Some of my family were frog gigging by wading a central Kentucky creek back in the 50's. My grandfather spotted a large turtle and said he was going take it home and clean him. During those days the only light we had were the carbide lights. My grandfather said he would cut the head off the turtle and put in down his coveralls until he could get it back to the truck. So that's what he did, in the dim light, he cut the turtles head off and stuck the turtle down his coverhauls. When he got back to the truck and took the turtle from his coveralls, he realized he had cut off the turtle's right foot.