Snipe hunting video

In Russia
https://youtu.be/WDC8CoF08Kg

thanks for the share !

Looks like fun thanks for posting.

That was nice. Thanks for sharing it with us!

Enjoyed that! Thanks.:)

Nice video, I actually got into a few of those last fall. I found that they tasted better then woodcock. Hoping for a few this upcoming season.

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Originally Posted by fishhawk

Nice video, I actually got into a few of those last fall. I found that they tasted better then woodcock. Hoping for a few this upcoming season.

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What kind of habitat did you find them? Was it around London? (Not asking for specific location)

Thanks that was nice . Good dog , good shooting.

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Originally Posted by vom Dufenshmirtz

What kind of habitat did you find them? Was it around London? (Not asking for specific location)

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We'd all like to know. There has been a couple that eluded me while woodcock hunting however was carrying lead and no steel so could not go after them, the following week armed with steel and they were no where to be found.

They look like an over grown woodcock. Nice to see.

I'm also intrigued by the Shot Kam...

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What kind of habitat did you find them? Was it around London? (Not asking for specific location)

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Yes it was in the London area, semi flooded agricultural fields in brushy areas.

tasty little buggers. i might try to bag a couple more this season.

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Originally Posted by vom Dufenshmirtz

What kind of habitat did you find them? Was it around London? (Not asking for specific location)

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I don’t know if this will be help, but I grew up along a reservoir lake which fed an inland canal system. Snipe like woodcock are billed as a migratory game birds, in the fall as water levels fell, because of water drawn off by the canal system during the summer months, the lake would exhibit sizable mud flats along the shoreline. The shoreline mud flats are their feeding ground. They probe them for small mollusks, snails, water bugs, frogs, etc. that are found in the soft mud. Their cousin the woodcock feeds higher up on the shoreline a behaviour similar to other upland game birds. However in the evening, the snipe had a ritual, of encircle the hay-field next to the lake, making a high pitched call. This I found was the best time to take them, away from the mud flats, and over the field..


You don’t stop hunting because you grow old. You grow old because you stop hunting.
- Gun Nut

Thanks

Nice video. Sure are low flyers.

ZOOOOM!