Originally Posted By: obsessed-with-doubles
Guys used to decoy snipe, as depicted in this print by A.B. Frost:

http://www.printsoldandrare.com/hunting/239hun.jpg

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Gregg, "snipe" was the broad, collective term used to describe all shorebirds back when they were legally hunted. Wilson Snipe which are legally hunted today don't decoy. Here's a limit from last month. The gun is a 1957 Ithaca M37 20 gauge.