Snipe ahoy in a flat float

I wrote my first article for Shooting Times in the 15-21 March 1984 issue. It dealt with snipe shooting in North America. The article largely pointed out that, while the snipe very likely is the most populous of our gamebirds, very few shooters — as in next to none — go afield for them, and just a few avid wingshooters are even aware of them.

Well, as I write this 37 years later, nothing much has changed. In 1995, I wrote the book Reflections on Snipe. Sales of this book can be termed feeble. However, there was the creation of a web page devoted to snipe hunting a few years ago, thesnipehunter.com How many hunters pull that up to read is open to question.

At least for me, the situation is excellent. Especially in my home state of Oregon, I have almost all the snipe for myself. I shot my first snipe in 1956 and, through all the years, have never encountered another