
Jerry
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Out-voted by a buncha' southern rednecks that don't know amphibians!
You know I love ya'll
We love you too.... Actually, the Eastern Box Turtle is a reptile. Amphibians are frogs, salamanders, etc.... Just sayin... ;D
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Yep southern red neck, that would for sure describe me. ;) :) :) Turtles to me are a lot like snakes, Turtles /Box/soft shell or snapping, Snakes / poisonous or nonpoisonous. ;) I like keeping it simple ya know. ;) :)
Pappy
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Turtle soup is good!, don't have much use for snakes, as long as they leave me alone. Never had to acquire a taste for them! >:D -C-! Frog legs are good!, but I prefer venison.
Hawkdancer
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Dark Turtle... that's got a nice ring to it. Sounds like it could be a band. Play any instruments OO?
I can just hear the introduction now...
"On the main stage tonight, comin' together from all around the country to entertain ya'll at Mojam 2018, with the Clintster on lead guitar, Pappy on bass, H Rhodes on the Fender Rhodes electric piano, Mullet on lead vocals and none other than Chris 'Pearl Drums' Koenigsknecht on drums... DARK TURTLE!!!!
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I play the one string guitar decent ;D I dropped a tune with it this evening ;)
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We call them terrepans or proper name box turtles. We have a lot of then to in southern Ky. Me and my daughter use to use a paint marker dates we would see them hoping we would see it again but never do did. We probably put dates on 50 or so
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Upstate,
Great name, but " Ya gotta have a fiddle in the band"!! "Little Fiddle woman" (Jacie Mc Connell) has fiddle, will travel - for right price! Also has bow, muzzleloader, and center fire, will hunt! Do have to get her a legal weight self or trad bow! Right now, she just has a "wheelie" in pink camo! This group might need a good seannachie, too(me)! Way off the real turtle line, but we're having fun!
Hawkdancer (Jerry Mc Connell)