I went on a snipe hunt last week at a local park, but I wasn’t nearly as successful as last October. Back then, I shot two of the medium-sized chunky gamebird at once — with my camera. Taking their ...
The other kind of snipe hunting involves guns, dogs, walking through knee-deep mud and a real bird that not only flies but does so very, very fast and never in a straight line. We have seen small ...
Magic. Magic is what keeps me going. Trying to find magic in my life is what keeps the mundane monotony out of my life. I try to keep the grueling agony of everyday life locked up in a burlap sack, ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The folklore surrounding snipe hunting as a practical joke played on gullible, inexperienced campers has been around for so long that some people don’t realize snipe are real ...
“Do you know the bogs at all, Mr. Riley?” asked a member of the Garryricken Club in Kilkenny as he sent me out on my first shoot in Ireland. “I’ve heard the bogs can be treacherous,” I ventured. “It’s ...
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Ever been on a snipe hunt? No, not the kind with a pillow case and group of guys who leave you in the woods without a flashlight. I'm talking about a legitimate, gun-totin' hunt for snipe. I'd bet ...
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Q. This probably falls into the category of "dumb question," but how do you tell a snipe from a woodcock? A. That's not a dumb question at all. They're both long-billed birds with brownish-colored ...
In many parts of Pennsylvania, outdoor pranksters still play a joke known as a snipe hunt on naïve newbies. Sometime after sunset the pranksters announce that the group is going on a snipe hunt. Some ...
In a major breakthrough for Australian ornithology, researchers have placed a tracker on the "holy grail" of endangered birds — the Australian painted-snipe — for the first time. Ecologist and painted ...