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Joined: Feb 2013
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Though I've hunted rails and I've hunted woodcock, I've never chased after cousin snipe. Yesterday, being off from work and dealing with a constant barrage of rain, my hunting partner and I decided we would walk the fringes of the duck swamps and bogs, as well as some flooded fields to see if we could put up any snipe. We did not raise a feather. Any tips for hunting snipe in the northern states?
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Sidelock
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I hunted them in the south and still do from time to time. Populations are way down where I am. Best advice is good luck finding huntable populations. When you find them, they are a lot of fun to hunt
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They will occasionally show up in flooded pastures down here. Wet,shallow areas are what you need, the bigger the better. Gil
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Joined: Nov 2015
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I've shot hundreds, mostly in the wet meadow zone of grazed wetlands. Few here now, as willows, hybrid cattail and reed canary grass have shaded the meadows out and glyphosate (Roundup) has killed the wet meadow plants around the edges of wetlands that still lie in cropland. Four of us shot 31 in one walk around a single bay of a grazed hardstem bulrush marsh when the limit was 8. Buddy Tom found the 32nd in his hunting coat about three weeks later!
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Sidelock
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Old rice fields and cow pastures - preferably rice fields that are cow pastures - are what they have historically liked down here. Even friends with perfect habitat report low populations, though
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Are snipes different than woodcock?
So many guns, so little time!
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Yes they're different birds (though they look similar) and I believe they have completely different diets and habitat.
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Sidelock
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Joined: May 2013
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Back in the 80's we hunted Snipe at Catahoula Lake in central La. and there were lots of them. It was a lot of fun. We just walked them up in the wet ground covered with cockle burrs.
We shot a lot of shells because we would shoot at some slower flying birds but found out they were actually mosquitoes.
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"We shot a lot of shells because we would shoot at some slower flying birds but found out they were actually mosquitoes."
Now that is funny. I can believe it though.
David
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Hunted a few, normally around shore line, or edges of pounds in middle of field
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