Wild deer recovery (video)
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Interesting bit of film. Anybody know what is going on??
UFO
Reason I ask - I've just bought a deer carcass for the freezer - about 2GBP per KG (if you butcher it yourself), wouldn't pay for the fuel for that helicopter.
UFO
Reason I ask - I've just bought a deer carcass for the freezer - about 2GBP per KG (if you butcher it yourself), wouldn't pay for the fuel for that helicopter.
Silly Old Git
Kiwis being dumb to cruel animals
Live catching for breeders early 80's was a good $$$$ innit for a time finished about the end of the 80's
Mainly Hughes 500/300 lots of seriously crazy bastards and lots bent choppers and deaths
Tin been on few sorties
Capture net gun made from welding 4 barrels onto an old lee enfield
This thing has some SERIOUS kick
If you can get a copy of this book yer hair will stand on end...
The Chopper Boys Rex Forrester Penguin Books NZ Ltd., 1988
Live catching for breeders early 80's was a good $$$$ innit for a time finished about the end of the 80's
Mainly Hughes 500/300 lots of seriously crazy bastards and lots bent choppers and deaths
Tin been on few sorties
Capture net gun made from welding 4 barrels onto an old lee enfield
This thing has some SERIOUS kick
If you can get a copy of this book yer hair will stand on end...
The Chopper Boys Rex Forrester Penguin Books NZ Ltd., 1988
Silly Old Git
Know of pilots who've held down a warthog with a skid on the neck on the edge of it's burrow until ground units arrived.
Always thought you Boks were a tough lot .The kiwis are content with sheep !
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Yer wudden want to jump onto them pointy bits!
I didn't see much concern for earthing as he hooked up and climbed back aboard!
Looks like more fun than the Shotover Jet, though.
I didn't see much concern for earthing as he hooked up and climbed back aboard!
Looks like more fun than the Shotover Jet, though.
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I used to do this in the late 90's in Nz, Money wasn't to bad although these days your more likely to use a Robbie or a H300,Best day was about 17 deer in about hour and a half ,and taking in about $3.800 nzd for this depending on the price/per kg and the kind of shot.( head shot the best ,as if you shoot it anywhere than there you are going to devalue the meat,espt if you shoot it through the back legs).Back then you had a recovery licence and you could shoot as many as you wanted It was try and keep numbers at a suitable level,for Maf, but only a certain amount of licences are issued.Don't no what it's like now but it was fun back then..
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I came from a farm in Opotiki on the east coast and the ridge I stayed on had 9 500Ds and 6 300Cs operating from various farms. I remember around 1984 seeing the prices max out at about 3-4000 dollars for a live hind.... It was good money especially when our guys were capturing 8-10 in a 3 hour trip. Our crew was in the DVD 'The last Great Adventure' Which has some pretty wild flying. I remember every Friday was when the 500 went in for its 50 hour check. Those days are now gone.......
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Wild deer, er, NON-recovery
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?pmmsid=1820400
Hope that link works.
Wild deer, er, NON-recovery. More than one way to skin a cat, er deer in Oklahoma.
(Sorry about the TV commercial, however, it is the only way to show the video.)
Hope that link works.
Wild deer, er, NON-recovery. More than one way to skin a cat, er deer in Oklahoma.
(Sorry about the TV commercial, however, it is the only way to show the video.)
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As the title says!... hmmmmmm
This may well of been posted before but i couldn't find it. But then the intraweb thingy is still too much for this ol' codger!
Yes, posted before but always good for a discussion! Threads merged,
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This may well of been posted before but i couldn't find it. But then the intraweb thingy is still too much for this ol' codger!
Yes, posted before but always good for a discussion! Threads merged,
SPlot
Last edited by Old Age Pilot; 17th Dec 2012 at 21:16.