Thread: Choppers shooting during roar peroid.

Originally Posted by Moutere

Weather and season dictate where to hunt, too dynamic for public notice.

Moralities aside, have they operated outside of their concession?
I get you’re venting, but you’re frustration should be aimed at DOC rather than the operator.
DOC are inviting submissions currently on WARO.




Don’t recall any legitimate near misses in the last 60 years aerial recovery has been undertaken.
Not saying it’s never happened, just that if it was a genuine issue it would have presented by now.

If it can happen, it will happen.
The numbers of people out there hunting must be on the rise, and likewise the chopper operators.
Surely the slim chances of an airborne shooter sending a shot into a dangerous direction can only be increasing.
One day, it will be in the headlines I am sure. Just how soon?

Originally Posted by 40mm

If it can happen, it will happen.
The numbers of people out there hunting must be on the rise, and likewise the chopper operators.
Surely the slim chances of an airborne shooter sending a shot into a dangerous direction can only be increasing.
One day, it will be in the headlines I am sure. Just how soon?

More chance of being shot by a fellow hunter, happens nearly every year and they still allow it, so your point is surely moot.

Originally Posted by Moutere

More chance of being shot by a fellow hunter, happens nearly every year and they still allow it, so your point is surely moot.

True.
There is still the issue of it being rude (not to mention potentially dangerous) for an airborne shooter to be operating above public land where anyone can be shooting.

If the chopper guys and the ground guys are both allowed to hunt the same spot at the same time then there is a problem.
Surely Doc can organise it a bit better.

I might be a little bias against anything associated with Doc, so if I am being a bit ignorant, then that is why.

Originally Posted by 40mm

If it can happen, it will happen.
The numbers of people out there hunting must be on the rise, and likewise the chopper operators.
Surely the slim chances of an airborne shooter sending a shot into a dangerous direction can only be increasing.
One day, it will be in the headlines I am sure. Just how soon?

Wonder if the chopper boys have ever taken incoming?

Originally Posted by caberslash

Wonder if the chopper boys have ever taken incoming?

Not recently but back many years when it started it was common. Aircraft Mechanic mate of Dad's in Gore used to complain about it.
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Ed to add. Google deer wars, shootings, arson, sabotage both by ground shooters and compeditors. Airforce ended up being sent in to monitor.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/deer-and-deer-farming/page-2

Originally Posted by caberslash

Wonder if the chopper boys have ever taken incoming?

35-40yrs ago when deer were worth $$$ and helicopters were going in to guys back paddocks. there was a pilot got shot in the arse In the hills of gisborne. The farm had put a warning in local papers about poaching in helicopters and one day he had enough, the bullet went through helicopter in to the pilots arse. Helicopter had to make a emergency landing on the property. Farmer made the call to police to say he thinks a helicopter has been shoot.
that ended the poaching on the property.
Farmer was taking to court but the bullet that was found never match any of the farmers guns so unsure who fired shot, farmer was found not guilty

Totally different to waro on doc land