if this is a repost it needs to be reposted... we are all doing it wrong!

YouTube - Nueces Helicopter Pig Hunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WOTnPOFsZ0)

You know it is only around 50 more hours after I get my Comm certificate in single/multi engine planes and I can have my instrument and commercial in helly choppers. If anyone wants to pay for it I will fly for free and you can do all the shooting.

this is why I want to build an autogyro...so, I can fly over my place and shoot at shit...

this is why I want to build an autogyro...so, I can fly over my place and shoot at shit...

In a lot of states people hunt coyotes with STOL equipped Super Cubs.

What the hell he shooting them with?

:fullmetaljacket: how can you shoot women and children?! :off:

:fullmetaljacket: how can you shoot women and children?! :off:

"Just don't lead 'em as much."

I was thinking something like this...and maybe an AR shorty:flipoff2:



YouTube - Monarch gyrocopter doing stop and drop landings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlyR-aSEuig&feature=related)

YouTube - Treetop Flying and low flying over the Cotton Fields (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_vhGuSp8ac&feature=related)

What the hell he shooting them with?

X2 what's he shooting?

Nevermind, the video poster laid it out in the comments.

"Its an AK47 shooting Wolf ammunition standard loads. Just using the cheapest ammo. I go up again in a couple of weeks and will probably take the good ol' S&W AR-15 with hollow points to em :)"

someone on another fourm said a bennille 12... i guess that is why the coppter ducks in close. the dust pattern is real big to be a rifle. looks similer to the guy shootin them in the 3 sidded fence.

Here's another good one, great background music too. :D

YouTube - Helicopter Pig Hunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKCJ5SWevWo&feature=related)

This guy can shoot, it's listed as "adult" so you have to sign in to see it.

Damnit, I can't link it. Search for "SHOOTING PEST PIGS FROM HELICOPTER 9 SHOTS 7DEAD" It'll pop up.

they need chain guns!!!!

While shooting wild pests from a helicopter does make me envious what I really want is to own enough land to have a wild hog problem bad enough to need a helicopter to hunt them. I'm watching these videos thinking about how many thousands of acres of land some of these ranchers own out in West TX, I'd love to be able to say I owned that much land because as my grandfather used to say "They ain't making that shit anymore ya know". :smokin:

with ccr playing it looks like something out of vietnam

While shooting wild pests from a helicopter does make me envious what I really want is to own enough land to have a wild hog problem bad enough to need a helicopter to hunt them. I'm watching these videos thinking about how many thousands of acres of land some of these ranchers own out in West TX, I'd love to be able to say I owned that much land because as my grandfather used to say "They ain't making that shit anymore ya know". :smokin:

Yup


Awesome vids, I have got to to do that sometime. :smokin:

While shooting wild pests from a helicopter does make me envious what I really want is to own enough land to have a wild hog problem bad enough to need a helicopter to hunt them. I'm watching these videos thinking about how many thousands of acres of land some of these ranchers own out in West TX, I'd love to be able to say I owned that much land because as my grandfather used to say "They ain't making that shit anymore ya know". :smokin:

Lots of land. Lots and lots. My Grandpa had 2,600 acres near Sanderson, and according to his neighbors, that was about the size of their front yards. :laughing: I think one of his neighbors had 15,000 acres and one other had close to 30,000. They use airplanes to heard their cattle. :laughing:

What the hell he shooting them with?

X2 what's he shooting?

he is shooting them with a 12 guage, its buckshot. he is a peanut farmer and bought the shells from my old man back in the winter. 75 cents a shot.

The guy sent the vid to my dad who forwarded it to me last week. it cost him 350 dollars to hire those guys to fly him around. the owner of the land is the shooter.

From what i have been told, using autoloading rifles from a helicopter of that type is dangerous if a casing hits the rotor blade it can lead to catastophic failure (fiberglass).

Shit only $350? That is fucking awsome!:evil:

cant remember how many pigs they killed, but i do remember thinking that he had to have spent well 200 bucks just on buckshot.

Hmm, how about a brass deflector?

Hmm, how about a brass deflector?

or a brass catcher. but i assume it would most likely be up to the owner of the flying machine.

i think getting to do this would be pretty awesome and i was surprised it wasnt more expensive. i think i am going to get the contact name of the guy and find out all the details.

side note: got to go this weekend to do a pig erradication in a high fenced breeder-type pasture. need to make sure my Colt Match Target is still shooting tacks and if all goes well ill get to barbeque baby pig halves come monday or tuesday. ill try and snag a camera from the girlfriend if she'll let me. :smokin:

he is shooting them with a 12 guage, its buckshot. he is a peanut farmer and bought the shells from my old man back in the winter. 75 cents a shot.

The guy sent the vid to my dad who forwarded it to me last week. it cost him 350 dollars to hire those guys to fly him around. the owner of the land is the shooter.

From what i have been told, using autoloading rifles from a helicopter of that type is dangerous if a casing hits the rotor blade it can lead to catastophic failure (fiberglass).

According to the owner of that video you're wrong, he was shooting with an AK47.

According to the owner of that video you're wrong, he was shooting with an AK47.

In the video you posted, he's most definitely using a shotgun...

According to the owner of that video you're wrong, he was shooting with an AK47.

well you can think i am wrong, but ill go with credible sources and not just something posted on the internet.

ELew61 (2 weeks ago) Reply
We use the AK47 because the ammo is cheaper than the hotter loads of shotgun shells. It's all about efficiently spending the farmers' money. And by the way it is actually way easier with the shotgun.

swiftkick7 (1 week ago) 0 Reply
Pretty cool stuff. I've see it done in South Texas for Coyotes. They use shot guns and call it coyote rolling. Don't use an AR15 if you get a chane to do this - we had an incident where the casing from the ejection port nicked the rotor. A Sig 223 is preferred - ejection port is forward and right - not up like the AR15s.

ELew61 (1 week ago) Reply
We have a hull catcher mounted to the side of the gun for this reason. VERY dangerous...even if it does eject to the right.

The problem with yall's argument is that there are different videos being talked about. All of what I quoted above came from the video in post #1. ELew61 is the guy who put the video up. In the vid in post #12 you can see the shotgun clearly. In this video from the Galapagos Islands you can see the AR clearly.

YouTube - Goat Killer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrFIcWzSEo&feature=related)

. . . and this guy is shooting an M1A. . .

YouTube - south texas hunting r44 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xa38jOISS0&feature=related)

there's really no argument. im just saying you can believe what you want to believe. the first video is a shotgun, dont really care what the "owner" of the vid says.

i read his comments and it makes me suspicious that he knows what he is talking about when he says an AR ejects to the top. then he says he has a "hull catcher" mounted to the right. sounds more like shotgun shells to me...

maybe he got confused as to what video he was commenting on.

there's really no argument. im just saying you can believe what you want to believe. the first video is a shotgun, dont really care what the "owner" of the vid says.

i read his comments and it makes me suspicious that he knows what he is talking about when he says an AR ejects to the top. then he says he has a "hull catcher" mounted to the right. sounds more like shotgun shells to me...

maybe he got confused as to what video he was commenting on.

If you read all of the posts, he does say this;
We use the AK47 because the ammo is cheaper than the hotter loads of shotgun shells. It's all about efficiently spending the farmers' money. And by the way it is actually way easier with the shotgun.

So looks like they have/do use shotguns, just maybe not in this video? Because as you said, ammo is expensive.

That being said, it sure doesn't look like a 7.62x39 hitting the ground, but I've never shot from a helicopter.

ill stick to the jeep method. yes, it may not kill as many, but its a fuckton cheaper :D

i wanna go next weekend :smokin:

I was out today, no pigs to shoot, but I did take out 27 dove with my 10-22

I was out today, no pigs to shoot, but I did take out 27 dove with my 10-22

You might want to delete this post before the FWS sees it.

Id say vid 1 is 7.62x39 AK action

do you guys eat the pigs? do they do that much damage when there are too many?

i eat them if i cant smell them more than 3 feet away. they just are stinky fawking things, and when you can smell them 3+ feet away, normally in my experience the meat tastes like they smell=shit.

they are HORRIBLE to the land. they dig up living room or bigger areas up about 6-10inches deep eating wild onions where i hunt them.

that area is now turned up, which means no grass for the moo cows, which means farmer joe has to buy hay which means money out of his pocket, instead of the pastures feeding the bovines.


kill em all.

look up pig bomb on youtube.

Halo, not to mention the broken plows and tractors because of the hogs and they land that they tear up.

I guess I don't see the big picture. Is he going out and picking them up? If not, he's only feeding the ones that he didn't kill.It does look fun though.

Wow, I knew you guys had a problem with them down there but I didn't expect to see so many in one place. We are starting to have a problem here. I've got to get out and shoot some, it's just a matter of figuring out wehre they are.

There was someone who posted up some pictures of a Gator type 4 wheeler with some belt fed weapons mounted on it and the pile of pigs that they shot. I searched but couldn't find it...Anyone remember that?

It seems like that would be easier than flying after them...

they litter the landscape. think of them as pidgeons when your in the city. thats how you see them out in the country where the grass is green, and the land is big.

on a side note, my asshole FIL has (had) one of those little parachute plane thingies....


he was buzzing and fucking with a pack of boars when one of them turned around and charged him.

he consiquently crashed :laughing: :shocked:

very funnay in my book, cause hes a fucking prick :laughing:

I wonder if something like the Keltec RFB might be nice because of the forward tube ejection. There's another rifle like that also. Is it the FN2000?

The 5.7 AR uppers with the 50 round top mount magazine from the FN2000 eject through the magazine well of the lower.

5.7x28 on pigs probably isn't a good idea.

In the video you posted, he's most definitely using a shotgun...

But not in the first video.

I can't see how the ejected brass could make it past the rotor wash to hit a rotor blade.

That would be about as fun as it gets shootin those fawkers out of a helo.

I can't see how the ejected brass could make it past the rotor wash to hit a rotor blade.

That would be about as fun as it gets shootin those fawkers out of a helo.

It probably never would but it is not something I would risk flying a 100k dollar helicopter.

It probably never would but it is not something I would risk flying a 100k dollar helicopter.

I would worry more about the ground :D

I have flown with with my buddy when he flipped a deer by hitting it in the ass with the skid in an open field. I prefer a little more altitude than 3 feet :laughing:

I guess I don't see the big picture. Is he going out and picking them up? If not, he's only feeding the ones that he didn't kill.It does look fun though.

It doesn't really matter. Those pigs will never starve anyway because it doesn't get that cold here in Texas. You're better off trying to kill off some of the breeding stock than hoping that they'll run out of food. Those bastards have a gestation period of 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days, so they can spit out 3 litters a year. In 5 years, one sow can be responsible for producing over 1,000 pigs. They're like rats.

i like to think of them as stinky pidgeons that cant fly :laughing:

i like to think of them as stinky pidgeons that cant fly :laughing:

You ever been next to a big boar with only a 3 foot high hog trap between you? They may not be able to fly, but they can jump higher than you expect. :laughing:

teh trap i have has a roof. :grinpimp:


BUT i have had one run into the passenger door of the jeep and wanted in :)
he got a face full of 9mm from the drivers seat :evil: