Originally Posted By: GLS
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.


One of these years, Gil, we are going to trade some time in the Maine grouse woods and in the Georgia snipe swamps. Using 16s, of course.

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