My Snipe hunting area is a wide river bottom, often with areas of a little standing water. It's planted with Smartweed. The flushes always seem to be close. Since it's a management area for waterfowl, steel shot is required. If I could use lead, a vintage gun with shortened barrels/no chokes would be my choice. As it is, I'm limited to a 20ga Mossberg bolt action that has screw-on chokes, so I leave off the choke and shoot cylinder.

I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.