Snipe hunting is essentially a prank that’s played on kids and novice hunters where you send them off with a bag to capture a ...

While snipe sometimes travel in small flocks (charmingly termed a "wisp" of snipe), the birds tend to scatter widely across feeding areas. Typically, they hold fairly well and often flush within ...

You’re going out hunting with some friends or family, and you’ve never been much of a hunter. It might even be your first ...

The first snipe rocketed - there is no other way to describe the flush of a snipe - from seemingly vacant ground about 15 yards ahead. Within a heartbeat, the bird was at 30 yards, flying in the ...

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 ...

Snipe are not the wariest birds. I have seen them circle back within range after flushing. Sometimes they fly only 50 to 100 yards and then settle down again.

You’re going out hunting with some friends or family, and you’ve never been much of a hunter. It might even be your ...

There are two kinds of snipe hunting. One, the kind that most people are familiar with, involves a ditch, a burlap sack, a dark night and an innocent victim.

Understand at the outset that even if shotgunners bag limits of birds (8 per person, per day), you're not going to fill a freezer like you could with an 8-point buck.

Snipe hunting: A legitimate outdoor activity in which sportsmen seek small, fast-flying, hard-to-hit, unpredictable, tasty, long-billed birds that frequent open wetlands. Snipe hunts, the ...

At daybreak the snipe normally flies back to drier grass where he lounges about all day by himself. What snipe do when the ground freezes hard is a mystery. My opinion is that when the bird rears back ...

The snipe season opens in Maine on Sept. 1. It's no joke, and don’t be offended if someone snickers at you when you tell them what you’re up to.