Somewhere in here there is a tutorial on how to clean a snapper but Im not smart enough to find it for you or I would.

Smack it on the nose tip with 2 x4, grab channel locks and cut head off. Put it in something so pets or kids can't get bit. Take a garden hose with sprayer nozzle and blow the turtle up like a balloon. Helps separate meat from skin. Nail neck to a piece of 3/4" plywood and start cutting. Take the feet off and follow the shell and then around the bottom plate.

I have been thinking chicken broth in an insta pot pressure cooker for about 20 minutes. The finish up like Andrew.

Yotetrapper, I would recommend a video called (Snapping Turtles from A-Z with Jerry Schilling) Jerry does a great job showing how to butcher the turtles and even explains frying the turtles better than I can. I give total credit to him for my fried turtle and he has cut my butchering time down to between 5 and 10 minutes per turtle. The first one of the season is usually closer to the 10 minute mark, but like skinning beaver or anything else I get faster as it goes. Basically you nose knock the turtle, cut head off so he don't bite ya (save the two little nuggets out of top the head, they is the best eating piece of the turtle), remove feet so he don't scratch ya, then cut around the top shell, bust back between hips and top shell, twist top shell off of neck end, nail the bottom shell to table so legs hang over table edge, with a little knife work to start each leg and neck piece pull them all out of the hide one at a time.

Thanks everyone

So you’re saying you don’t need to clean out a turtle? I’ve always heard you do but I’m open to other opinions