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Tools and Uses => Hunting => Topic started by: oldfart on July 06, 2013, 05:20:34 PM

Title: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: oldfart on July 06, 2013, 05:20:34 PM
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/category/240193/new-video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9064988 (http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/category/240193/new-video-landing-page?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=9064988)
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Nice shooting.
Anybody know who the shooter is?
Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: Haoleb on July 06, 2013, 05:36:54 PM
looked like they were shooting a .50 BMG or something in one of the clips.
Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: michalebsdad on July 06, 2013, 06:18:39 PM
Quote from: Haoleb on July 06, 2013, 05:36:54 PM
looked like they were shooting a .50 BMG or something in one of the clips.

Were they shooting something with "clips"???
Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: Haoleb on July 06, 2013, 06:27:54 PM
Quote from: michalebsdad on July 06, 2013, 06:18:39 PM
Were they shooting something with "clips"???

No, video clip. They had a video of a gun mounted to the helicopter and were shooting animals on an open field.

I was up on mauna kea a few days ago in the hunting area and as I left I saw some military trucks towing what looks to be M777A2 Howitzer's.. I was up there shooting my .300 win mag... I saw those and thought to myself...Now, those guys have some bad ass toys!. Makes my 300 look like a bb gun. The sheep are in for it now!



Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: michalebsdad on July 06, 2013, 06:30:32 PM
Quote from: Haoleb on July 06, 2013, 06:27:54 PM
No, video clip. They had a video of a gun mounted to the helicopter and were shooting animals on an open field.

I was up on mauna kea a few days ago in the hunting area and as I left I saw some military trucks towing what looks to be M777A2 Howitzer's.. I was up there shooting my .300 win mag... I saw those and thought to myself...Now, those guys have some bad ass toys!. Makes my 300 look like a bb gun. The sheep are in for it now!

Oh shit...by bad brother!
Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: oldfart on July 07, 2013, 08:54:51 AM
Watching the video again. My observations:

It might not be local video.
The rifle at 1:05 in looks like an AR platform but it seems to drop the animal faster than I would expect.
It is hard to gauge the distance.
Still pretty damn good shooting from a moving helicopter.
Sucks for the sheep.
Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: paulb3 on July 13, 2013, 04:42:42 PM
The aerial hunt(not hunting in the remotest sense of the word) slaughter is done by a contractor hired by dlnr.  The fly around chasing the sheep till they can't run anymore then gun them down rams, ewes, and babies.  Then they fly a small portion of the shot up sheep for salvage.  All for the sake of a little bird up on mauna kea that has continued to decline over the last 30 years all the while sheep getting eradicated.
Title: Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
Post by: michalebsdad on July 13, 2013, 06:32:37 PM
Quote from: oldfart on July 07, 2013, 08:54:51 AM
Watching the video again. My observations:

It might not be local video.
The rifle at 1:05 in looks like an AR platform but it seems to drop the animal faster than I would expect.
It is hard to gauge the distance.
Still pretty damn good shooting from a moving helicopter.
Sucks for the sheep.

Probably using the .458 Socom...