FASTEST Bird in the MARSH! Florida Snipe Hunting (Catch Clean Cook)

[Music] that was there we [Music] go sometimes we don't know how to cook though we're going to show you guys how we cook we're not going to teach you guys how to cook oh all righty guys well what's up guys we are uh in a complete change of scenery today I figured we'd come out here on uh in the freshwater marshes and we'd have a little fun today it is incredibly windy today uh it's actually it's sunny right now but it was overcast earlier it looked like it was going to rain but it's it's pretty ugly weather today so I figured we'd uh come out here have some fun and uh just maybe take a break on fishing for today so change of scenery I have been learning a whole lot about water foul hunting uh duck hunting snipe hunting uh over this this season and uh I started last year and I really got into it this year learned a lot about duck hunting uh and and then snipe as well and today we are going to be snipe hunting so if you guys know nothing about snipe hunting they are a very cool bird very pretty PR bird uh but it's a little bit different than duck hunting where you're waiting for the Ducks to come to you in duck hunting and snipe hunting we're going to walk these uh these muddy marshy wet areas and we're going to flush them up basically you walk they hear you they pop up they go to fly away and uh you try your best at shooting them they are extremely fast and with this wind today it is going to be incredibly challenging so I'm excited but uh I'm going to try to not do too much talking we're to get into it here we'll see how it goes I'll tell you more about Snipes as we go throughout the day and hopefully we have some fun hopefully we knock them down let's go do it all right that didn't take long at all spooked one up I missed him though if you guys can see there he was to my right I probably waited a whole second too long to pull the trigger they pop up fast they fly fast so check that out ah he spooked up another one too try to pick up my shells pick up everyone I shoot that was him all right we got one I see him right there he's actually in the water which typically with these snipe they're really hard to see when you shoot him so I can see him so I'm just going to be ready for another one here they've been stacked right here there we go that's two starting to figure him out one PR snip right there it's windy that's one the other one's right here oh man is it windy all right we're loaded three in there I'm going stuff these two snipe right here in my pocket and I think we should be able to get some more right here oh I just spooked them I just spooked up dude they are stacked right there ho smoked him I got two see if I can grab my shells here that I just shot I knocked out two now I just got to find them oh my God this field couldn't be more loaded now most people say keep your eyes on the bird that you've shot so you don't lose them which is what I'm doing but I did take two there so I really got to focus up here to make sure I locate both of those birds all right well there's one of them there just found them that means this one landed right here the other one's back right in here somewhere man that is hard to see beautiful snipe found him he was right there under those bushes under that grass there I could I mean dude he was hard to see just barely caught my eye all right so I got four birds and uh I got three shells left on me so I'm going to work this area right here I mean they were stacked and then if I shoot these three shells or water if I gret another bird I'm going to have to go back to the boat here to drop these these birds off and grab some more shells and I'll probably move the boat out and around to right here cuz dude they were loaded I'll take that one it's number five see we can always have another one poping right here so I got to be ready got him all right in the mud there ah that was a nice one didn't really feel like I had a good shot on him went way up about that way ah oh that was one of the closest shots I had of the day and I was high twice all right I'm out of shells got five Birds I can't find those two shells I just shot where' they go oh here they are oh that sucks I know I'm going to see quite a few more birds between here and the ginu out there oh these are four shot by the way 3 in 1 and8 o four shot they're a little heavy for this probably not necessary but it's what I had left over as after duck season these are Winchester experts uh water fou and they are steel shot man I want to find one more shell in my pocket here I don't think I have one though I am empty I got to just walk back H well at least we got five Birds well guys I have made it back to the boat now we have I'm very confused and a bit frustrated I have four snipe that I just pulled out of my pocket but I'm almost positive I shot five so now I'm asking myself am I crazy or is there something I'm missing here so I'm almost positive I shot five and I must have had all five in my pocket and I might have bent down to pick up a shell or something and one fell out so what don't to do right now is retrace my steps and see if I can recover that snipe that's really unfortunate because I had a Pockets full of shells and or empty shells and snipe and somehow I came back with one less snipe but I know I shot five I'm almost positive uh so I'm going to retrace my steps I kind of have an idea where I think I where I think I might have fell out I'm going to recircle the boat over to uh a little bit closer and then I'm going to work that area again and see if I can find that snip but they're nice they're real nice we got on pretty good there but uh I got to find that fifth one cuz I feel really bad right now if I I left him somewhere I can't shoot that one I can't lose this one somewhere in here this one's going to be real tricky to find oh there he is not too bad there we go all right let's keep walking here ah that one beat me it's going to go land way out over there woo there we go that was a good shot you can see him pretty good so I'm going to be really ready for another bird to pop up here all righty all right beautiful beautiful bird looks pretty juicy got him I knew it looked good let's go find this bird I knew that bottom looked good there he [Music] is that's number seven well doing my best to pick up every single shell today any garbage I see as well unfortunately I don't think I'm going to be able to recover that one that just disappeared on me maybe I'll be able to look back on the video footage and see where he might have where I might have lost him at but right now we got seven so we're one down of our limit all right all right guys well I just took a good 20 minute break here I don't something about walking through three four inches of mud I mean that really wears you out it was it was getting pretty hot there for a minute it had to been 83 84° out here but here is our beautiful snipe they are really really cool Birds once again delicious and they have this really neat looking uh guess you call it a beak there but uh easy to determine what's a snipe especially uh you know when you flush them up because of this big pointy beak they're very distinct looking birds and uh they fly very differently than every other bird I see out here uh in my opinion they are very very erratic left right up down with the wind and uh when they hop up when you spook them and flush them they go straight up in the air and then you got there's there's no guessing which direction they're going to go but we got them pretty good today so that being said I only decided to I'm going to leave here with seven I know for I'm almost 99% positive I shot eight and recovered eight and somehow some way out in the field I one slipped out of my pocket because I only got back to the boat with a total of seven today so I don't think it would be fair for me to go out and shoot another one to get my limit because technically I already did I don't think it's fair to the snipe and I think I'd be pushing the rules a little bit there so unfortunate definitely learn your lesson uh you learn things every single time whether it's fishing or hunting anything you learn every single day and I think today I learned I probably need something a little bit better like some sort of pack or bag when I'm out here so I can put them in I was just putting them in this big pocket here and with shells and stuff like that I can I can see I think what happened is I bent down to pick up uh a spent shell that was on the ground and he must have slipped out of my pocket at some point at least that's what I'm guessing it's as of right now I have no clue where that bird might have went and I searched and searched this area for a good amount of the time today couldn't couldn't find it it would be like I'd be more likely to win the lottery than I would be to finding one of these guys in the grass or the the mud or whatever it it may be because they blend in incredibly incredibly well so enough talking Let's uh back up out of this mud and uh head back to the ramp with our Birds we did pretty good we also didn't shoot that many shells I think I probably only shot 24 so to kill eight birds with 24 shells that's that's pretty good shooting for me today I I was really impressed with my myself well let's go back to the ramp let's do it all right guys well we are back at the house now and I'm actually out here with my wife Maggie and we are in the garden look one how pretty harvesting yeah check that out wait is that that's not a carrot is it rainbow carrot rainbow carrot so here I'm going to pull this one dang those are pretty cool they are cool check that out carrots and you call that a purple carrot yeah they're rainbow carrots so they're just a variety what is that this the yellow one it just didn't grow that big okay well we're out here harvesting some oh that's hug check that out that's really cool that's a healthy one really cool very nice w we're out here in our yard harvesting um some vegetables to go along with the snipe and what we decided is we're actually going to do this snipe dinner tomorrow night we're just going to have leftovers uh tonight but we'll have the snipe tomorrow and that gives me one more chance to go out there and shoot a few more so I'm going to do that tomorrow what else you got Maggie um that one's a funny one let me see oh yeah check that out um I have I have some baby Roma I I have some really pretty purple lettuce um I have radishes watermelon radishes so those can go in the salad or they can get roasted as well um and then lots of herbs so we'll see what I can come up with so one thing we've been thinking about lately is that Maggie has not been in very many fishing videos in a very long time and really it's because usually we hang out together on the weekends and I fish uh during the week days and Maggie goes to work during the week days so she doesn't get to be in too many videos but catch and cook together in this one Maggie's Garden combined with some snipe should make a pretty good dinner I think the plan is salad carrots and snipe we're going to do roasted potatoes too so H very nice not very exciting but it'll be nice when it gets cut open I don't know if I've ever eaten radishes um I may pickle them because they can be kind of strong just depending on your taste um but these are I planted these mostly because they're so pretty they when you cut them open they do look like a little watermelon on the inside they're like bright pink very cool yeah and then this is the lettuce we're going to eat here yeah this is a little this is a variation of Roma um it's little gem I think they don't get very big but they're more hearty than a regular rain and then this is just a free seed packet I got with my order so this is like a spring mix just just a purple kind of lettuce but really really pretty very nice it looks awesome everything looks awesome and we have so many radishes some family will be getting some radishes possibly [Music] friends [Music] all right Maggie one final look at what you harvested here today we're going to use some of this in our meal tomorrow but walk us through what you uh what you got here and then also let everyone know how long it took you to grow this stuff um well I planted this Garden from seed on November 11th so on my birthday nice um so that's about 93 days days ago uh um a lot of this stuff has a maturity of like 60 to 75 days and in its ideal condition which is like winter time here in Florida but I don't I'm not I'm seeing I'm not seeing like the growth that I would have expected for how long I left everything mhm but I think I still did pretty good for my first time growing like every single thing I planted um I have some rainbow carrots which is a variety which is like the the purples and yellows that you see and then some Danver 126 which are the more typical orange carrots M um we pulled an onion probably a little too soon it was a bulbing onion um I think this is a white it's a little one um but we'll make use of it anyway it still tastes like an onion um some watermelon radishes just a purple spring mix kind of lettuce and then uh little gem romanes um the lettuce is did best of anything we've kind kind of a weird winter here um in Florida this year a lot of rain not a lot of sun a lot of overcast days I just think they didn't get exactly what they needed but still super happy and very excited to use everything all organic as well all organic soil no pesticides no herbicides a lot of companion planting Justin will kind of include um some of the flow the swet alysum and the marigolds and a lot of the herbs that I planted are supposed to keep the bad bugs away or bring good bugs in and they kind of just I try to let everyone just do their own thing and hope that it all comes out and it usually does MHM very proud of you great job and I think right now I'm actually going to go see if I can grab a find some sort of bag for CU this is going to be obviously I said we're going to go sniping snipe hunting tomorrow as well I'm going to see if I can get a some sort of bag or something that'll help me carry these Snipes so obviously I don't make the same mistake that I did today which was one just disappearing on me get a good bag to put them in and we'll grab a few more tomorrow and then uh we're going to eat some of this delicious produce right with the SN I'm excited team Maggie and Justin we're doing good all right well uh that is it I'll see you guys tomorrow in the morning we're going to go find some more snipe I think that's it then we'll be back with the catch and cook tomorrow let's do [Music] it all right guys well we are back out here just ran the ginu up on the uh Shoreline here and uh we're going to try to knock out a few more Snipes today I obviously yesterday I didn't plan on going out a second day but since I had the time might as well do it had a lot of fun yesterday and they're here we only got a few days of the Season left so uh might as well make the most of it right so we're on this field here this is the same one I hunted yesterday and uh it was honestly loaded yesterday so we'll have to see how it hunts today um if it's not as good obviously cuz I hunted it yesterday I got a few other spots we can hit today um but I'd just be happy to knock out a few birds today honestly I don't care a whole lot about limiting out or anything like that just knock out a few Birds learn a little bit and uh have some fun so I did uh grab a few goodies yesterday at Bass Pro in academy I grabbed this belt right here you guys can see on my chest this is going to help me hold a few more shells here um it attaches to my waiters and uh it looks like I got about probably I could I think I can hold 25 shells on that that uh this clip here and then uh also I grabbed a nice pouch because obviously I misplaced a bird yesterday while hunting cuz I was stuffing them in my waiter pocket so I got this uh check this out this nice pouch right here you guys can see that it's on my hip there's a uh top pocket right there that's holding a bunch of shells then a bottom mesh pocket down here that I can uh stuff birds and uh you know shells you know spent shells in there that I pick up off the ground so I should have a lot more space can carry a lot more and I won't have to return to the boat today so lesson learned um just you learn as you go so these these little goodies should help quite a bit um but here we go let's uh let's load up let's get walking see what we can find let's do it I'm excited first shot down a I want to pull the trigger on that one but I won't be able to find the other one dude they're loaded that's three birds two up there one just flew out that way there's a fourth one and I can't find this dang bird I definitely don't like not being able to find him but I know he fell straight in here somewhere it was kind of a long shot to be honest well guys I am really frustrated that first bird I went straight to it walked straight to it I cannot find it which is super annoying because I probably spooked 15 other snipe while walking around trying to find this bird so I don't I don't know where it could have went like I've looked through all these bushes like it has to be in this area but I can't see it I cannot see it a bird dog would be mighty nice those are all snip four of them I ain't reaching them though oh there's two right there I uh I didn't get the second one but I saw he landed so I might have wounded him I might have to go chase him down that was two birds right there let's go see if I can get this one I'm going to put another shell in just in case hey buddy that was good shooting there so knocked him down the second he popped up put him in my pocket and then that other one that I shot he flew out maybe 50 ft to my left and landed which makes me think I might have hit him okay I missed that one that was my shooting just ain't there right I saw he landed though and I spooked another one up he honestly probably flew 100 ft and then landed again I don't know how I missed him with the first shot it was a really close shot dude that one was right next to me these shells man I switched to two and 3/4 s shot and I think it's significantly harder to knock them down even though what I've read is that all you need is seven shot blah blah blah or seven and a half nine shot Dove shot I don't know I can't hit them like I can using foreshot got one spook three right there let's go get him all right managed to get him nice bird going to go in the pouch all right let's keep going [Music] oh well I got to say today was not quite as successful as uh yesterday I don't know what it was I switched up ammo today I tried a little bit lighter uh shot size size seven um yesterday I was shooting fours and uh I just felt like I couldn't hit a thing today and yesterday I felt like I couldn't miss so that's just that's just the way it goes I think that's how sometimes a water foul is it's just some days you got it some days you don't it's just like uh I don't know probably shooting a basketball or anything else some days you're hot and some days you won't today I was just it just seemed like I was off I still walked away with two beautiful snipe I'll go ahead and pull them out here in a second but I'm hungry I'm starving worn out hunted 5 hours most of the time walking through mud and uh in waiters so I'm a bit worn out I'm ready to go home cook up up the snipe with Maggie and uh have some fun so yeah I think that's it it is uh it is time to go I just I wish I wish I hit him today I found him I found him real good just couldn't hit him so I think that's the uh that is the story behind snipe hunting is they are not easy to hit so that's that let's go put the boat on the trailer head home and uh meet up with Maggie and cook something good for dinner tonight all righty guys well welcome back back to the kitchen at uh mag Maggie come over here come here come here come here for our katchen cook today we both have aprons on and we're going to teach you guys how to cook or at least how how we how we cook sometimes we don't know how to cook though we're going to show you guys how we cook we're not going to teach you guys how to cook we're just going to show you yeah all right but uh I just went ahead and cleaned up my Snipes here um I didn't want to show show a whole lot on camera it is a pinch graphic but I will show you guys this part of the process which is right here you got a snip breast check this out this is what it looks like it is really really easy to get this out of the bird really it is all you do is break off the wings pull the skin apart at the breast and basically just reach in there and pull this out but the uh breast is still on the rib cage here so what I'm going to do is filet it off so I have nine Birds here we got seven yesterday two today we should have 18 nice little pieces of meat here and uh Maggie's working on some things in the background but let's uh let's get these breasts ready to go all righty so cleaning our breast here you guys can see got a left and a right side all I'm basically going to do is going to take the knife and cut down the middle just right here cut off that side fillet it cut off that side fet it all righty well there it is right there that is half of a snip breast so it's a nice little little piece of meat very similar to like a chicken nugget honestly sizewise but delicious let's do the other half all right and there you have it that is what you get from a snipe two little pieces of meat there this one was pretty chunky I did it pretty well so we'll have a total of 18 of these pieces say nine for Maggie nine for me cuz we have nine birds so looking pretty good all right so for seasoning we're going to do a little bit of olive oil in here with my breast just a little bit a little bit of salt we're going to keep it pretty simple nothing crazy little bit of salt black pepper and then I'd say a half a tablespoon of garlic powder all using the eyeball method it doesn't need to be perfect we'll go ahead and mix that up okay guys well it is time to cook the snipe we have my uh cast iron right here this is a Griz wall cast iron it is about 110 to 120 years old so it is a vintage cast iron pot or antique antique cast iron we're going to go ahead and input it on the oven and uh we've been heating it up to a medium I think medium is going to be just good for these snipe we're going to sear them and I think I'm going to probably do about one to a 1 minute to a minute and a half in there flip them a minute to a minute and a half to finish them uh so here we go that's it we got olive oil in the cast iron and let's do it all right about a minute and a half has gone by and it's time to flip all right we're going to go in with a little bit of onions from the garden as well as some garlic from Publix just a little bit in there hopefully add some more flavor all right snipe has been on for about 3 minutes you guys tell me what you think how does that look looks I mean I think it looks amazing smells good too smells delicious going to get it off the burner all right finally finally a lot of hard work and it is time to finally finally eat so I'm going to have Maggie start off with what she made and Maggie let them know how did you make it and uh also where did it come from cuz we mentioned it yesterday but let them know um I just did the carrots that came from my garden and some little baby potatoes um roasted and then tossed them in like a garlic butter at the end um pretty simple pretty easy and then the salad is all my garden but the red onions um and then I just made pretty simple vinegrette here at home and to sweeten it up I used some honey from Justin's dad's beehives that he used to have nice so thank you you s nice all right well awesome and then for me that was honestly really good for me obviously I did the snipe here uh all we did seared it in olive oil uh it was seasoned with garlic powder salt pepper and that was pretty much it seared it for about uh seared it for 3 minutes total and I think that is it have you tasted it Maggie mhm I'll taste it right now let's see H honestly pretty good pretty pretty good for such a little funny bird it I mean it is not far off from steak a little bird that's spends its life digging around in the mud delicious honestly so what do you think of everything else Maggie have you tried anything else the potatoes and carrots are are good potatoes are good very simple M the carrots are really good but um I think that is it I am worn out from this video I walked a lot hard work for snip for sure so Maggie thank you so much for helping today and today's catch and cook I love you so much I'm so proud of you and what you grew really so proud beautiful beautiful love you so proud I think that is it for today worn out honestly worn out I wanted to mention two things real quick about today's snipe hunting video I really did um so I'm going to do it really fast and then I'm hungry I got to eat but two things the shells I shot today they weren't shooting like the four shot three iners I shot yesterday uh I felt like I couldn't miss yesterday today I tried a little lighter load which was the seven shot it was a Winchester uh steel shot uh Winchester expert steel shot uh in seven shot that's really that's a tongue twister but I just wasn't hitting today I felt like I was missing behind the birds under the birds uh I still got a few though I got a few and uh yesterday I felt like I couldn't miss I was hitting I shot one box yesterday one box today yesterday I took down eight birds today I took down technically three so with one box of ammo uh I was shooting a lot better yesterday and I don't know if it was me or the shells but I think it was the shells but lesson learned lesson learned I'll definitely go back to four shot next time I go to hunt Snipes or even six shot should probably do uh just as well I anywhere between four and six shot but it was an epic video a little bit different than I normally do I hope you guys enjoyed please subscribe to the channel and like this video If you enjoyed it and if you have any comments questions concerns anything leave them down below Maggie thank you once again love you oh wave again bye guys thanks for watching and for the peace the Valentine's resistance the coveted Public's cookie cake

Channel: Justin Menendez

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Length: 35min 11sec (2111 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 21 2024