Thread: Just experienced Heli-Hunting first hand

Originally Posted by 257weatherby

Didn't indulge in any name calling. Read my post as to why I might feel that way. Curiously, the anti gun lobby are quiet on the subject of helicopter gunships relentlessly cruising the skies killing everything. My opinion my be an inflamatory one, and I do take your point, but at what point do you say nothing?, when it is supposed to be a democratic right to have free speech. Perhaps I was trolling for a flyboy tosspot to bite......

Ok mate if thats how you feel then that's fine. If you are referring to me as a flyboy tosspot well you're a bit off the mark there. I enjoy helicopters, have a lot of mates who own or fly helicopters, and I access hunting areas with them ocassionally but would not know the first thing about flying one - other than there is a joystick, a lever and some pedals.

I hunt on average 8 plus times/days a month, the majority of that hunting being done on public land, the majority of those hunting areas are accessed by my own legs, and I have experienced helihunting and WARO operations first hand on a number of occasions. I believe helihunting needs to be stopped on Public land. Waro I believe has its place and is needed. I have written letters and submissions to the minister on a number of ocassions, written to newspapers and have presented my opinion on both hunting forums as well as on heli forums. But I don't wish any pilot regardless of what they are doing to be upside-down in his machine filled with 30cal holes, nor do I call them f*ckw*t cowboys.

Happy hunting.
Josh