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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us have heard the age-old story about going out on a “snipe hunt,” a rite of passage meant to be a joke. Here’s how it typically works: The snipe hunt leaders give the unsuspecting victim a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Believe it or not, ...

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 ...

Last week, Sundaravel Palanivelu was in perplexity over a snipe. He was not sure what to call it — common or pintail. Studying the markers from a photo he had clicked of the migratory snipe, he was up ...