Contrary to popular belief, all you really need for Snipe Hunting is 2 dozen skyhooks and 100 yards of shore line. You can make a great snipe lure out of the line, with maybe a bucket of smoke at the end. Then snag him with the sky hooks. It's kind of like fishing that way...

The most common, and easiest, method of hunting snipes is to get a large pot and a cooking spoon. Then you run around in the snipe's native habitat (the woods, of course) and bang on the pot, thus causing the snipes to think that there is food in the pot, and jump in, trapping themselves. Snipe meat is best eaten raw, with just a little bit of parsely.

Hate to break the fun, but a snipe hunt is something you pull on the gullible. After meeting a trusting soul you wish to tweak a little, invite them to go snipe hunting in the woods. A description of the snipe is necessary here. People usually get the best results claiming them to be a type of bird. For the anal, there is even a species called snipes, but a little embellishment never hurts. Make up some story about how exactly one hunts snipe, complete with equipment. Psk's writeup is one nice example, and they can get very elaborate. Depending on the pacificism of the mark, the goal can be either to kill, capture or merely see the snipe.

Once you've lured the sucker out into the woods, any number of amusing things can be done. You can leap on them from behind trees, or simply have them run after the snipe all night on a wild goose chase ("Look! Can't you see it over there! Go get it!"), or even sneak away leaving them in the forest by themselves. It's a good initiation for newcomers, as long as you keep the pranks harmless.

dragoon's writeup seems to be confusing snipe shooting (from which we have "sniper") with haggis hunting. The confusion is, perhaps, understandable, given that snipe used to be found in Scotland.

However, the massive "ethical" hunting of snipe by the likes of hodgepodge and Psk have driven populations down to near-extinction levels.

In 1996, successful lobbying from the WWTHO yielded the inclusion of the snipe in the endangerous species list. Wales and England ratified the treaty, but under pressure from barley farmer's organisations Scotland did not; parsley growers continue to hunt snipe "for scientific study".