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March 5, 2013, 04:55 AM | #1 |
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Hogs by helicopter.....
The Nuge and Pigman killed over 450 pigs in 2 and a half days....This was on the ranch I hunt a part of....note: They were killed and the meat was donated to feed the hungry....Thats a lot of pork....
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March 5, 2013, 07:08 AM | #2 |
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Was that with Heli Hunters in East Texas? Any idea on the $$$?
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March 5, 2013, 08:13 AM | #3 |
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I have no idea of the cost?
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March 5, 2013, 08:40 AM | #4 |
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Gonna throw some fuel on the fire here-
I am opposed to using helicopters to hunt game, I think it sets a terrible precedent and is incompatible with hunting ethics sunaj |
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Vertex, minimum of $350 per person, $600 per hour, 3 hour minimum, and they supply guns, ammo, training, and copter, and flight. Heli Hunters charges.... $1,000.00/hr for one hunter $1,500.00/hr for two shooters* $200 minimum for overnight stay for party of 4 (food and drink provided) $50.00 per additional person Can accomodate up to 10 people Quote:
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March 5, 2013, 09:04 AM | #6 |
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Hogs by helicopter.....
Hogs aren't "game". They're a destructive, invasive species that is best eradicated at every opportunity. Fair chase rules do not apply.
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March 5, 2013, 09:11 AM | #7 |
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It is a gimmik for TV. On the show they kill only a couple per episode, not very efficient. And, this isn't 'game'. It is supposed to be an eradication effort of vermin. Trapping and/or shooting from the ground would be far more efficient, and far less expensive.
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March 5, 2013, 09:12 AM | #8 |
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Then don't call it hunting.
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March 5, 2013, 10:19 AM | #9 |
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This discussion will not become a discussion on the ethics involved in eradicating ANY nuisance animal species so long as the discussed methods are legal in the locale the thread is about...
Legal in Texas... Good to go so long as the rules of law are followed... If you do not agree with the legal methods used, then say so but that is as far it will go... I am all about the ethics and humane kill etc... For game species as a state's resource... Heck, i will blood trail a gut shot critter for miles in the worst weather but that black cat I thought I missed with the 20 gauge last week, I just figured if wounded it will die eventually and if a clean miss, it won't likely be back... Couple days ago I see the dogs playing with a black cat's head... Guess my shot wasn't so low afterall Brent |
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I have only spoken with a few folks who have been helihunting and all killed more hogs in one half hour session than they had ever killed on a given hunt. It may be a gimmick, but one that yields typically much higher returns for hunters than they ever experience anywhere else. As a professional hunter, Quaca probably hasn't eradicated as many pigs so fast while hunting and Nugent probably has not either. Heck for all of 2012, the good folks over at Texas Hunting Forum only took 2067 hogs. Most of those folks are your average occasional weekend or holiday hunter/trapper. http://www.texashuntingforum.com/for...pics/3919937/1 Given all the folks that hunt hogs when they can, most only manage a few hogs per year. That they can pay (through the nose) and take more in half an hour or an hour than they probably would take all year long otherwise is a big improvement. Heck, and given what some folks invest in going on hunting trips, a helihunt cost relative to pigs yielded may actually be economically more efficient than going on a whole series of hunts throughout the year to get the same number of hogs or less. Time-wise relative to hog yield, it certainly would be more efficient.
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I just thought some folks might be interested in what was done to help with this problem.....I know of no other way to get this type of result so quickly.....Normally..would take 6 months to a full year and many hunters and trappers to get these kind of numbers.....Anyway..I figure it will be televised at some point in the future..... DNS..not sure how it was worked out..finances that is.....
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It's got to be wicked fun.... The first time in my life I'd want to own an AR.
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they should just invite Franz Albrecht
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIBEwY4_Yqc let him up in a helicopter sure being up in the air makes it harder but many people in those vids take like 10 shots per pig. And you mostly see ARs and regardless of legality I would use a bigger calibre, sure shot placement is everything but still |
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I didn't say my AR would be .223 or even that it would be a "15".
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isn't there one AR calibre that is supposed to mimick 45-70? I'd take that but it be hella hard to judge how much infront AND how much above with it probably being a glorified potatocanon (runs and hides)
now've seen heli hunting, and there is a video with a mini-gun and hog hunting, how long until they combine it? |
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450 hogs can do some serious property damage. Personally I think those 450 hogs are better off feeding the hungry. It is legal, helps those in need, helps quell the impact hogs have on property and other wildlife. |
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You can kill the same amount of hogs in a matter of hours using a helicopter that would take you a week or more by more "traditional" methods. If we can eradicate these by spending more in the immediate time period, it will save a whole lot of money in the long run. Therefore, it will not be more expensive, and it is much more effective. |
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A few years back, the Noble foundation, did a survey along with several state departments. They estimated in the state of Oklahoma, there were around 500,000 hogs with a presence in all 77 counties.
In Texas they estimated a population of 2.6 million hogs that do around 550 million dollars A YEAR in crop damage. I feel like I am an ethical hunter, but living in Southeastern Oklahoma, and close to the northern Texas border, I can tell you this is not hunting, it is WAR. I makes no difference to me how this vermin is taken out, as long as it works. If there is the benefit of someone gaining some groceries, then so be it, but I doubt that anyone here is going to feel to bad about how they are eradicated. |
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Well you can call it eradication or whatever,
think what a public hunting festival this could have been if they would have opened it up to hunters, all the fees people would have paid going toward game management, the fun of hunting and resolving an overpopulstion etc. |
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March 5, 2013, 05:51 PM | #22 |
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That's a lot of fancy words,
let me get this right- we have a critter that can be hunted all year long, lots of people are dying to find something to hunt esp in the off season, this critter has several hundred pound of excellent meat, that is good for human consumption and animal feed, and you are telling me the only way to solve this problem is to kill them en mass from a helicopter??? Give everyone a break, Jeeze-we spend $$$ from the public trough raising fish/fowl/game to replenish animal stocks so we have something to hunt/fish, and this is a made-for-hunters scenario; you know we have landowners here in Ca who are crying about pigs tearing up their property, except these same greedy B* want to charge hunter $500 to take a pig on their land-they are getting what their greed is asking for, open it up to hunting, make the tags free or nearly free with no limit-and you have some exciting hunting for a lot of people |
March 5, 2013, 05:56 PM | #23 |
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Re: Hogs by helicopter.....
No sunaj, the only way to fix this problem is to kill them en masse by any and all means possible, not just using a helicopter. If you want to hunt them then there are plenty of ways to do that. But hunting, by definition, is a strategy of wildlife management. We are not trying to manage these animals, we are trying to... wait for it..... eradicate them.
Sure, if you want some meat for the freezer come get a hunting license and find a place to hunt and set up a blind. Get yourself a pig and be happy. But you will not be helping us get rid of them simply by killing two or three each year... |
March 5, 2013, 05:58 PM | #24 |
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Nonsense
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