Please watch and share this video.  It's not only a Big Island issue this is a sign of things to come for the entire state if we do not do something now.

Awesome video.  Mahalo for sharing.   

Mahalo for Sharing... I'll be posting on my FB page.

You posted this video at the right time.  I was teaching a class in Hilo tonight and I showed this video as the guys were settling down before class.  I personally know a handful of the guys that were in the class and they are avid hunters They also know the guy who made the video.  The guy who put the video together is a grad from Waiakea High School.  He went to college on a full ride scholarship for riflery.  In other words da bruddah can shoot.  Anyways the guys were telling me how they do the aerial eradication.  The pilot will spot the herd and chase them down with the helicopter until the sheep and/or goats are literally so tired they can't run anymore.  The pilot then hovers over the tired herd and the shooters shoot straight down on top of the animals.  My friends were saying the shots are all dead on along the spine.  He said the shooters are good and their groupings can fit in a dessert plate.  All shooting is done with 308 semi- autos.  The sad part he said is that they do not always pick up the animals they kill.  He also said its now a lottery system for who gets to butcher the kills because so many people show up now.

I believe in protecting the native Hawaiian plants and animals but I also believe in hunting and the country way of life.  Now days I fish and dive way more than I hunt.  I don't understand why they don't have large tournaments.  For divers they have roi or taape shoots.  Who can bag the most and biggest of those invasive species.  Why not have sheep and goat hunts?  At least you know the animal and meat wouldn't be wasted.