Snipe Hunting ~ Anyone ever been?

[BarkerChickens]

I went snipe hunting ONCE as a kid. We lived in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road, so my parents took my friends and I about a mile up the road and dropped us off with flashlights. I am sure we were given a bag, but don't remember for sure. We had to loudly call "Here Snipe, Snipe, Snipe" like "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty". We were told they come when called.

I can only imagine the neighbors enjoyment hearing a a group of girls calling out for snipes...flashlights and all.

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

LOL - funny stories!


gamebirdsonly ~ Yes there are and that usually helps with talking others into going on a hunt.

Ruth ~ OMGosh a graveyard! I had never thought to look there. We have an old old grave yard way out in the woods close to my in laws house. There are some graves that date back to the 1700s and most are sunken in. I will have to keep that spot in mind for future hunts.....

My dh even sends new guys that go to work for him on a job site type snipe hunt LOL They make up some tool that doesn't even exist and send the newbie out to look for it! LOL

 

[ruth]

I'm 50 now and I can still vividly recall seeing my little brother frantically running back to the tombstone where we had left him when we started yelling "here they come. Joe, you ready? Got the bag open? Man it's a lot of them."

After leaving him at a tombstone, we had been secretly watching him from across the cemetery where we, of course, were flushing out the snipe and would run them back in his direction. About the time he got scared and started walking out of the cemetery is when we started yelling "here they come". Still see his little legs running as fast as he could to get back to where we had left him.

Thanks for the memories.

 

[LarryPQ]

Can't find the one of her holding the gunny sack...

 

[ksacres]

Never been, but the boys used to invite me to go all the time.

 

[key west chick]

Ahhh snipe hunting. Ranks up there with cow tippin'. Good old college days!!!

 

[Missouri chick]

We fooled some citybird friends into "snipe" hunting once. Convinced them to sit on top of a hill in the middle of a cow pasture. Gave them a large pot to bang on and call sn-IPE sn-IPE sn-IPE. The end of the word (ipe) had to be called out in a loud high piched voice. Then the other person had to catch the snipe in a sack. They sat out there for hours giving us all a GREAT laugh.

 

[English Chick]

Ok.... what is a snipe???? never heard of one.... anyone got a pic?

 

[LarryPQ]

ooohhh, we could so get you!

In general---there is no such thing as a snipe. It is merely a means to torture the unwary.

I have heard them described as, "Lil' fuzzy chickuns" by a ranch hand or "like a woodchuck & a platypuss with wings".


Edited: there is a bird in the south which is sometimes referred to as a snipe. Also:

http://www.thesnipehunter.com/page9.html

http://home.att.net/~coledon/snipe.htm

 

[Mahonri]

Out here in the southwest, we don't have snipes, we have peligros.

Vicious little critters found mostly in the Southwestern US and Texas. They can attack a human, dog, cat, chicken... they are like a cross between a wolverine, weasel and miniature Mexican wolf all wrapped into one terrorist little animal.

They are smaller than a coyote, quicker than a cat, have the sharpest, most powerful teeth of any mammal in these parts and if you aren't careful at night, they will tear your legs to pieces. Some run in packs like javelinas.

I'm certain most of you have never heard of them but those of us in the southwest, southern California and Texas have. In fact, if you drive many roads out in the country side of the desert out here you will see signs all over in big red letters that say "Danger - Peligro".

Yup... vicious little critters that can chomp their way right through hardware cloth...