Have you heard about the snipe hunter who wrote a bird hunting guidebook? It’s no joke. His name is John Shewey, and he’s the author of the “Wingshooter’s Guide to Oregon,” a straight-shooting primer ...

A new study -- using high speed video and feathers bought on eBay -- shows that when the male snipe sticks out his outer tail feathers, they flutter like flags in the wind, producing a highly ...

Most people have heard of the old "snipe hunt" ruse used to initiate greenhorns to the outdoors. The gag consists of outfitting the nimrod with paper sack and flashlight and then sending the fool into ...

AS WE arrive at the ancient Festival of Imbolc, that time when our ancestors celebrated the near passing of winter and the beginning of spring around what is now the Feast day of St Brigid, February 1 ...

High-speed video has revealed for the first time how male common snipes - a species of wading bird - generate their distinctive drumming mating calls. A team of UK researchers found the birds' tail ...

LITTLE ROCK (AGFC) – If you read all the way to the bottom of news articles about setting of early migratory bird hunting seasons, you saw those names. Woodcock, snipe, rail, gallinule, moorhen. What ...

Last year, I watched my son shoot his first buck during the firearm season. I witnessed covey rises and pheasant flushes. I watched the sun rise on a Missouri River duck hunt and the sun set during ...

In many parts of Pennsylvania, outdoor pranksters still play a joke known as a snipe hunt on naïve newbies. Sometime after sunset the pranksters announce that the group is going on a snipe hunt. Some ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CASPER — His boots squished in the muck as Chris Madsen trudged through the marsh along the edge of a large pond. He stopped and looked around at the ...

You can be had. And then there's what happened to Danny DiPaula and J.R. Bachman at the Pequea Valley Sportsmen Association on a recent night. Yes, one of the oldest pranks of all time - snipe hunting ...