My very 1st common snipe!

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My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Liberty-Hunt » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:09 am

2 days ago a friend of mine bring me to a new opportunity.
I try to hunt for the very 1st time some snipe. And I get the beginner chance...I kill one common snipe!
I can tell you it's a very hard shot...
It will stay in my memory... 8-)

Did an other HB member hunted this bird?

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Unread postby greenhorndave » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:14 am

Nice! They look small and fast. Well, maybe not anymore for the one you’re holding. :lol:
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Unread postby Smitty » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:19 am

I hunt in northern Wisconsin and that snipe looks like what we call a woodcock. Do you or anyone else know if they’re the same bird?
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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Liberty-Hunt » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:19 am

greenhorndave wrote:Nice! They look small and fast. Well, maybe not anymore for the one you’re holding. :lol:

Ho yes, they are fast and flight in Z...but I had the beginner chance for this one. ;)
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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Liberty-Hunt » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:24 am

Smitty wrote:I hunt in northern Wisconsin and that snipe looks like what we call a woodcock. Do you or anyone else know if they’re the same bird?


For sure it's an other smallest species.
Woodcock have several species (US are the smallest, but snipe are definitely much more small) and they are in my knowledge 2 kind of snipe, the common and the deaf snipe (it's the name translate from the French name, not sure in English).
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Unread postby Liberty-Hunt » Wed Jan 22, 2020 7:26 am

You know, I'm 50 years old, and what I do love in hunting, it can bring you new experiences each time you go!
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Unread postby greenhorndave » Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:49 am

Smitty wrote:I hunt in northern Wisconsin and that snipe looks like what we call a woodcock. Do you or anyone else know if they’re the same bird?

We have a similar type of snipe in SE WI too. I heard this sound at night several times in early spring and it took me weeks to 1) verify I wasn’t hearing things and 2) see what it could be.

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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby stash59 » Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:19 am

In some parts of the US. Going "snipe" hunting was kind of a bad experience. Kind of a rite of passage. A young outdoors person was taken "snipe" hunting at night. Armed with only a gunnysack. Told by the oldster's that they would drive the "snipe" towards them. Then left in the dark for a long, long time. Some kids never got over it!!!
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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Pse » Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:40 am

cut my teeth shooting at snipe when I was growing up, lots of missing at times . If your walking them up they are wonderful sporting birds zig zagging away
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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Pse » Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:43 am

greenhorndave wrote:
Smitty wrote:I hunt in northern Wisconsin and that snipe looks like what we call a woodcock. Do you or anyone else know if they’re the same bird?

We have a similar type of snipe in SE WI too. I heard this sound at night several times in early spring and it took me weeks to 1) verify I wasn’t hearing things and 2) see what it could be.

https://youtu.be/ImGcEaQ7As4
here my call that drumming it's the courtship display
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Unread postby Pse » Thu Jan 23, 2020 9:46 am

Smitty wrote:I hunt in northern Wisconsin and that snipe looks like what we call a woodcock. Do you or anyone else know if they’re the same bird?
its not the same bird woodcock are a much larger bird than snipe though they look similar
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Unread postby Smitty » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:18 pm

Pse wrote:
Smitty wrote:I hunt in northern Wisconsin and that snipe looks like what we call a woodcock. Do you or anyone else know if they’re the same bird?
its not the same bird woodcock are a much larger bird than snipe though they look similar


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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Rich M » Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:31 pm

The guys down here like to hunt them - we have a bunch in wet muddy areas, they winter down here I think.

They twitter and fly out a bit then go straight up. Small enough that I con't tell how high they are.

Fun hunt. Glad you got one!

The woodcock question - woodcock are fatter and have shorter legs. Easier to hit to cause they usually jump up underfoot and not out front like a snipe.
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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby Drenalin » Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:31 pm

stash59 wrote:In some parts of the US. Going "snipe" hunting was kind of a bad experience. Kind of a rite of passage. A young outdoors person was taken "snipe" hunting at night. Armed with only a gunnysack. Told by the oldster's that they would drive the "snipe" towards them. Then left in the dark for a long, long time. Some kids never got over it!!!

When I was a kid, going on a snipe hunt sounded more like a threat than an invitation!
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Re: My very 1st common snipe!

Unread postby DaveT1963 » Fri Jan 24, 2020 2:05 am

If you don't want to go snipe hunting you could always go Cow Tipping in the south. :D

Wilson Snipe is native to N. America, there are several other species that have been introduced much like Ring-Neck Pheasants


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