Looking to hear from persons with ariel hunting experience from helicopters using modified AR15 rifles,and shotguns,(current and certified) for possible project lasting 1-2 yrs. Must have at least 1000hrs airborne experience with 400hrs using semi-automatic center fire rifles. Interested persons please e-mail.
This fellow is putting together a contract to clear some areas that are very biologically sensitve from ferral goats and donkeys. This is a real post. He ask me were he could find some professional hunters. urdu bob
The goverment contract specifies the requirments he ask for.
Look at it this way you get paid to cull animals all day long.
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I shot a wounded kudu from a helicopter with a 375 H&H once upon a time and I know a guy who served as door gunner during the S.E. Asian conflict. He may be a bit long of tooth these days, but I bet he still has the skills.
To all so far who have read this posting. It is a Bid contract that requires people with the skills listed. The contract is being sponsered by the US Goverment. I am not looking for mercenary's to rampage villages of people from helicopters, it is to control the population of goats that are destroying the ecosystem.
I'm over qualified for the job, I've shot a lot from planes on wolves and coyotes,so my question is how much does it pay, it would have to be a lot for me to go to Australia, and risk my arse in a plane, been there done that! it ain't safe.
I have come pretty close to buying the farm in both the helicopter and High fixed wing planes. When your that low it just takes one hangover to bit the dust. I suspect you might get caught flying in some heat in Aussieland and that gets my attention real quick...
I always had concerns when shooting eagles out of a fixed wing plane, I have seen them end up in the prop on one ocassion. I was not in that plane and the great flyer behind the stick landed that sucker...Mr. Casperous and he was written up in Life magazine because he had the most hours, most crashes and most varmints of any man in the world..A colorfull character, indeed...Rates up there with DWM Bell...I used to shoot coyotes and eagles with him many years ago, when I was a kid. Its kind of an art but when you get the hang of it you never miss.
Ray, I have a lot of respect for your knowledge of African hunting,so, please do not take offense at my question: Why in hell would you want to hunt eagles from an airplane? I have seen old movies of this and just have no clue where the sporting aspect comes from, even allowing for the "good ol' days". I have similar feeling about hunting polar bears from boats (or planes) etc. This is slaughter, plain and simple. Peter.
quote:Originally posted by Helicopter Hunters: Looking to hear from persons with ariel hunting experience from helicopters using modified AR15 rifles,and shotguns,(current and certified) for possible project lasting 1-2 yrs. Must have at least 1000hrs airborne experience with 400hrs using semi-automatic center fire rifles. Interested persons please e-mail.
If the price is right I am available. Please contact me via email.
Flying helo`s at low altitude is not inheirently dangerous. I managed to survive a career in Coast Guard helos (old HH52A`s with ONE engine), doing search and rescure at night, in bad weather, in crap conditions, as did most of my buddies. Tramping through rice paddies looking for bad guys and not knowing who the bad guys are..... now THAT is dangerous. If you have a well maintained machine, and a thoughtful pilot that has a modicum of common sense(I know... "Common Sense" is kind of an oxymoron nowadays), and is not out to impress the world, hunting from helos is no big deal. The common sense part comes in deciding if it is too hot or D/A is too high to fly. I`ll take a helo in hot weather in the lonely mountians anyday over trying to thread the needle into LAX in a light plane. Shootin goats is probably less dangerous than getting lowered to the deck of a sinking boat in heavy seas, hehe. Powerlines are what we hate. Especially when they are not balled or on the sectional.
One of the pilots I flew air assault missions with said that any flight that resulted in him having to pick pine needles out of the tail rotor was a good flight. My kind of guy. Most of my team were plastered to the backs of their seats (if they HAD backs to their seats)... me, I was leaning out of the bird, while we were flying nap-of-the-Earth, yelling "YEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!"
Let's see. Choppers, firepower, blood... and I get paid. And this ISN'T the Army??? I'm kind of bummed that the bleeders won't be wearing turbans... but goats and sheep are about the same thing. (Slam, slam, slam.)
Russ
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