snipe

[CB900F]

Fella's;

The confusion exists because of the improper terminology used here. Snipe, the bird, does exist. It is indeed usually hunted with a shotgun. My post #2 here reads as it does because of the form, or lack thereof, of post #1.

Now then. The other "sport" that's being bandied about here is not snipe hunting as such. It's sidehill snipe hunting. These animals have legs shorter on one side of the body than the other & therefore always run around hills on little game paths either counter, or clockwise, as determined by how they happened to leave the nest after birth. Note that left hand snipe cannot breed with right hand snipe, but they are the same generia & phylum. How this can be is a mystery that biologists do not want to talk about. If you doubt me, just try to engage one of your state's Fish & Game biologists on the subject, they'll just fob you off. These extremely shy and nocturnal animals are indeed hunted with pillow cases & clubs.

Now, has everybody got it straight?

900F

 

[Avenger]

Way back in my first year of Scouts, we stuck a kid out in the woods all night with a bag, a ballbat, and instructions to rustle twigs underneath the bags to lure them in. 7 hours later, he walks into camp with the plucked and headless bodies of a dozen pheasants. Nobody ever worked up the courage to ask him how he managed it.

 

[kentucky_smith]

I seem to interchange snipe and woodcock. Whilst ruffed grouse hunting, my setter will find 'em, I'll shoot 'em, then I'll try to give them to someone else to eat. Not all that great eating. Saw a whole flock the other day on the side of the road.

 

[marksman13]

Kentucky Smith, I don't know what you did to the snipe you ate, but me and the boys found them to be some of the best eating ever. Marinated in Wicker's, wrapped in bacon and grilled like a dove. They were excellent.

 

[paintballdude902]

i didnt know they were real till last year

 

[1/4MOA]

i wish you all could have witnessed "the prank." when i was playing college baseball a couple years ago we had a guy on the team from Canada, and had never heard of this but when he asked if he wanted to go, he was gung ho for sure. He sat out in that filled with a pillow case, stick, no flashlight. We told him you had to call the snipe, "here, snipe, snipe, snipe, snipe." amazing part is he kept at if for 3 hours until finally walking back to the house, walking in the door and saying, "i dont think there's any snipe there can we try another place..... " haha

 

[dagger dog]

Snipe, woodcock, timberdoodle, all names for the hard to hit little SOB's.

Never saw a bird fly upside down until I saw one of them, and did it through branches so thick you couldn't throw a BB with out it hitting a limb. They make a bat look like they're flying straight!

The 28ga would be perfect, you have so little time you have to get on them quick or they're gone.Max range 20yrds because of the tight cover, 15 is more like it.

 

[koja48]

I've shot "at" them on occasion . . . sorta like trying to hit a spastic dove on crack on the the second shot . . . at the end of each inning, the score was: gunner 0. snipe 10 . . . would have done better with a gunny sack at night, I'm thinkin' . . .

 

[uk roe hunter]

i get quite a lot on my marsh. i shoot at them with my 12 bore and 6 shot becuase thats what i have with me for shooting ducks. i don't get many. they are tough to shoot. they are different to the woodcock.

steve

 

[macfarlaine123]

I shoot them on our salt marsh. Walked up into the wind, they are a quick bird and tend to jink once in flight. I use a 12b with a No 6 shell.
Eating they are delicious, fry for two minutes in salted butter and serve on toasted bread.

 

[hockeybum]

for those of you guys that don't know this is a snipe



just use a 12 or 20 gauge with 2 3/4 and 8 shot. mainly any shotgun with 8 shot. i don't know about 28 or .410.

when they take off, they'll zigzag from side to side making it hard to hit them. its a LOT of fun though.

 

[jamesb]

16 ga