Thread: Just experienced Heli-Hunting first hand

Originally Posted by JoshC

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

Ok, I see how you took that, not intentional,- wasn't calling you one, was generalising in reference to them (unless you were in fact an operator)

Only some of them are actually cowboys, they just happen to be the attention getters, and having had lead in the air headed in my general direction from one, colours my perception. And there is no desire to go around shooting at them, it is frustrating that they apear to be able to operate on public land with impunity.

Infamatory statement? yes, acually intended as it sounds? umm,no.
Boy sneaks dads car, brand new Beamer out while dad is away, crashes it in the stone gate post at home cause he can't really drive yet. Mum comes home at screams, "dads gonna kill you when he gets home!!!", Do the neighbours call the armed offenders out? Is dad really gonna kill him?

It is a question of context. No I do not avocate shooting at Heli hunt machines, the statemant is simply indicative of the feeling that the cowboy operators generate

WARO is a related but different problem

If there were definative areas and boundries that were observed, there would be no problem, how to actually achieve this, I do not know.