Flights are operating year round except for the hot summer months. Hogs are declared a pest by TX legislature and this became legal in 2011.

http://vimeo.com/21181307

What equipment are they using? rifles, ammo, sights?

Ones I've seen include AR's and you buy ammo from them. I guess they like to control the equipment used in their heli's. They don't want guns/ammo blowing up in their aircraft. Most common sights, eotech.

Helicopters are R44 and R22. Weapons for customers are .223 with ball ammo and Eotech sights. This video looks like early footage shot at what is now known as Cedar Ridge Aviation (could be wrong but looks very familiar).

I would guess that the rifles are mounted to allow adequate movement without shooting off some useful piece of the helo.

Looks like that strap is used to help prevent the gun from being pointed up at the rotors, and maybe to aid in it's retrieval if the hunter drops it out the door!

I am sure the camera is a GoPro or something similar mounted on the head of the shooter, not on the gun. Which is why it doesn't look like he is shouldering the gun.

pretty dang good shooting for sure.

I used a full auto M16. It worked quite well.

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Originally posted by Brice:
I would guess that the rifles are mounted to allow adequate movement without shooting off some useful piece of the helo.

You are belted in so it possible to actually lean out of the helicopter to shoot. A brass catcher is recommended as the pilots get pissy if brass hits their rotors. It has always been legal in Texas. The law changed to where they could charge people to do it. We have ben doing it for 20+ years.