I leave Sunday to spend a couple of weeks chasing this glorious bastard as well as the king of upland game (ruffed grouse). I’ll also get to pop a top with friends and judge Drahthaars in their utility test. Fall is a wonderful time of year.
Snipe? Never hunted them, always wanted to.I leave Sunday to spend a couple of weeks chasing this glorious bastard as well as the king of upland game (ruffed grouse). I’ll also get to pop a top with friends and judge Drahthaars in their utility test. Fall is a wonderful time of year.
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Snipe, up there with Squonk. I hear, great eating.Snipe? Never hunted them, always wanted to.
American Woodcock.Snipe? Never hunted them, always wanted to.
I leave Sunday to spend a couple of weeks chasing this glorious bastard as well as the king of upland game (ruffed grouse). I’ll also get to pop a top with friends and judge Drahthaars in their utility test. Fall is a wonderful time of year.
I had a three labs and a chessie that loved to retrieve, especially waterfowl even swimming through blocks of sea ice. A couple of times I limited on ducks without firing a shot when the dog would see a cripple in the marsh grass and retrieve it, with a two bird limit for black ducks or teal it was easy for the dog to limit out. With doves none would retrieve without a second command. Maybe the TX doves have better connected feathers, but where I hunted them the shot would knock off a cloud of feathers and the dog would have a few dozen feathers in the mouth and up the nose with the retrieve. Grouse, pheasant, ducks and geese were never an issue.Just curious, what do you mean your dog "didn't like" retrieving the dove? Would your dog refuse to retrieve it?
The snipe prank is pretty funny. It happen to me when I was kid early 70's, but just want to call this out, cuz rookies on here don't know. But snipe is a shore bird like the wood coock (I just learned about on this thread). I'm enjoying all the posts on here...Dove excellent eating. Woodcock hard, hard to hit. Snipe are very elusive have to hunt at night, with a gunny sack, subdued light, a whistle and a great imagination.
This is really so funny, I'm sorry if I spoiled the fun, but this really could have gone from "real old timer prank" to "social media Ski talk prank" lol. I'm trying to help the Velvet Hammer, I probably should stay in my swim lane.Snipe are very elusive have to hunt at night, with a gunny sack, subdued light, a whistle and a great imagination.
I did not really get into hunting till later in life. Did some dove hunting in high school (late 70's), put prior to that, we hung out at the creek with our pellet guns. We shot snakes and rats. We would build fires at the bottom of cliff rat holes and smoke the rats out, they would come running out the top of the cliff rate holes we were ready and smoked them with our pellet guns. We were the rate busters. We worked for free.The closest I ever came to hunting was when i was 12 my friend and I ordered a .22 pellet gun for $75 plus shipping. It was pretty powerful for an air pump gun. My parents never knew about it. I was tall so i would put the gun down my leg to walk to the inactive railroad tracks. We had to walk by the police chief's house. I was a pretty good shot so got my share of small game, even a crow way up in the sky.
Snipe, up there with Squonk. I hear, great eating.
Snipe is really good eating for vegans.This is really so funny, I'm sorry if I spoiled the fun, but this really could have gone from "real old timer prank" to "social media Ski talk prank" lol. I'm trying to help the Velvet Hammer, I probably should stay in my swim lane.
I hunted when I was growing up.I hunted a ton growing up as it was a source of food where I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains. We killed and ate a lot of grouse, pheasant, wild turkey and white tail deer.
I do very little hunting these days except for a little duckhunting along the Potomac River. There are so many white tail deer out here in Loudoun County Virginia that I could hunt deer with a hammer. They are more like pets than anything else now so I could never shoot them. Not to mention, unlike as a kid there’s a grocery store down the street that I can afford to shop at!
I’m guessing the latter is a losing battle! LolI hunted when I was growing up.
Its been years since I've done any real shooting. I do have a pellet gun that I use to get the pests in my back yard, ....and to keep Phil in line.
And then I get Andy and Phil together.... oyI’m guessing the latter is a losing battle! Lol
I could hunt deer with a hammer
Snipe is really good eating for vegans.