Reflections on Snipe - Hardcover

Mathewson, Worth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892726164 ISBN 13: 9780892726165

Publisher: Down East Books, 2003

Reflections on Snipe is a delightful compendium of information on snipe behavior and habitats; gunning history; stories from the field; and the pleasures of hunting with good companions, whether human or canine.

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About the Author:

Worth Mathewson has written articles for more than 40 magazines over the past 30 years. He has successfully hunted all the native upland and shore birds in the US and Canada. Aside from bird hunting, he enjoys collecting Confederate postage stamps, fly fishing, trapping, rebuilding old motorcars, and brewing ales and porters. He lives in Oregon.

Eldridge Hardy's art is well known to sportmen and collectors of sporting art. An avid sportsman, his art appears frequently in such sporting magazines as Double Gun Journal, Sporting Classics, Gray's Sporting Journal, Shooting Sportsman, and others. His drawings and paintings have also enhanced many books. He lives in Colorado.

"Over the years I have found it interesting, when discussing snipe with other hunters who actually pursue them, that almost to the man they can recall their first snipe....

"My hunting walkabout began by following a stream from the school grounds to a marsh where I'd cross to another stream, follow it up for a meandering half mile or so before cutting back over a pasture and a field to the first stream. One day while crossing the pasture, I flushed a bird from directly underfoot. Not only did it startle me with its rasping cry, the grass was so closely grazed, the bird seemed to pop out of nowhere. I took another step, and another bird magically appeared and flew away as swiftly and erratically as the first. By the time two more birds were gone, I realized they were snipe and in season as well -- although I never imagined I might have an opportunity to shoot such unusual quarry in New Jersey."

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