Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-26 | Page 7 | Tricks of the Snipe

TRICKS OF THE SNIPE bird has many methods for aeo li deceiving hunter 1 I have hunted snipe ever since 1 was a boy said dr S H moore and each year I 1 have learned some new trick of this long billed bird of erratic flight fame the possum la a tyro compared with the snipe in its effort to deceive the hunter I 1 was hunting with george moi rison near the gun club s grounds I 1 few days ago and for an hour or more we did not see a snipe or hear a just as we reached the bug gy with the intention of returning to the city a snipe rose a few feet away from the ground over which we had tramped A second later another got up and began its quick tortuous flight skyward we bagged both with snap shots the ards seemingly had laid low in tufts ot grass watching our move ments and supposed themselves saffa when they saw us preparing to depart mr morrison Morr lson and I 1 started back ove the ground we had hunted kicking each bunch of grass and dry weeds as we went along and in halt an hour we had raised a dozen snipe and killed most of them occasionally when we missed kicking a bunch of weeds a snipe would rise behind us dart along the surface of the ground and then suddenly move upward in corkscrew like gyrations the only thing akin to foolishness of which a snipe might be accused is its misjudgment of the distance a modern choke bore gun will carry it has a score of cunning tricks ot flight as well as the possum like trick I 1 have just mentioned indianapolis news