Ideal gun(s) and load(s) for snipe hunting
 

I have enjoyed snipe hunting over the years but have not been much or very recently due to lack of opportunities and access to good snipe habitat. It looks like that may change this year. What do the snipe hunters out there prefer, as far as gun/load? Thanks for any responses:bigbye:

Dose anybody out there have a pic of a snipe they could post. Up until quite lately I thought snipe were an emaginary bird.

Not a very tough bird to drop... Subgauge guns work nice with #8's or nine's if you can keep the noise down and get fairly close. Google snipe and select pictures. quite a few photographs...BT...

They are small and fast which would make a typical upland bird gun the choice, but then they have a tendency to jump up way ahead of you and present long shots which would indicate a larger gun with tighter chokes. My plan is to split the difference with a 12 or 16 gauge with open chokes and maybe longer barrels.

Here are some photos

https://www.google.com/search?q=snip...w=1093&bih=498

They have many similarities to their cousins the Woodcock. And are related genetically.

That is right.

We have them up here ,great shooting when you can get into them ,and great eating too ...the straight away shots are the hardest to make as they have a zig zag flight pattern end on .

They look really small. Are they smaller than a dove. Are they a costal bird.

They are as small, if not smaller, than a dove. They like cow pastures and old rice fields around here. I am not sure how far inland they go. Very sporty shooting, but not many people hunt them anymore and there are not many places to go to hunt them.