Wild deer recovery (video)
 

This would scare the living sh1t outta me :ooh:

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.

I notice that the bloke with the bone dome isn't the guy leaping 20' onto a livid stag!

Hell, I was getting dizzy just following the flying. I don't likes heights, but this time I'd stay in the chopper!

Cheers, y'all.

Thye've been doing this for years in NZ - the number of carcasses collected is usually seriously large ....

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 :eek:
Capture net gun made from welding 4 barrels onto an old lee enfield
This thing has some SERIOUS kick :ooh:
http://www.geocities.com/nedu537/helihunt/netgun.jpeg
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

Pretty widely used in SA too. 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.

http://www.conservationafrica.net/up...per2-300px.jpg

:ooh: Always thought you Boks were a tough lot .
The kiwis are content with sheep !

More adrenalin for your dollar....:} :E

They die happy.:rolleyes:

Yep. Helicopter and 20 man ground team with associated support vehicles. Much cheaper to kill them that way than use a rifle.

Yer wudden want to jump onto them pointy bits!:eek:
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 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..;)

Bush flying
 

Excellent! Now thats what i call helo flying!:ok: :ok: :ok:

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.......

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.)

Paerata ridge road?

if it wasnt for CAA regs in this country i could see a way round the fox hunting legislation, lol:}

Why Yes, We had Dennis Mullooly and Dave Bass in A 500 based there.

500 Abuse
 

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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