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oldfart

Aerial Sheep Hunting
« on: July 06, 2013, 05:20:34 PM »
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Haoleb

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2013, 05:36:54 PM »
looked like they were shooting a .50 BMG or something in one of the clips.
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michalebsdad

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #2 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"???
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Haoleb

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #3 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!



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michalebsdad

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #4 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!
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oldfart

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #5 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.
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paulb3

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #6 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.
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michalebsdad

Re: Aerial Sheep Hunting
« Reply #7 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...
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