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jap gt · 2015-10-02 10:02:17

Anyone starting to meet snipe, i have noticed a few scattered in the last few days

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02-10-2015 10:02am

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Anyone starting to meet snipe, i have noticed a few scattered in the last few days

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#2 02-10-2015 11:34am

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jap gt wrote: »

Anyone starting to meet snipe, i have noticed a few scattered in the last few days

I saw a good few on opening day, none since.

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#3 02-10-2015 12:18pm

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Seeing some in the Meath area, but in isolated sightings

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#4 06-10-2015 9:38am

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ya I am meeting them in swamps in galway

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#5 08-10-2015 7:44am

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ya meeting them out walking the dog every day.

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#6 11-10-2015 6:41pm

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Met 10 plus today in boggy ground, nothing there last weekend.

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#7 11-10-2015 7:05pm

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jap gt wrote: »

Anyone starting to meet snipe, i have noticed a few scattered in the last few days

Meeting the most iv'e met in years.

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#8 11-10-2015 9:12pm

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Setter worked 4 today none there last week Tipp south

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#9 13-10-2015 10:53pm

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Flushed a few snipe on my place in the West last week. Numbers should start building up from now on as cold weather is starting to dig into Eastern Europe. Will push woodcock our way too!!

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#10 16-10-2015 7:37pm

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Out after a duck this evenin put 7 snipe up on the way to the pond . While wanting 2 woodcock few over me . And not a duck to be seen

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#11 17-10-2015 12:15am

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merv35 wrote: »

Out after a duck this evenin put 7 snipe up on the way to the pond . While wanting 2 woodcock few over me . And not a duck to be seen

Talking to few lads yestertoday and they were telling me that on some of their permsissions many of the wet areas which would usually bring in duck have totally dried up. I think things will improve generally if/when we get some decent autumnal rains.

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#12 18-10-2015 8:28pm

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Seen a few this morning but not as many as last year. Might be early???

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#13 26-10-2015 1:25pm

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Plenty of Snipe in my area, I shot three two weeks ago, first time I have shot three in one outing in my life...That means the numbers are big because I am a bad shot, and even worse at Snipe!!

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#14 29-10-2015 12:47am

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Thedeerstalker wrote: »

Plenty of Snipe in my area, I shot three two weeks ago, first time I have shot three in one outing in my life...That means the numbers are big because I am a bad shot, and even worse at Snipe!!

Snipe arent in season till the 1st?

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#15 29-10-2015 1:06am

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1shot16 wrote: »

Snipe arent in season till the 1st?

September - Countryside Alliance Ireland Seasons

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#16 29-10-2015 6:26pm

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Seen 11 this morning in a small area. Went to another area where there were loads last year and seen none today.

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#17 01-11-2015 8:53pm

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Rose about 12 today

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#18 02-11-2015 9:13am

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They seem to completely vanished from our hunting grounds.

One field in particular was very wet and marshy, proving difficult to hunt due to being uneven and your welly sinking with every step. It was hard to watch the dog as you spent most of the time watching every step you took.

The plus side - and the reason we hunted there - was it was full of snipe. Every step you took you'd here two or three rising.

None there now.

No idea why.

It's still wet and not overhunted...most fellows avoided it due to difficult terrain.

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#19 02-11-2015 9:41am

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Lifted 5 yesterday with no dog just 2 of us walking. Didn't take a shot because I won't eat them but good to see all the same

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#20 03-11-2015 10:42pm

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aaakev wrote: »

Lifted 5 yesterday with no dog just 2 of us walking. Didn't take a shot because I won't eat them but good to see all the same

The lads beside me should take a leaf from your book.

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#21 03-11-2015 11:06pm

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1shot16 wrote: »

Snipe arent in season till the 1st?

All seasons can be found here.

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#22 14-11-2015 8:56pm

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Seen a lot this morning on flooded rushy fields

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