Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge includes snipe hunting with a bag limit of eight in its own categories, but that was just constituted copying and pasting from the state’s list and is not representative of a real season in Seymour.

“I really don’t know anyone around southern Indiana who goes snipe hunting,” Park Ranger Donna Stanley said.

At least two of the most famous men in American history indulged in faux snipe hunting of the joke variety roughly 150 years ago.

Buffalo Bill Cody, the Army scout and showman, and Gen. George Armstrong Custer became friends during shared hunts on the Plains. They conspired against naive members in their camps by urging them into the field carrying empty sacks while commanding them not to return until the bags were full.

“I have known tenderfeet to stay and hold the sack all night before tumbling to the fact that they had been sold,” Cody once said.