I'm 28 now and I can vividly remember this gag being pulled on me and 4-5 friends when we were about 9-10 years old. I've been laughing out loud reading the responses, i'm glad i wasn't the only gulliable one!!!!
We actually got out an enclopedia and looked it up since we thought he might be yankin our chain, but there it was in black and white. Book said they like low-lying marshy areas and just so happened thats what the field behind their house was.
My friends dad told us about the snipe, said he'd seen lots of them in their back field. That evening they quietly marched us around the edge so as not to disturb them, and got us posted about 10 yds apart on the far end away from the house. He gave us each a brown paper bag, said to hold it on the ground, open, and the snipe would think it's a hole/hiding spot and run in!! Seemed logical to me at the time.
The dad's were supposed to go back around the field and start walking towards us, they would flush the birds right to us they said. LOL, needless to say we stood there with our paper bags for about an hour before we realized we'd been had........
Good Times!!
We actually got out an enclopedia and looked it up since we thought he might be yankin our chain, but there it was in black and white. Book said they like low-lying marshy areas and just so happened thats what the field behind their house was.
My friends dad told us about the snipe, said he'd seen lots of them in their back field. That evening they quietly marched us around the edge so as not to disturb them, and got us posted about 10 yds apart on the far end away from the house. He gave us each a brown paper bag, said to hold it on the ground, open, and the snipe would think it's a hole/hiding spot and run in!! Seemed logical to me at the time.
The dad's were supposed to go back around the field and start walking towards us, they would flush the birds right to us they said. LOL, needless to say we stood there with our paper bags for about an hour before we realized we'd been had........
Good Times!!