Snipe

moose112

So anyone seeing any in your area, been out to a few spots that are usually full of them but aint seen one yet.

dwighet

shouldnt be long now...Im going out this weekend for a good look for some around my area....Cant get enough of snipe shooting..Great sport.

4gun

loads already down on my patch, plenty wet grass:D

moose112

4gun wrote: »

loads already down on my patch, plenty wet grass:D

Your making me sick love going after them

mallards

Went out for an hour on Saturday and only rose one. But it won't be too long before they are here in numbers!





and last day of last season.




Mallards

stevoman

looking forward to it myself so i am. just have to try and get that damn setter of mine steady!

sfakiaman

Haven't seen any yet and am usually tripping over them.

bunny shooter

Snipe are my favourite game shooting. Don't usually start shooting them till November by which time the 'visitors' have usually arrived in decent numbers

Lads anyone ever meet jack snipe? I only ever shot one and that was a good few years ago.

ayapatrick

bunny shooter wrote: »

Snipe are my favourite game shooting. Don't usually start shooting them till November by which time the 'visitors' have usually arrived in decent numbers

Lads anyone ever meet jack snipe? I only ever shot one and that was a good few years ago.

ya got a jack snipe two seasons ago! small wee fella!

stevoman

bunny shooter wrote: »

Snipe are my favourite game shooting. Don't usually start shooting them till November by which time the 'visitors' have usually arrived in decent numbers

Lads anyone ever meet jack snipe? I only ever shot one and that was a good few years ago.

got one myself last season. come across them a lot but never usually fire on them beleive it or not you can distinguish them in flight.

mac80

Saw some today in louth. Always see lods of them in winter in the Ballybay area

Mac

4gun

moose112 wrote: »

Your making me sick love going after them

I hate the little b**tards I'd use dynamite on em if I could:D..... well thas only because they are sooo...f**kin hard to hit with a shot gun:D not a mind trying to shoot them:D:D

mallards

bunny shooter wrote: »

Lads anyone ever meet jack snipe? I only ever shot one and that was a good few years ago.

I always see loads of them. I usually give them safe passage but occasionally one gets up like a common snipe and it's too late. Still good eating though a little small!



Mallards

cavan shooter

Nice side by side mallards what type is it??

bunny shooter

stevoman wrote: »

.............beleive it or not you can distinguish them in flight.

They fly and land within a small distance if I remember rightly whereas the common flies farther and faster and of course does the 'zig zag'

mallards

It's my trusty ugartechea. The first gun I ever bought and I still have it. It's my first choice on a wet rough shooting day!

Mallards.

ronn

What no. cartridge would you use on these wee chaps, persume a 6/7 be a bit heavy for them..?

dwighet

ronn wrote: »

What no. cartridge would you use on these wee chaps, persume a 6/7 be a bit heavy for them..?

I use 7`s

gripp

8/9 i find the best for them with improved/quater choke

moose112

I have always used 7's

One spot in particular is good for a few jack snipe but none yet:(

ayapatrick

gripp wrote: »

8/9 i find the best for them with improved/quater choke

was using 32g 10's last year and i found that the front skin of their chests used be blown of when i shot them. got it with the woodwcock as well.gonn use 7s this year for all my game!

stevoman

i'l be using 7's meself this year. fiocchi are a good cartridge so they are. im going to wait for some rain and head up the bog with the setter after the next rainfall to see if any are stirring

dwighet

I went out yesterday.After reading this thread it gave me a bit of get up and go...I met a good few snipe but they were on to me..there wasnt a breath of wind to hide the sound of the wellies squelching through the sloppy bog...
I know there there just need a good wind to get in range of em.

moose112

stevoman wrote: »

i'l be using 7's meself this year. fiocchi are a good cartridge so they are. im going to wait for some rain and head up the bog with the setter after the next rainfall to see if any are stirring

Went out with a dog after snipe once and never again found they drove the poor dog mad, with the sheer numbers she was rising.
I just go out on my own and have never had a problem rising them.

I always say they are great for lads new to the sport who don't have dogs yet and they will def test them:D

stevoman

moose112 wrote: »

Went out with a dog after snipe once and never again found they drove the poor dog mad, with the sheer numbers she was rising.
I just go out on my own and have never had a problem rising them.

I always say they are great for lads new to the sport who don't have dogs yet and they will def test them:D

very true. personally though i would be delighted if my dog was rock steady on them. after the first two weeks of november i will hunt them and woodcock and nothing else. i find the whole hunt and scenery of it delightful and you'l always get a shot.

last year i found she was running in on them all and it was very frustrating so it was. i hope its not the same this year, i really really do.

i pluck them and clean them out and freeze them. when i have 4 or 5 of them i cook them togther and have a nice dinner.

flanum

I take it ye know the season starts oct 1st?

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1977/en/si/0243.html

Snipe From the 1st day of October, 1977, to the 31st day of January, 1978, both days inclusive.
Woodcock From the 1st day of October, 1977, to the 31st day of January, 1978, both days inclusive.

J.R.

That season was in 1977


Snipe & Jack snipe are now the same season as duck ........Sept 1st to Jan 31st

Woodcock are the same as Pheasant, Red -Legged Partridge and pigeon!!!........Nov 1st to Jan 31st

marlin vs

flanum wrote: »

I take it ye know the season starts oct 1st?

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1977/en/si/0243.html

Snipe From the 1st day of October, 1977, to the 31st day of January, 1978, both days inclusive.
Woodcock From the 1st day of October, 1977, to the 31st day of January, 1978, both days inclusive.

It never ceases to make me wonder, how so many people don't know the proper hunting seasons.
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4gun

marlin vs wrote: »

It never ceases to make me wonder, how so many people don't know the proper hunting seasons.
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Does that mean I can crack open the dynamite:D

Mellor

flanum wrote: »

I take it ye know the season starts oct 1st?

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1977/en/si/0243.html

Snipe From the 1st day of October, 1977, to the 31st day of January, 1978, both days inclusive.
Woodcock From the 1st day of October, 1977, to the 31st day of January, 1978, both days inclusive.

How is this still happening?

The site you went to also contains the current seasons.

The part you quoted clearly says it expires on 1978



This happens every year, I wouldn't mind but even if it was in the stickies too, it wouldn't be read

stevoman

Mellor wrote: »

How is this still happening?

The site you went to also contains the current seasons.

The part you quoted clearly says it expires on 1978



This happens every year, I wouldn't mind but even if it was in the stickies too, it wouldn't be read

Im aware they open at sept 1st, but i wouldnt bother huntign them until nov 1st personally.

touchyie

moose112 wrote: »

Went out with a dog after snipe once and never again found they drove the poor dog mad, with the sheer numbers she was rising.
I just go out on my own and have never had a problem rising them.

I always say they are great for lads new to the sport who don't have dogs yet and they will def test them:D

Definately agree, I was new to it last year and I had no dog of my own so when I was shooting by myself if was snipe. I tell ya they are fast, if can hit snipe the rest becomes easy!!!!:D

touchyie

stevoman wrote: »

very true. personally though i would be delighted if my dog was rock steady on them. after the first two weeks of november i will hunt them and woodcock and nothing else. i find the whole hunt and scenery of it delightful and you'l always get a shot.

last year i found she was running in on them all and it was very frustrating so it was. i hope its not the same this year, i really really do.

i pluck them and clean them out and freeze them. when i have 4 or 5 of them i cook them togther and have a nice dinner.

i read somewhere that the recommened way for cooking snipe is not to gut them, just pluck them, fold there head back and skewer them with there own beak, then bang them in the oven..... never tried it myself
have had a half dozen pan fried breasts and some pepper sauce with fried spuds..... mmmmmmmm think i'll go shooting:D

pedroeibar

marlin vs wrote: »

It never ceases to make me wonder, how so many people don't know the proper hunting seasons.
[IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/93778/66466.doc"]NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE 2008-2009 SHOOTING SEASONS.doc[/URL][/img]

Easy to infer from that notice from the placing of the word "same" that there is no season for deer in Kerry!
P.

pedroeibar

touchyie wrote: »

i read somewhere that the recommened way for cooking snipe is not to gut them, just pluck them, fold there head back and skewer them with there own beak, then bang them in the oven..... never tried it myself
have had a half dozen pan fried breasts and some pepper sauce with fried spuds..... mmmmmmmm think i'll go shooting:D

That is the Victorian way of doing it. Not very pleasant. The French pluck them (and woodcock) and roast them, spreading the trail on a slice of toast on which the cooked bird sits. Worse.

I usually skin and clean them and use them in a game pie with leftover pheasant, pigeon breasts, whatever, etc.
Use No.9 shot. No.7 is too heavy and pattern is not really dense enough for long shots.
P.

stevoman

touchyie wrote: »

i read somewhere that the recommened way for cooking snipe is not to gut them, just pluck them, fold there head back and skewer them with there own beak, then bang them in the oven..... never tried it myself
have had a half dozen pan fried breasts and some pepper sauce with fried spuds..... mmmmmmmm think i'll go shooting:D

cooked this way whenever i dont freeze them. just pluck them and cook them leaving the innnards in them. from experience its perfect and makes no difference to the meat whatsoever as the innards are so small and full of "muck" anyway. you only ever eat the breasts off them anyway as they are so small. i have often checked the innards in them after i have eaten them and they just shrink. try it some time. very traditional!

touchyie

stevoman wrote: »

cooked this way whenever i dont freeze them. just pluck them and cook them leaving the innnards in them. from experience its perfect and makes no difference to the meat whatsoever as the innards are so small and full of "muck" anyway. you only ever eat the breasts off them anyway as they are so small. i have often checked the innards in them after i have eaten them and they just shrink. try it some time. very traditional!

Will try it tonight or tomorrow just back from a quick shot...... lovely mallard 2 snipe and 1 crow all in 20 mins!!!:D

stevoman

touchyie wrote: »

Will try it tonight or tomorrow just back from a quick shot...... lovely mallard 2 snipe and 1 crow all in 20 mins!!!:D

well done. give it a shot and see what you think of them. try this way off cooking the duck.

pluck it (of course) when you are going to cook it smear butter all over the outside of it and put salt and pepper on the outside aswell. smear butter on the inside of it aswell. cut up a cooking apple and put it in the inside of the duck.

here the important part - preheat oven to 190 and then put the duck on a baking tray in it for exactly 1 hour and no more!!!! might not seem long but it cooks so hot and fast that the meat is perfectly tender when you take it out.! use the juices that flow onto the tray and put them into your gravy and make sure to eat the skin!

have the snipe as a side. pluck and leave in innards. wrap a rasher around the snipe (optional) and cook at the same heat for 20 minutes.

let me know what it tastes like.

EastTyrone

if you dont have a dog are they easy to retrieve yourself?

flanum

Apologies re the date.. anyways i wouldnt be headin out ill nov or so anyways.

mallards

EastTyrone wrote: »

if you dont have a dog are they easy to retrieve yourself?

I have a few friends who just walk up their snipe. They say the trick is when one get up, shoot it and don't take your eyes of where it lands. If the vegatation is a little tall then drop your hat where you took the shot then look for your bird. Don't be tempted to take another flushing bird until you get that one. If its a woundy they have a habit of diving right down into the bottom of rushes etc and unless you have it well marked you won't find it without a dog. Even then they are difficult.

Mallards

EastTyrone

mallards wrote: »

I have a few friends who just walk up their snipe. They say the trick is when one get up, shoot it and don't take your eyes of where it lands. If the vegatation is a little tall then drop your hat where you took the shot then look for your bird. Don't be tempted to take another flushing bird until you get that one. If its a woundy they have a habit of diving right down into the bottom of rushes etc and unless you have it well marked you won't find it without a dog. Even then they are difficult.

Mallards

thanks mallards, I have a dvd rough shooting and wildfowling in ireland and they flush and retrieve without a dog and they did it ok, might try this later on in the year as ive flushed snipe inh areas alst year and ive bene told migratory birds return to the same place every year, would migratory snipe come in with the frost like woodcock do?

mallards

On my ground at least, I found a heavy frost to drive them on elsewhere. Maybe their beak isn't as strong as a woodcock. Then again woodcock can feed under bushes and little strips of forest where the ground isn't frozen. I've only seen snipe on more open ground and if this freezes over they are gone to find the shores of open water.

stevoman

mallards wrote: »

Went out for an hour on Saturday and only rose one. But it won't be too long before they are here in numbers!





and last day of last season.




Mallards

mallards what type of game bag is that you have if you dont mind my asking?

mallards

I got in Barcelona three years ago in October I think in a place called El corte ingles its' like a cheap Brown Thomas. The missus loved walking round shopping for clothes while I died and went to heaven in their hunting department! If I remember correctly it was only 40 euro. They had a load of stuff. I got a friend who went last year to pick me another one up which I gave as a gift to someone. It's marked C32 on the front and is made of thick leather.




Mallards

stevoman

mallards wrote: »

I got in Barcelona three years ago in October I think in a place called El corte ingles its' like a cheap Brown Thomas. The missus loved walking round shopping for clothes while I died and went to heaven in their hunting department! If I remember correctly it was only 40 euro. They had a load of stuff. I got a friend who went last year to pick me another one up which I gave as a gift to someone. It's marked C32 on the front and is made of thick leather.



Mallards

its a fantastic gamebag. im in the market for one myself this year. its is big? i never usually hunted with a game bag but they seem to be a good idea. how do you find hunting with one, are they awkward for say getting though cover and over fences or are the better suited for open ground hunting.

there is nothing as bag though as carrying a pheasent or stuffing snipe into your pocket. i usually bring a piece of twine but that gets unfortable also.

mallards

It not too big. I got three cock pheasants in it last year, a partridge in the net on the front and two snipe hung from the strap attached under the net. That was a great day now thinking back on it! I wear it on the opposite side that I shoot from so it doesn't interrupt mounting the gun. Because the flap at the front covers the net I don't have a problem with it snagging. Whatever they treated the leather with is very good as its been ringing wet at times and never rotted. I would agree with you about it being a good bag as I haven't seen one better.


Mallards

EPointer=Birdss

Has the shop where you got it a website Mallards?

stevoman

i tried the link. they dont seem to have them in the online store. :mad: damn. would have purchased one of those.

EPointer=Birdss

mallards wrote: »

It not too big. I got three cock pheasants in it last year, a partridge in the net on the front and two snipe hung from the strap attached under the net. That was a great day now thinking back on it!


Mallards

Story worth tellin me thinks....

mallards

No there on line store isnt great, but trust me they have a lot more in the actual store. Im afraid, like I had to do, you will need a kind friend to pick one up when they are over there on holidays these next few months. I think they are a chain and are all over Spain.
Stevoman I will but Im for the ducks at dawn tomorrow and I need my beauty sleep!:rolleyes: