All right chaps, just sit tight and I'll send a couple along to you............
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All right chaps, just sit tight and I'll send a couple along to you............
stills first then video
Disapointing!
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Station Air Ltd
345 Montalto Road RD 8
Ashburton 7778
fukon retards, bunch of hero's right there.
Does this sort of thing break any rules or is it just looked at as not very sporting?
Thought you did well to keep calm - I would have been f'in furious! is that up on the land that used to be part of the Mesopotania station but got converted to DOC land some years back?
Yes I agree, but there are certain people who don't give a f*&k how they get their "trophy", as long as they do and then get to rub cocks and egos with their mates.
Then add in the "buzz" of "tracking the beast down with a hughes before mowing him down" (insert yank accent) and you've got a product to sell. Many rich "hunters" who are insecure about their hunting ability and need a regular ego hit, or have more money than brains lap this sh*t up. Ethics mean nothing to these people, they want the pat on the back, and don't care how they get it.
Obviously I'm referring only to the guys that do this helihunting and think its ok. I'm not discriminating against rich yanks (or arabs or Asian etc etc), as I know there are a lot of paying hunters from overseas that would always prefer to do a hunt the hard way.
Sorry Josh, down the page on the report? I'm missing something :/
Apologies mate, heres the full link;
[EXCLUSIVE] Illegal helicopter hazing of Tahr caught on camera - Whale Oil Beef Hooked | Whaleoil Media
Yeah you are right. Its sad really. Id rather slog my guts out and sleep well at night knowing the few Chamois and Tahr heads I have in my shed Ive got the old fashioned way. Climb- stalk - shoot - descend.
I think the animals deserve more respect than to be mowed down in that fashion. Pretty appalling really.
Bullshit. So sad. Especially on DOC land. I don't see how this is hunting at all. Will be interesting to see govt/DOC follow up with such solid evidence.
As sad as it is everyone knows it happens. Good on the guys for filming and doing something about it
Shame the cops can't confiscate the chopper for 28 days then if the fine and storage costs not paid it gets crushed along with the guys license
Well.... If they were pigs getting driven toward the shooters we would think that looks great fun. If they are happy getting there trophy like that I have no issue other than them fuckn up someone else's hunt. (As long as there are no laws broken). not how i would want to get my trophy tahr tho.
Fuck me senseless. I am utterly speechless.
if I had been where the camera man was, I would have had a couple of long range shots...now, that would piss them off.
Little sense of achievement. Hunting has gone to the poodles.
A guy in wairoa shot and grounded a helicopter poaching on a farm years ago. I met the guy never really talked to him but dad was telling me about it. Cracked me up
I'd like to shoot stuff from a helicopter it looks like great fun, Wouldnt feel the same shooting a trohpy that I would have stalked though.
Also should add I never watched the video
What's the penalty for shooting a private aircraft out of the air?
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Just to make this clear, this sort of behavior was to be made illegal and I thought it was passed?
At the end of Joshes link it says its not illegal in NZ?
Any way we can all boycott the operator and email the vid to our friends and family with the operator details. I will be.
Fuckin pathetic really, they should hang there heads in shame, fair enough if its a private block and thats how they want to do it, but taking an animal in that manor that other people put a lot of hard work into is fuckin disgraceful, they should hang their heads in shame.
I would love to have a shoot from a chopper, some of those clips from america shooting the pigs from the chopper looks like a hoot but its a whole different kettle of fish and in no way related just because they both involve a gun and a helicopter. Theres no way I would partake in something like that let alone get a buzz out of it.
Pigs in texas from choppers? watched a lot of videos of that :)
Toby give the vid another go, its just stills to start with then flicks to video which may have tricked you to think your speed was kack, i nearly did the same.
stationair is operated by laurie prouting owner of mesopatamia station , he also does live capture for safari blocks
I asked dad he said the guy only got about 5 years for shooting that helicopter. Not much time really is it
@Gibo I tried thought I was in cause a pic came up of a black chopper but it took for ever to start.
Cock Smokers!!!!!
I see it as adventure tourism rather than hunting. Where there is a demand, some one will endeavour to make a dollar out of it.
It should be relegated to private land though, if he is found to have flouted the terms of his concession to operate on public land then hopefully he loses them altogether.
Good point about everyone being ok with it if it was a mob of pigs.
Its a bit different shooting a species that is easy and plentiful for everyone, especially if its not a species that is predominantly hunted for trophies. Those poor buggers on the camera had slogged their guts out to get up to their hunt only to watch those idiots turn up and stir up the whole hill side.
The only reasonable excuse I could see for someone to take and animal in this fashion is if they were disabled to the point where they couldn't negotiate the terrain on their own two feet.
Agreed, the guys filming we're let down by the concession system.
I assume old mate was blatantly flouting the rules allowing him to operate commercially on public land, hopefully he is taken to task for it.
Anyone would be upset to have their day ruined like that and rightly so, that's why it should be kept to private land.
I don't get the extra emotion attached when it's game animals being hazed, over feral animals ?
Please define "game and "feral"
I dont have an issue with choppers being used as a control measure for an out of control population,Ie pigs in parts of America at the moment and deer here in the past.
And while Im not for it I am neither against WARO as generally it is only when populations are highish and the game is being "used" as opposed to poisoned and it is providing jobs and revenue for the country.
One could argue herding/hazing is also providing revenue/jobs but it is relatively insignificant compared to "real" hunting and the dollars spent.
Hey if you want to provide that service on privately owned land the public cant access to make a mint out of rich useless fat wankers well and good but i still dont think its fair to the animals.
I suppose its a bit like spot lighting. frowned on by many. and no its not real hunting.
but so many of these lines get crossed, shooting in a open paddock instead of bush. using a quad bike to get around, long range hunting. night vision. binos. anything that seems to give the hunter a un-fair edge. where do you draw the line. and for what reason. is meat hunting ok. but not if its got good antlers. why would it be ok for pigs and not tahr...
but for the record, I wouldn't do that kind of hunting.
Its not that blurry really....I think its pretty well defined.
I spotlight occasionally legally on private property with permission. Its not hunting its spotlighting(my view and in most cases is pest control keeping feral animals off of crops/new grass) but it is not herding/hazing(this means chasing around the mountainside until exhausted so you can drop some lazy prick near by and literally heard them to him so he can shoot it in the arse six times!) to exhastion