I remember coming up on one of those big snappers at a small bridge on winding back road outside of Boone. Biggest turtle I had ever seen. A couple then pulled up in a truck going the opposite way and stopped. The lady gets out and nonchalantly walks over to the big boy, grabs it by the tail and throws it in the pickup bed. Told us they would be eating it. I do love turtle soup but wasn't about to approach that thing. I know they can snap fingers.
Don't think I have ever seen a snapper that big sense. I know we say everything is bigger here in Texas, but Western NC owns the snapping turtle title in my mind.
