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Old 08-31-2011, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by 39special View Post
When I was in cub scouts the older kids made us hunt snipes when we went to camp.We never found any.I always wondered what they looked like.
Same here. Funny thing is - as I learned later - if camp would have been elsewhere it wouldn't have really been a "snipe hunt" in the common use of the term. Snipes are actually shorebirds - there are a bunch of different species.

Too bad my camp was in the woods of East Texas.

Never realized that it also may have given rise to the term "sniper".

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