Snipe hunting

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No this isn't a joke where I'll have you out with a flash light turning over cow pies looking for snipe. Really anyone ever hunt them, or at least shoot a few while pheasant or duck hunting? I bagged a few this year, tasty little guys but not much meat on them. Me and my brother got a few walking zig zags about 50yds apart through marsh edges and flooded (actually just flooding up) rice stubble. Any tips, anyone ever tried it?
 
Snipe...the wannabe woodcock. :)
Never shot one tho flushed them in Iowa.
I'll stick with the little trundling bogsucker, the timberdoodle.

One fella on several boards goes by Snipehunter...lives in Florida and targets snipe.
Worth Mathewson wrote a good snipe book.
 
I see a lot of snipe and rail. Not 100% sure on what I'm seeing. I'd like to go with some who could I.D. them. And then I could say I've done it.:cool:
 
I normally get a few wilson snipe each year in oklahoma. Not enough to make a big deal out of hunting them. However, I do hunt a few days for Timberdoodles (woodcock). The last day of quail season 15 Febuary the dogs pointed a nesting woodcock that was setting on four eggs. I took pictures of the nest, and later found out that it was the earliest recorded nesting of a woodcock in SW oklahoma.
 
I'm not sure of the properness of posting links here in this forum, but there is a Snipe Hunters Forum on the web. Very intresting! Google it up, you won't be unhappy.


BobM
 
Shot one last year yearly in the season. Wish I would have got it mounted.
 
We see several in flooded rice/bean fields, etc here in AR. Fun to hunt and pretty good to eat, about like a dove. Pretty much a walk out in a muddy field and jump em type hunt, not any dogs except for retrieving.
 
Quail Hound,

Just a follow up. I find them in marsh areas or around small ponds normally near cattails.
I have found them in several Water Production Areas in Nebraska as well. The Snipe has a longer beak than that of the American Woodcock. They hold real well for pointing dogs if they are in thick cover. They will however test your shooting skills as they dart and dive around cover.
 
They're very nimble guys, I also find that they like to fly low so I hold off on most shots.
 
Anyone have a picture of these? I thought a Snipe was another name for woodcock?
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goldeneye said:
So Woodcock and snipes are the same then?
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From what I can gather the woodcock is a bigger bird associated with wooded habitat (think grouse) while snipe are smaller and generally associated with open marsh lands and flooded crop land. To the best of my knowledge there are no woodcock (or woodcock season) in California even though we do have some ruffies in the northwest corner of the state. They say if you had one of each in hand you could easily distinguish them.
 
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No, the pic is good. You can see the size difference and different eye location, I just don't think many of us caught it until you pointed it out.
 
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