Snipe Hunting ~ Anyone ever been?

[Chicks_N_Horses]

I just loved the deer hunting thread that reminded me of hunting snipes. We grow 'em big down here in the South. You can't use a paper bag...you need a big ol croaker sack. A flashlight and you have to stand just right to catch one. You need to be under a hickory tree and whistle just right....

Anyone ever been snipe hunting???

Share your tips and stories on catching the famous snipe ~

 

[Sallyschickens]

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Last time I hunted for snipe down in TX I was nine years old!!

 

[gritsar]

Ummm, yeah as a teenager I went snipe hunting in the NC mountains but it wasn't my fault!
I grew up part-time in NC and part-time in Florida and in Florida, there is such a bird called a snipe. How was I suppose to know better?

 

[NGT ANGL]

I always heard that standing on one leg and holding your mouth just right was a perfect invitation for them to just jump into your ole' gunny sack!

 

[gumpsgirl]

My sons go to Boy Scout camp every year and they come back with snipe hunting stories every year! It's funny to listen to them.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

The most entertainment I think I have ever gotten has been snipe hunting with newbies

 

[LarryPQ]

Oh, the GUNNY SACK!!

I used to run a dude ranch in CO---it was a pet project of our Housing COmpany's owner.

ANYWHOO--every year the sent the women employees of the homebuilder up to the ranch (men on a diff trip). It was always great fun getting the newbies a little tipsy and then sending them out in the brush.

We got our new receptionist once...21 and never been out of the city. They made her put on waders, a trucker hat (for protection), and gloves. Then everyone scattered while she made the **chip chip sqeeel!** sound. She crawled around in the bushes for HOURS before someone took pity on her and "caught" a snipe. They gave her a gunny sack full of rocks and leaves & took her picture. She figured out it was a fraud when the rocks clacked.

Funniest thing ever. She scowled at the female employees for weeks!

Looking for picture!

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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LMAO!

 

[ruth]

The way I heard it - it's best to take someone snipe hunting in the cemetery late at night.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Actually there is such thing as snipe hunting they look some what like a woodcock they have a long beak and you find them in swampy areas.

We can hunt them during the waterfowl season and they taste like dove.