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Solid Red Grouse from Gods Country In the Upper Penn of Michigan..

All of these pictures are from last year. I still have two weeks before I get to shoot snipe again.

Skip

Snipehunter, you have some nice guns and a cool duckboat. What kind of boat is it? I'm trying to figure out the terrain you are hunting; flooded pasture, river marsh or salt-marsh? You don't often see a sora rail in the typical bag. I hope the shot of the big gator was from a boat and not where you and that setter were wading...Geo

We can shoot rails from the first of September through the middle of November. There are a couple of weeks when the season is concurrent with snipe season. I don't shoot soras once snipe season is open but I will take a couple beforehand while scouting. I most often shoot shallow, natural lakes but occasionally I will hunt a pasture with standing water. The boat was made by Blue Star. They were in business from 1950 until the early to mid 60's. It is currently primed and waiting for a new coat of paint that will be applied sometime in the next few days.

Skip

You guys see which gun is doing all the 'work' for Skip don't ya???
Yes Sir it's the old Ithaca Flues!!

I shot that Flues twice last season, on opening day of dove season and one day for snipe. It is my only twelve gauge double gun. I got it last year for no particular reason other than a three hundred dollar price tag. I shot it those two days basically to make sure it went "bang" when I pulled the trigger. One odd thing I do is rotate gauges each season. Last year was a twenty gauge year. The year before that I shot sixteens. This year will be twenty-eights and smaller. There is one cheap Spanish gun by Jose Uriguen and a Sterlingworth in the pictures. They are twenty gauge guns I bought last year and I shot them more than anything else. The four-ten I used only for soras and the Grulla only got shot three or four days. The L.C. Smith was also new last year. It is a sixteen gauge and it only got used one day to test it for function. Two of the birds in the bag that day were a right and a left. It won't get shot again until the 2010-11 season.

When I hunt ducks and snipe on the same day I shoot the twenty gauge 101 below for the snipe. In Florida if you are hunting waterfowl you can't have any lead in your possession. That is the only gun I feel comfortable shooting steel through and I won't do that any more than I have to. Even going back to my vehicle at the landing and switching guns and shells wouldn't make me legal.

















Each year we have a "Snipe Rally" during the season. For the last couple of years we have been giving a bird strap to one of the attendees or the host. Don't let the looks of that motley crew fool ya, there are some guys in that group that know how to shoot birds.

My son Austin and Brotherinlaw Jeremy shooting behind a teal last weekend. They ended up getting him. The rest are from years past. Ill be taking a couple of boys hunting on our youth pheasant opener on Sunday.

Adam who are those two beautiful young ladies you're posing with in that picture???

Great pics. Would be real helpful and much easier to view if they were sized to fit the screen.

One more pic, woodcocks and Ideal