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12/23 Snipe Hunt, now with the rest of the pictures #1125206 12/24/09 12:14 AM
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I got company arriving for a party, but just wanted to get this picture up for Long Haired Dave to see when he gets home. More to come later.

Y'all can ask him how many Snipe fell from this wisp after the smoke cleared
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Cool picture eh?




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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt [Re: Sniper John] #1125214 12/24/09 12:19 AM
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really cool pic John! I'm going to guess and say that 0 snipe fell rofl bolt





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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt [Re: FowlDreams] #1125756 12/24/09 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted By: FowlDreams
really cool pic John! I'm going to guess and say that 0 snipe fell rofl bolt


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I want to do a snipe hunt this year John!


Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Sniper John] #1126034 12/24/09 06:46 AM
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My first Snipe hunt of the season. Good friend Dave on the hunt too. Started miserable. Rain, hot and muggy in the rain gear. No Snipe at our first location. Water over my waders. It was looking bad, but we did the death march back to the truck and tried a new location. Again it looked bad at first with no birds flushing, but finally we got in an area that looked promising.

Right off I got 4 birds for 4 shots. Dave shot more...shots that is. wink But on my next two shots, it ended my chance at 8 for 8. One of these days I will.

Blaze takin a break.



The Snipe March... I mean Marsh



Cripple, Whoa, on point.



Go on "Get it"



About the time I asked Dave "So ahhh, whats the limit on skunks here?" his luck changed. Blaze here retrieving Dave's Bird.






Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Sniper John] #1126035 12/24/09 06:48 AM
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When flushing Snipe they usually first fly straight away then head up corkscrew, make eratic turns, dip and dive, etc. I even saw one do a loop-di-loop once. Then they often will circle back right over or by you. Usually at what seems like a hundred miles a hour. Today they just would not circle back over us. Only this one flock did. I was finished with my limit, so I just stood back with the Camera.

"Hey Dave, I think they are circling back"



"Dave, Dave, behind you, straight up"



This is gonna be good, get ready.



"TAKE EM, TAKE EM"



2nd shot is heard



3rd shot is heard



"What Happened?"



That is how Snipe hunting goes. No shame on the misses. The pictures do not show the speed of the birds. And despite all the birds in the wisp or flock of Snipe flying together, individual birds are darting in different eratic ways and directions within the wisp.

My favorite bird to hunt.








Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Sniper John] #1126066 12/24/09 10:33 AM
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Cool pictures.

No wonder Dave couldn't hear you....

Did he forget to take off the ear muffs after directing planes on the runway at DFW International Airport?

J/K, but earplugs are definitely more stylin.'


Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Moose K] #1126110 12/24/09 01:25 PM
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Looks like fun. Kayl and I had one flush on us when we were looking for a cripple.



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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Charlito] #1126159 12/24/09 02:30 PM
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Great photos and descriptions! Thanks!



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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Charlito] #1126160 12/24/09 02:30 PM
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I tried to get a picture of Blaze bringing back my bird but she was too fast for me.... she dropped it and was giving us a look that said "I brought it over here, what more do you want me to do with that thing?"



She is a funny dog with a lot of personality.

Anyway, the true story of the hunt. Everybody always says "I like your pictures, Sniper John" and let me tell you why he has the best pictures. You go out and hunt, and about 10 minutes later John has a limit and then he takes pictures while you try to scratch your way to some sort of saving-face bag.

Yesterday went like this: After our first slog and a half I wasn't sure we were going to see birds. Then we flushed one. Or two. John brought one down and the whole marsh came alive in front of us. We pushed through the mud and within minutes, no exaggeration, John had 4 in the bag. His first couple birds, I was like, "cool!" and birds were flushing in front of me, too. When he had 3 birds in 3 shots I was really pumped. I saw a few of his birds fall, and kept thinking, man, I hope some birds flush less than 50 yards of me one of these times. But I had done this before and I knew that I would walk up on some tight holding birds sooner or later, or we would walk a different direction and I would have mostly short flushes and he would have mostly long flushes.

Then it happened, a bird came up only 15 yards in front of me. You have to realize these birds fly like 678,243 miles an hour, and spook downwind. So a 15 yard flush is like a 30+ yard shot before your gun even hits your shoulder. But with such a short flush I was super confident. Point, swing, bang, no kidding, the bird that was banking left banked hard right the moment I was pulling the trigger.

John was still 3 birds for 3 shots and I was up to no birds for 3 shots.

No taking away from John's shooting abilities, he dropped some real long stuff too. And I got to see most all of it. Pretty soon he was at 7 birds and we were joking that he would take a limit and I would take nothing. I had screwed in a modified choke at one point. We got to a corner and John took #8, nice, short, puff of feathers, and down. I still had nothing to show for the hunt except an alarmingly large pile of empty hulls in my vest.

And then it happened. There were birds flushing short. I was missing. My confidence started to sink. The wisp flew overhead and John got those amazing pictures as I emptied my gun on air. But I kept walking around zig zagging my way through the mud. Birds started flushing in all directions. My modified pattern was flying by birds, under, over, behind, in front. Shells were coming out of my gun almost as fast as I could put them back in.

I finally connected with a lone bird.

John's last picture above is a limit of snipe with a nice, light double. That's what a good snipe hunt looks like.

My last picture of the day is also what a good snipe hunt looks like, but, it's only one-eighth of a limit:





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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Dave Speer] #1126512 12/24/09 05:06 PM
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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: TexasEd] #1126596 12/24/09 05:31 PM
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Looks like fun, I've been trying to get my snipe gear together...can't find my dang hip waders!


Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: FamousAmos] #1129632 12/26/09 08:38 PM
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Re: 12/23 Snipe Hunt, now the rest of the pictures. [Re: Dave Speer] #1141126 12/31/09 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted By: Long Haired Dave

Anyway, the true story of the hunt. Everybody always says "I like your pictures, Sniper John" and let me tell you why he has the best pictures. You go out and hunt, and about 10 minutes later John has a limit and then he takes pictures while you try to scratch your way to some sort of saving-face bag.


I wanted to add to this. I did not intend to throw Dave under the bus on his shooting. I did get his permission to include his misses in the post. He actually seemed disappointed when he shot the first snipe after so many misses. He knew I had plans of photoshopping a pile of real skunks next to him and posting about me taking a limit of Snipe and him a limit of Skunks.

Everyone has had those days fishing. Like for Crappie where there is one guy in the boat doing everything exactly the same as the other guy in the boat, fishing the same bait, same depth, same structure, same hook, etc. But the other guy gets all the bites and all the fish. It is just fate sometimes. That was Dave this day. No matter witch side in the field he was on in relation to me, the birds just seemed to keep coming up in front of ME. No fault to Dave. In fact I know for a fact he can out shoot me in Sporting Clays. Dave's a great guy, y'all invite him hunting sometime.

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