Check it OUT!!

layoutshooter · Mar 21, 2009

Hey everyone, check out the new forum on the Sports Page, Woods and Waters!!!

Here we can talk about hunting, fishing, mushroom hunting or almost anything else you can do in the great outdoors. Together we share ideas on how to kill long layovers fishing or what ever. We can exchange fish and game receipes or arrange swap hunts or fishing trips. Only the open sky is the limit!!! Come on, JOIN in the fun!!!

Don't enjoy the outdoors? No problem, that is EASY to cure!!!

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Doggie Daddy · Mar 21, 2009

Are snipe hunters allowed?

layoutshooter · Mar 21, 2009

Of course!!! Snipe are VERY hard to hit!! I used to hunt them in England when I lived there. I got itty bitty tiny breast fillets and would sell the feathers to local sporting goods shops for fly tying feathers. !! Layoutshooter

Doggie Daddy · Mar 21, 2009

You mean there really is such a thing as a snipe? And all these years I thought that I had been tricked into hunting for a fictional creature.

layoutshooter · Mar 21, 2009

Yes there is such a bird. It is a small shore bird with a very long beak. See picture below. This is a common snipe. There are about 20 different sub-species. Layoutshooter

layoutshooter · Mar 21, 2009

This is the kind of fun we can all have at Woods and Waters!! Be sure to join in from time to time!!!! OH the things you can learn!!!!

Layoutshooter

inkasnana · Mar 21, 2009

Wow.. I thought snipe were fictional also. Us country kids used to have a great time taking "city" kids on a snipe hunt in the middle of the night. Who knew they were real! lol

I posted about Morel mushroom hunting on the new forum.

layoutshooter · Mar 21, 2009

Yes, thank you. We really want to use the new forum a lot. It will be sooo much fun!! Layoutshooter

pjjjjj · Mar 21, 2009

How could you even *think* of shooting a cute little bird like that?? And what kinda meat would come off of something that little anyway??

layoutshooter · Mar 21, 2009

There is meat on the breasts as with most birds. Cute is not relevent to food value or flavor. If cute was an issue on killing for food mankind would have died out years ago. The amount I was paid for the feathers paid for my shells, which cost a lot. I had to use many shells to hit just one. They are very hard to hit. We have seasons on several members of the snipe family in North America. They are not hunted much here. That type of hunting has gone out of style. There are still some snipe hunters in coastal areas and still some left in Michigan. I don't know much else. Layoutshooter

mjolnir131 · Mar 22, 2009

layoutshooter said:
There is meat on the breasts as with most birds. Cute is not relevent to food value or flavor. If cute was an issue on killing for food mankind would have died out years ago. The amount I was paid for the feathers paid for my shells, which cost a lot. I had to use many shells to hit just one. They are very hard to hit. We have seasons on several members of the snipe family in North America. They are not hunted much here. That type of hunting has gone out of style. There are still some snipe hunters in coastal areas and still some left in Michigan. I don't know much else. Layoutshooter

I blame Walt Disney's Bambi-effect

layoutshooter · Mar 22, 2009

That is part of it. Most people know little about the "Bambi" story. It is a old German story about political oppression. The deer that "Bambi" was is not native to North America. It is native to Europe. They are closely related to Elk but smaller. Thier antlers are shapped like Elk antlers.

The other problem is that people no longer "live on the land"
We have become so far removed from nature that many no how no idea where food even comes from. I am not saying that about anyone in particular but I have known people that did not know where meat came from or that potatos came out of the ground!! Shoot, my wife once worked with a real "nature genius". That women thought that animals had a MEAT SYSTEM. Like the nervous system, respritory system etc. She could not and would not believe that when you eat meat you are eating mussel. No wonder this nation is messed up.

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highway star · Mar 23, 2009

When my ex and I moved up north, we bought a small, 40 acre "gentlemans" farm. I didn't do much of any actual farming. The ex had a couple horses and we let the neighbors hay it. I did buy a couple of charlioux(sp?) steers to finish and butcher. We took a half and other friends took the rest. My sons knew where meat came from long before we ever moved up there and were involved in naming the pair. We decided on Lunch for one and Dinner for the other. We even had pictures of them on the fridge with the names.

We had friends come up to visit with their son, who was in the same age range as our boys, around 8 or 9. They mentioned that he didn't know where meat came from. I told them I thought this would be a good opportunity to educate him, but for some reason they felt that protecting him from such a harsh reality was better. Well, we forget to take the pictures off the fridge and the wife freaked. I don't think the kid saw them, but she got pretty upset. I never got a good answer as to why they thought keeping it from him would be better.

layoutshooter · Mar 23, 2009

They are wacko? Not explaining life as it is to a child is just plain stupid, and we wonder why things are so screwed up. Layoutshooter

inkasnana · Mar 23, 2009

They must be "city folks" because most all "country kids" know the "real" story from a very young age. I grew up a country girl and my cousins and I used to have a great time freaking out and playing pranks on our city friends. It was especially fun to invite them over for sleep-overs and then take them out snipe hunting in the woods in the middle of the night, or to have them help skin and gut a rabbit. Watching them try to carefully pick their way across the swamp without getting down and dirty was also fun.

layoutshooter · Mar 23, 2009

I am going to tell on myself!! When we were kids we spent the entire summer building and playing in a two story log fort. It was about 10'x10' and about 8' high. Great fun!! We notched the logs and everything!! We were so proud of our work. WELL, just before school a troop of "City Slicker" boy scouts went on thier big bad camping trip in the woods where our fort was. They tore it down to use the logs for fires and staking off thier tents. We were HOT!!! Then these "explorers" put candles up to mark a trail back to thier camp so thier "mommies and daddies" could come visit thier site that night. The candles were placed in cut out tin cans and tacked to the trees. WELL, we took down a bunch of them and re-routed them so the "mommies and daddies" fell into a pond rather than finding the camp. What a HOOT!! Screams!!! Crying!! Cussing!! People running around lost!!! Wet clothes!!! We laughed so hard we were crying!! The "Slickers" NEVER showed up in our woods again!!!! Layoutshooter

OntarioVanMan · Mar 23, 2009

I was so embarrassed when some 10 year old in Rapid City in Cabelas , set forth to educate me on the differences between a bolt action and single shot rifle!! I think they hired the kid!*LOL*