Dongles
30-03-05, 06:55 PM
Just before the easter break i got away for a day to have a crack at a few pigs on a place we have been hunting for years. However after checking the usual places things were pretty quiet, it wasn't until late in the afternoon when we discovered why that was so... about an hour and a half before dark a helicopter appeared coming up a valley and then all hell broke loose and the helicopter started what sounded like WW3.
The place we were hunting boarders on a national park and from previous aerial shoots the owner of the property had distinctly forbidden the choppers from carrying out any shooting on his property after shooting a mob of 20-30 goats that he had kept to keep down the rose bush, however the helicopter paid little respect to this and flew onto his property at will.
To highlight the shear inhumane and ineffectiveness of aerial shooting, 15 minutes before the chopper flew directly over us, after we proceeded out into the open to avoid being indirectly shot at when the helicopter proceeded to shoot within 100 metres of us!!!!! we had found a small mob of 2 nannies and 2 kids and had watched them for a few minutes, after flying over us the chopper flew straight to where the goats were and fired no less than 25!!!!!! shots from an automatic shot gun or high powered rifle... then proceeded to fly into the gorge where it fired off another 20-30 shots at what i can only presume was one of the goats trying to escape..... 50 shots to kill 4 small goats from a helicopter and the government says this is both efficient and humane!?!?!?!?! having walked over the rest of the property i did not see one carcass, however i have in the past come across a mob of goats that had been herded into a corner of a fence line by a helicopter and resembled only what you would see in an exagerated Rambo movie!!! Has the government not learnt anything from the Guy Forkes NP wild horse shooting?????
Another incident a few days later and a few hundred kilometres away on another property, the owner had advised us that the NP's had asked to shoot goats on his property but he declined, however he told of how he witnessed the helicopter fly into a nearby valley and open all hell, he said he stopped counting at 80 shots and this was in a valley that i know that holds very few goats... and we pay for this with our taxes???? working in the helicopter industry i know the costs of operating a helicopter and for you to tell me that this is a cost effective solution makes me laugh... After hunting on the property a few days after the helicopter had shot nearby properties we came across a small goat that appeared to have been shot in the hips from a rifle and since we are the only people to hunt on this property it's not hard to figure out where it got it from....
I have also read documents in the past that have given figures of animals shot from helicopters and if you do the sums they are suppossed to be shooting more than a pig a minute, i can not comprehend how they are suppossed to find, shot and reload and shoot again pigs at that rate particularly in NSW for a sustained period of days, obviously there are a lot of lies in there somewhere and from my observations i know where they are coming from...
The place we were hunting boarders on a national park and from previous aerial shoots the owner of the property had distinctly forbidden the choppers from carrying out any shooting on his property after shooting a mob of 20-30 goats that he had kept to keep down the rose bush, however the helicopter paid little respect to this and flew onto his property at will.
To highlight the shear inhumane and ineffectiveness of aerial shooting, 15 minutes before the chopper flew directly over us, after we proceeded out into the open to avoid being indirectly shot at when the helicopter proceeded to shoot within 100 metres of us!!!!! we had found a small mob of 2 nannies and 2 kids and had watched them for a few minutes, after flying over us the chopper flew straight to where the goats were and fired no less than 25!!!!!! shots from an automatic shot gun or high powered rifle... then proceeded to fly into the gorge where it fired off another 20-30 shots at what i can only presume was one of the goats trying to escape..... 50 shots to kill 4 small goats from a helicopter and the government says this is both efficient and humane!?!?!?!?! having walked over the rest of the property i did not see one carcass, however i have in the past come across a mob of goats that had been herded into a corner of a fence line by a helicopter and resembled only what you would see in an exagerated Rambo movie!!! Has the government not learnt anything from the Guy Forkes NP wild horse shooting?????
Another incident a few days later and a few hundred kilometres away on another property, the owner had advised us that the NP's had asked to shoot goats on his property but he declined, however he told of how he witnessed the helicopter fly into a nearby valley and open all hell, he said he stopped counting at 80 shots and this was in a valley that i know that holds very few goats... and we pay for this with our taxes???? working in the helicopter industry i know the costs of operating a helicopter and for you to tell me that this is a cost effective solution makes me laugh... After hunting on the property a few days after the helicopter had shot nearby properties we came across a small goat that appeared to have been shot in the hips from a rifle and since we are the only people to hunt on this property it's not hard to figure out where it got it from....
I have also read documents in the past that have given figures of animals shot from helicopters and if you do the sums they are suppossed to be shooting more than a pig a minute, i can not comprehend how they are suppossed to find, shot and reload and shoot again pigs at that rate particularly in NSW for a sustained period of days, obviously there are a lot of lies in there somewhere and from my observations i know where they are coming from...