Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire A smell so bad I can't think about it w/o gagging just a bit

Where and when was it when it was hit. We saw several turtles Sunday in the AIW behind Oak Island. We also saw lots of large boats going very fast.

Ok, now I know to not pick up an R-Kansas girl!

Got close to a turkey vulture once, the smell was terrible.

They can get bad if they come through the windshield.

If ya accidentally do, put her back down real easy like, dont wanna go crackin' open that crust. LMAO

Gunner

One of my uncles bagged bodies one day in the Phillipines
when he was in WWII. Said it was a smell he will never forget.

Down here we wood hav made some turtle soup. You use enuff garlic and hot saus and you can get passed the smell.

bummer, they are fairly interesting critters. This one is the same in Roger's photo above. He was successfully rescued, after biting a shark bait.

Forty some years ago I was working in a feedlot over in the Heart of the Columbia Basin about three or four times a week we would have a dead cow or steer turn up in the pens and it was my job with helper to go into the pens with a tractor and chain to pull the dead critter out of the pens over to a collection point for a rendering company to come and pick them up once a week. Believe some of those carcasses would get get pretty ripe sitting out in the sun with a 100+ degree heat for a few days. I got to the point where I could grab a deep breath hold it go to the drop point unhook the chain and get the hell out of there before taking another breath, but if something went wrong and I had to take a breath in the drop zone it would definitely be a big time gag session.

Looks to me that none of you fellas have ever saved a mama Cow that had a dead calf in her for several days,......

and had to pull it out, a piece at a time.

I bet Border Doc could get ya' right up to speed on that stunt.

Turtle ?

.....pshawwww

GTC

Yessir, Vicks Salve and a damn good pair of gloves are yer bestests Buds in that case.

Gunner

Worked for the railroad years ago. Had a brakeman that would bring a bag of boiled blue crabs and sit in the second engine and eat them between Savannah and Macon.

Once he forgot to throw his shell and gut bag out.... and after sitting a couple of days, closed and in the hot sun, the engine was uninhabitable for it's next trip out.

As was the custom, the railroad fired his ass for 30 days.. Ran his ass off as we would say Still funny to think about

Small World..... 2 days ago my wife tells me there is a big rat snake caught in some bird netting on a garage shelf..... I really dislike snakes..... We called a friend who is a serious reptile keeper..... Jaynes plan A was to have Leigh come rescue this 7 foot long snake.... Leigh says a rat snake is going to be so mad after being caught in a net for a day or so that she doesn't want to "rescue" it.....


I feel obliged to man up and deal with snake zilla..... I tell Jayne I'll shoot it.... She tells me to hold off on that for a bit.... A few minutes later she tells me she got the branch clippers and cut the snakes head off...... Seems she was afraid I would blast a hole in the garage wall rather than figure a way to drag the netted snake outside first.....( did I mention I really don't like snakes?)...

I had put off the chore of hauling off the deceased snake until this afternoon I went out into the garage to discover an amazingly bad smell.... That snake was decomposing like some sort of unnatural zombie dead creature.....

I got it hauled off without tossing my lunch..... Barely

BTDT, with neither. Trying to sleep with yer' nose far from your arms ain't easy, either.

The Mama Cow made it,.....and THAT was the point of the exercise, I guess. Had I known, I gotta' say I'd have just SHOT her, and been done with it.

Some day over a cold one, lemme tell ya' about the first time stickin' a bloated Cow Beast (Trocar Deal), ....getting directions over a radio, from the boss, while wearing my best duds, and on the way to a wedding.

GTC

That dude was a good sport. Wouldn't mind pounding a few with him.

We get huge turtles here too. Tell you what, though. You think a dead turtle is bad? I'm guessing not many have have ever pulled up to a whale carcass of maybe 20 tons, floating in July for a few weeks first. It is enough to about bowl a man over. A smell that hits you like the proverbial hammer. A smell that makes you immediately, instinctively backpedal.

Sheet mon, even having a whale spray you with the mist from a shot out of its blowhole is enough to make a man's eyes water and make one lightheaded.

That sucks for the turtle, by the way. And not a turtle girl to be seen. Lose, lose, man.

Thanks for sharing pics Shreck.

Rendering tubs where they chemically melt flesh away from bones are really gross smelling.

Been there and done that more times than I care to remember. A fetotomy was where we seperated the men from the boys.

The boys got laughed at a lot

For an R-Kansas chick, gothcha!

Been there and done that, and it is not fun.

used smelly kids diaper that accidentally got left in a hot car.