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Snipe hunt

have you been on a snipe hunt

  • I have been on a snipe hunt

    Votes: 17 70.8%

  • I have not been on a snipe hunt

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • I never knew about snipes or hunting them

    Votes: 3 12.5%
  • Total voters
    24
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this morning I became aware that my significant other had not only never been on a snipe hunt but didn't know what it was.

So have you been on a snipe hunt
 
Shot a few in my backyard while drinking Kalua and Cream. Never been on a hunt :laughing
 
that and a left handed smoke shifter.
Cub Scouts were good times.

I went to Camp Cherry Valley on Catalina Island. It was rad.
 
I remember "Baby Shark" as a boy scout campfire song LONG before it was an annoying popular hit song
 
GPzPop said:
I remember "Baby Shark" as a boy scout campfire song LONG before it was an annoying popular hit song
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Please sing a few bars.
 
Butch said:
I went to Camp Cherry Valley on Catalina Island. It was rad.
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I don't like camping, or sleeping in a sleeping bag, but I would go back to Cherry Valley if given the chance. That was an amazing scout camp. I went when my younger son was about 12 or so. He turns 40 next year.

:afm199
 
I was supposed to go when a group of friends invited me, but I went to the submarine races instead.

I hear they didn't find any.

The yellow one didn't win -- so I'm told.
 
Mu grandfather taught me everything I need to know about snipe hunting.
 
Everything I learned about snipe hunting I learned from King of the Hill...
 
Lead many a snipe hunt as Assistant Senior Patrol Leader :laughing
 
first and only time, years ago. didn’t bag a snipe, but i did tackle a 175 pound rat. bagged him. one of my proudest moments. fucker.
 
My earliest camping memory is from when I was 7 or 8 and it was so exciting sleeping in our tents while the grown up men slept in the back of their pickup trucks. I thought they were so cool for doing that and keeping us safe like they were guarding us.

When it got dark we began the snipe hunt. I sort of realized pretty quickly that it might be a gag and not a real hunt but it was really exciting just the same because there was a chance it was real and we might catch something!

The Wiki page described it exactly.

A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch an elusive, nonexistent animal called a snipe. Although snipe are an actual family of birds, a snipe hunt is a quest for an imaginary creature whose description varies.

The target of the prank is led to an outdoor spot and given instructions for catching the snipe; these often include waiting in the dark and holding an empty bag or making noises to attract the creature. The others involved in the prank then leave the newcomer alone in the woods to discover the joke. As an American rite of passage, snipe hunting is often associated with summer camps and groups such as the Boy Scouts. In France, a similar joke is called "hunting the dahut".
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Never been on a Snipe hunt, but this year we went to the Ninja Parade.
Didn't see anything....

Mad
 
Ahhhhh, the proverbial "Snipe Hunt" First hunt was up at Rancho Los Mochos on Mines Road. I seen 'em, they're REAL!!! Never caught one, they're fast, tricky little devils.
 
Oh my poor city kid teenager has never been on a snipe hunt. Think I might be able to get a 15-year-old to try it?
 
Did I start this somehow???

https://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=11034832&postcount=28

How about a high school Snipe hunt, senior year '69.
Got a group together Friday nite, up in Green Valley Highlands, , ,
All the fun stuff with gunny sacks, flashlights, whistles, brush beater sticks, gotta heard them snipes.
I'm riding my 305, and a bunch of cars, trucks, car pooling.
So I hang back with the Harvey sisters, we are trying to stir up a missing persons panic as the cars load up. This fails, no one notices us missing and we are stuck, three on a bike.
I get the bucket, the two sisters without, and head back to town, to Foster's Freeze, for more fun drama
 
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Had never heard of the gag before seeing on a teevee show, I am pretty sure it’s was MASH for some reason or maybe it was Frasier now that I read it in link..
I think of it more nowadays as an abstract term used in bureaucracies where the hapless new employee/intern is sent to gather useless or non-existent data, perhaps to get them off the track of some actual perpretrated fraud or something.
I kind of wonder if it isn’t really the same as wild goose chase in terms of more abstract definition, not counting the actual summer camp version.
 
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