snipe hunting
Matthew Schultz
Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
I worked in a gas station in South Dakota and on the questionaire we had
to give to all who where applying for a hunting license it asks if you
have hunted snipe before.
An official state document asking this!! At least I know what the
politicians do for fun.
ms
Brian Liedtke
you could hunt then in Colorado with a small game liscense. I know
that 'the snipe hunt' is a time honered tradition for duping the
gullible. However, you really can hunt snipe. (Maybe this lends
credance to the con)
Brian Liedtke
John Kelly
Matthew Schultz wrote:
>
> Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
>
> I worked in a gas station in South Dakota and on the questionaire we had
> to give to all who where applying for a hunting license it asks if you
> have hunted snipe before.
>
> An official state document asking this!! At least I know what the
> politicians do for fun.
>
> ms
What's tough is to go off on a snipe hunt with your buddies and come
back with a pink belly.
JK
Ilif...@aol.com
>>Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
>>I worked in a gas station in South Dakota and on the questionaire we had
>>to give to all who where applying for a hunting license it asks if you
>>have hunted snipe before.
>>An official state document asking this!! At least I know what the
>>politicians do for fun.
Snipe hunting isn't a joke, just a well-kept secret. The bird we hunt
here in the states is the common or Wilson's snipe (look it up in any bird
book). It looks somewhat like a scrawny woodcock and can be found in
flooded pastures or marshes with just a skim of water and a little vegetation
for cover on them. Hunting regulations for it are usually mixed in with the
waterfowl regs. In Oregon we are allowed 8 snipe a day. Since nobody hunts
it you can have some very good shoots on easily accessible public land with
no other hunters around. (I've run into one other snipe hunter in the last 5
years). I've flushed several hundred in the course of a day when the flocks
are in. They also have the charming habit of bunching up and circling back
over head so its possible to knock down several birds with one shot. Of
course they are migratory and tend to move out fast when the ground freezes.
Bill I.
R R Neuswanger
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997 Ilif...@aol.com wrote:
> Snipe hunting isn't a joke, just a well-kept secret. The bird we hunt
> here in the states is the common or Wilson's snipe (look it up in any bird
> book).
There is both snipe and rail hunting in
Tidewater Virginia; I believe Warren Eastland, who used
to be a regular here, did it at least once. I'd like to.
> It looks somewhat like a scrawny woodcock and can be
> found in
> flooded pastures or marshes with just a skim of water and a little vegetation
> for cover on them. Hunting regulations for it are usually mixed in with the
> waterfowl regs. In Oregon we are allowed 8 snipe a day. Since nobody hunts
> it you can have some very good shoots on easily accessible public land with
> no other hunters around. (I've run into one other snipe hunter in the last 5
> years).
Sounds like you could do it on foot! In the
Tidewater, I understand, you normally get somebody to
pole you along on some sort of shallow-draft and
probably flat-bottomed boat ...
> I've flushed several hundred in the course of a day
> when the flocks
> are in. They also have the charming habit of bunching up and circling back
> over head so its possible to knock down several birds with one shot. Of
> course they are migratory and tend to move out fast when the ground freezes.
Can you get small enough bismuth shot to do it
with old guns?? It sure sounds great!
R.R. Neuswanger, Ph.D., NRA-L
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Tony (by way of Alex Vitek <alexvit@ix.netcom.com>)
Brian Liedtke <lie...@verinet.com> wrote in article
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> Matthew Schultz wrote:
> >
> > Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
> >
> >
> >
> you could hunt then in Colorado with a small game liscense. I know
> that 'the snipe hunt' is a time honered tradition for duping the
> gullible. However, you really can hunt snipe. (Maybe this lends
> credance to the con)
>
> Brian Liedtke
>
Tony Webb
Lance LaFrinier (by way of Alex Vitek <alexvit@ix.netcom.com>)
Matthew Schultz <mountm...@webtv.net> wrote in article
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> Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
>
> I worked in a gas station in South Dakota and on the questionaire we had
> to give to all who where applying for a hunting license it asks if you
> have hunted snipe before.
>
> An official state document asking this!! At least I know what the
> politicians do for fun.
>
> ms
>
I have hunted snipe in Northern Minnesota...it's a lot of fun. Its been
quite a few years since I've chased them, but I believe it was the Wilson
Snipe. They seem to like open areas that are wet, similar looking to a
Woodcock, but about 1/2 the size.
Lance
Scott Webster Wood - TheWild Webster
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Matthew Schultz wrote:
> Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
>
> I worked in a gas station in South Dakota and on the questionaire we had
> to give to all who where applying for a hunting license it asks if you
> have hunted snipe before.
>
> An official state document asking this!! At least I know what the
> politicians do for fun.
>
> ms
Yes, it is really a bird (as I noted a comment in another reply). For
those of you familiar with the North American Woodcock, you will not be
too far from imagining a Common Snipe. The Woodcock is descended from
the same families of species that evolved into the snipe.
I for one have taken some 'discount' 2 3/4" 20 guage steel cartridges I
stumbled across at the local Kmart on many a hunting trip to Michigan's
thumb where I had previously seen many snipe running some of the man made
dikes and estuaries. Although I have as of yet to do much more than
knock a few feathers off of some of them, I plan on going back again to
use up the rest of the shells if at all possible.
A far stretch from the fictional hunts from your boy scouting days,
whether your variation included clacking sticks together in the dark
while sitting on a coffee can or holding a birlap sack making 'whoop
whoop' noises as loud as you can. I have heard many other variations in
regards to just what the critter 'is' on a snipe hunt too.
Perhaps, checking your various audobon picture books and/or bird guides
in combination with the various state migratory bird guide regulations on
hunting of snipe (not to mention a creative imagination that could
somehow add 'territorial' behaviors matching your next expedition with
those new undoctrinated hunters) can add the necessary credibility to
your next "snipe hunt", even if your intentions are less than amiable...
Scott
Lance L. Surgeon
John Kelly <abqk...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
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> Matthew Schultz wrote:
> > Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
> > I worked in a gas station in South Dakota and on the questionaire we
> > have hunted snipe before.
> >
> > An official state document asking this!! At least I know what the
> > politicians do for fun.
There is such a bird as a snipe. It is known as a Wilson snipe but I have
no idea who Wilson is.
They are a migratory bird and look very similar to a woodcock but they
reside in open marshy area. When flushed they fly very erratically and are
hard to hit.
I hunted them during my youth but no longer have access to the property.
--
Lance L. Surgeon
"My father was a real cut up"
Smukerji
In article <01bc655a$0ca2f740$140535cf@ground0>, "Lance L. Surgeon"
<lsur...@bellsouth.net> writes:
>John Kelly <abqk...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
><3365EF...@ix.netcom.com>...
>> Matthew Schultz wrote:
>> > Is snipe hunting a joke for all outdoorsman?
I have resisted the temptation to join this thread, but what the....
Back in India, snipe hunting used to be considered very "sporting" and
usually the prerogative of the "elite" -- somewhat like foxhunting with
hounds in England. This is because when disturbed, a snipe, which is
roughly the size of a small woodcock, would take wing like a bat out of
hell, emitting a shrill warning call, and gaining an altitude of a several
hundred feet within a few seconds, jinking from side to side as it went.
This made for a very small, highspeed target, hence "sporting". And since
you missed the little bugger more times than you hit it, and ammo was
outrageously expensive in India, only the "elite" could participate in
snipe hunting. A hugely successful day would produce a very tasty, but
somewhat spartan, meal for about two and one half people (assuming they
were on a low protien diet of course).
I am ashamed to admit that enjoying a snipe appetizer, but being neither
very "sporting" nor very "elite", I never cared for the odds too much, and
thus my preferred method of snipe hunting (all legal of course) was to
crawl on my belly up to the edge of the marshes and bogs that were the
snipe's habitat, and letting fly at the suckers with an air(pellet)gun
while they were ankle-deep in ooze, head bobbing up and down, searching
for the aquatic life that was their "catch of the day". Suffice to say, I
never lacked for appetizers.
Subhash
Subhash Mukerji <smuk...@aol.com>
"The Almighty never deducts from a man's lifetime the hours he spends hunting
and fishing"