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Snipe Hunting
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09/03/13 10:03 PM
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jay K
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I've been involved in taking some people on snipe hunts and I'd like to see who's got the best "Snipe" hunting story out there. If you have never been snipe hunting or ever even heard of it ask a buddy to take you.
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jay K]
#4536432
09/03/13 11:53 PM
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jrye
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According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about 544,000 are killed annually.They are also known as woodcock.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jrye]
#4536493
09/04/13 12:15 AM
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Slimpickin
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Always busted people's Bubble when I tell people that snipe are real. Mostly guys from the big northern Cities that have never been in the woods.
Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jrye]
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09/04/13 12:19 AM
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Trout-killer
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According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about 544,000 are killed annually.They are also known as woodcock. Snipe and woodcock are two different birds.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Trout-killer]
#4536537
09/04/13 12:30 AM
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8pointdrop
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Snipe are good eating and fun to hunt. Just wish they were bigger, more meat and maybe I wouldn't miss as much.
And snipe and woodcock are not the same.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: 8pointdrop]
#4536546
09/04/13 12:32 AM
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quackaholic1
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Snipe
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: 8pointdrop]
#4536551
09/04/13 12:33 AM
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jrye
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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Same family different genus. My apologies.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jrye]
#4536567
09/04/13 12:38 AM
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oilag
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Cajun Quail - Really fun to hunt actually.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: oilag]
#4536912
09/04/13 02:17 AM
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Colt W. Knight
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In West Virginia, moonlit nights were the best for snipe hunting. You sent folks into the woods to sit beside a rotten stump with a swatting stick and a baggy.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Colt W. Knight]
#4536918
09/04/13 02:18 AM
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jay K
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In West Virginia, moonlit nights were the best for snipe hunting. You sent folks into the woods to sit beside a rotten stump with a swatting stick and a baggy.
Haha yep this is the kind of snipe hunting i'm talking about
Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. — George Washington
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jay K]
#4536943
09/04/13 02:25 AM
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DoubleB20
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Here's a pic of a real snipe hunt...
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: DoubleB20]
#4536972
09/04/13 02:34 AM
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Wburke2010
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My dads brother took me when I was no more than 5-6 up in the mountains of Colorado. I had no idea where I was except next to a very old cemetery in the middle of now where. It was a long couple hours that they left me their.
I did get one of my friends last year, we where out at my land and he had the flash light and trash bag, I dropped him off a mile or so from my place next to a hole in the fence off a big field. Left him there for about 45 mins before everyone started feeling bad for him. He actually had some hogs walk really close to him, some alcohol was involved and he wasn't too happy about the joke but everyone else got a good laugh.
Walter
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: DoubleB20]
#4536974
09/04/13 02:34 AM
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dogcatcher
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Here's a pic of a real snipe hunt... That is a classic picture
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jay K]
#4536995
09/04/13 02:42 AM
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Matt M
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We had a kid piss himself in highschool on a night snipe hunt, he came to a party with a friend of ours he was from the city. There was no moon so it was pitch black and my buddies dad had a bad arse warewolf costume. We were in a gully behind him and yelled choot it fired a few shots into the ground then yelled chit its still coming get in a tree there was some screaming,then we let everything go quiet then circled around him making some growling noises he took off screaming when the big wolf appered right next to him we found him under a big tree in the fetal position piss all over himself
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Matt M]
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09/04/13 04:01 AM
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Sneaky
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Those things are delicious.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Sneaky]
#4537476
09/04/13 04:34 AM
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Sniper John
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Here's a pic of a real snipe hunt... That is a classic picture I too think that is a great picture. Went through a little trial and error to set that one up. Unfortunately I had taken some ebay auction pictures the day before and did not have my camera set on the best resolution, but it still cropped out well. I have taken quite a few people on Snipe hunts, both with a flashlight, stick, and bag bag in the day in boy scouts, and taken a few THF members on their first real snipe hunt. Knowing the history of how the military term Sniper came about, I really got a kick out of hunting with one of our real Snipers on his first Snipe hunt down in Louisiana near Ft Polk. In boy scouts we took the scoutmaster's son on a snipe hunt. He was as green as they come and it was his first campout. We turned off our flashlights, quietly slipped away leaving him in the woods and back to camp we went. We left him out there in the dark lost without a flashlight. He almost walked off a cliff that night which would not have ended well. As the Senior Patrol Leader I decided it was best not to do that again.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Sniper John]
#4537483
09/04/13 04:37 AM
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Sniper John
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I prefer a net over a potato sack. It took a lot of work to train Blaze to run the birds into my net.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Trout-killer]
#4537492
09/04/13 04:42 AM
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Sniper John
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According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about 544,000 are killed annually.They are also known as woodcock. Snipe and woodcock are two different birds. During my coonhunting years, I have walked up on quite a few woodcock birds in the dark with my headlight that I easily could have swatted with a stick, or kicked into a bag. Makes me wonder if there might have been an original real nighttime snipe hunt dozens of years ago that turned into the legendary prank.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Sniper John]
#4537493
09/04/13 04:42 AM
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JustWingem
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DON'T GET CONFUSED BETWEEN MY PERSONALITY AND MY ATTITUDE. MY PERSONALITY IS WHO I AM...MY ATTITUDE DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ARE
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: JustWingem]
#4537504
09/04/13 04:48 AM
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Sniper John
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Sometimes you get lucky. I so miss hunting with Blaze. And my all time favorite from the Red River Valley that was published in Outdoor Oklahoma a few years ago.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Sniper John]
#4537524
09/04/13 05:03 AM
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JustWingem
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Bottom picture is still my all time favorite Blaze photo!
DON'T GET CONFUSED BETWEEN MY PERSONALITY AND MY ATTITUDE. MY PERSONALITY IS WHO I AM...MY ATTITUDE DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ARE
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: JustWingem]
#4537535
09/04/13 05:14 AM
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dogcatcher
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They are all great pictures, but the top out of the last 3 is our favorite, my wife loves that one.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: dogcatcher]
#4537592
09/04/13 07:23 AM
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Greytshot
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Bird Dog
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I'm reading a book set in 1875 in South Texas about the Texas Rangers and there is a reference in it about taking a new guy on a snipe hunt....been around a long time!
GreytShot South Texas
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: Greytshot]
#4708842
10/31/13 07:37 PM
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Jobst
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So I was interested in real snipe hunting and when I ran across the photos of them I thought to myself I have seen them come near a spot I hunt at and wade in the shallows.
I always though that they were Sandpipers or something. Had long beaks and all. I dont remember about the size or color. Tried to find some sounds of them but couldnt cause I remember they made a distinct sound.
Funny thing is when I looked up sandpiper in wikipedia:
Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. Different lengths of bills enable different species to feed in the same habitat, particularly on the coast, without direct competition for food.
Are sandpipers a type of snipe? Whats the most identifiable clue on them if they fly into your decoy spread?
If I see them on occasion I want to make sure I take em if they are truly snipe. I'll have to carry some photos of them on my phone for next time.
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Re: Snipe Hunting
[Re: jay K]
#4709011
10/31/13 08:19 PM
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1860.colt
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got snipe that been nesting beside the house for years
i'm postaddic
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