-
September 8th, 2016, 05:24 PM
#1
Snipe hunting
Any snipe hunters on here? How common are these birds in Ontario, what's there choice of habitat? What method do you use, dog, walk up. I've hunted woodcock many times but have only seen snipe a few times, I here they taste a bit better then woodcock.
-
September 8th, 2016 05:24 PM
# ADS
-
September 8th, 2016, 05:38 PM
#2
There are about 25 species of snipe. The majority are protected.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=snipe...&client=safari
-
September 8th, 2016, 06:06 PM
#3
I am talking about the common snipe found here in Ontario for which there is a open season.
Last edited by fishhawk; September 8th, 2016 at 06:11 PM.
-
September 8th, 2016, 07:58 PM
#4
Yea, we call them timberdoodles!!!!
-
September 8th, 2016, 08:06 PM
#5
Snipe and woodcock are two different species.
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff
-
September 8th, 2016, 08:56 PM
#6
Snipe a marsh birds bit harder to hunt sometimes they while frequent flood pasture where hunting them is a bit easier. Hard to pattern as not as predictable to pattern as woodcock. In my opinion hardest to hit target out the. Funny thing you need steel for snipe yet lead for woodcock. Oh ya and its not like the snipe hunt from cheers episode.
Time in the outdoors is never wasted
-
September 9th, 2016, 08:09 AM
#7
The edges of lakes,and swamps that had the thin pencil reeds growing in them was always where we used to find them. Walk along the shore in a couple of inches,of water till you put one up, don't shoot right away, they twist and turn on the flush but then level out
-
September 9th, 2016, 09:49 AM
#8

Originally Posted by
rick_iles
Yea, we call them timberdoodles!!!!
Woodcock, AKA Timberdoodle - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/...aurameyers.jpg
Common Snipe - http://ontfin.com/Word/wp-content/up...9/07/cosn3.jpg
Different birds, the woodcock lives in the bush, eats lots of earth worms, the snipe is a marsh bird.
-
September 12th, 2016, 07:35 AM
#9
I had a good hunt a few years back....walking across a pasture which had about 1 inch of water. I was grouse hunting and crossed the pasture to get to the next woods...my dog started flushing them. They were fun to shoot...smaller than woodcock as tablefare. I have also shot them while sitting in a duck blind out of boredom.
-
September 12th, 2016, 09:08 AM
#10
I never shot a snipe in 16 years in ON, hunted them in Europe though, they're uncommon here, to say the least, there's not a lot of proper habitat, most of ON marshes were drained for farming. People hunt them in the American south east.
"The dog is Small Munsterlander, the gun is Beretta."
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" A. Saint-Exupery.