Reeder Custom Guns - Hog hunting

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Hope this works, if it does that will be me on the right holding an AK47.

With his best friend. One guy in the left door and one in the right door. At one point the guy in the right door .. my neighbor's friend .. reached for a new magazine and fired a round through his ankle.

They been doing this for several years but he just got in a hurry and had his finger on the trigger.

Blew his ankle clean out of his leg.

They flew directly to the hospital ... doctors are not sure they can save his lower leg.

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from a chopper. I realize we need to thin out the herd drastically but just blasting away from a chopper just doesn't seem right to me. You shoot into a herd of 40 or so and a couple fall over and the rest run into the brush. How many of them were wounded to die a week or so down the road from gangrene? That just doesn't seem right to me. I have no problem killing them but the wounding a bunch and letting them run off to die later just seems to go against what a hunter stands for.
Just my thoughts on the subject.

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Many passes back over an area cleaning up the wounded. I am sure we leave one occasionally but it isn’t on purpose. It’s really easy to see the damage that they do from 200 feet up.

If this offends anyone please feel free to delete.

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I agree with Gary on wounded. You can bet the ankle gets the best of care while game is allowed to suffer.

Then again, owning a 1/2 mile stretch of land with a hog problem, sometimes I want them to suffer.

In the end, they are hogs. Just doing what they do. That's why I won't poison animals as well.

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to make every shot count, never spray & pray. When I turned 16 my Dad took me to Woolworth in downtown Nashville. Their sporting goods department was in the basement. There was a big stack of military rifles in the middle of the floor in 30-06 sale priced at $12.50. Dad told me to pick out one. There was one with a blonde stock, already sporterized. I got that one and a box of FMJ ammo. When I got home Dad took the rifle and took the follower and magazine spring out so it only held one round. That is probably what got me into the one shot train of thought. He also stressed to me to never leave a wounded animal in the field. I have tried to live up to that rule and as far as I know I have never left a wounded animal out there.

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and this method of shooting hogs is clearly an exterminating process to benefit the farmers...really no different than exterminating rats in the barn. I don't think anyone cared if the rats suffered. Growing up on a large horse farm, I exterminated a lot of rats and never cared about how the rats felt about it.

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animals and no man worth a damn would go along with massive wounding of any groups of animals. If you like to do so, then go ahead and do it but don't ever consider yourself a hunter.

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Many as 6 shooters up, 3 per side and 1 of them is a safety officer. I am the safety officer on the right side and we always have a safety briefing before we go up. Also your the reason I posted this picture, I had saved some directions On how to that you had posted and I just ran across them.

Shooting hogs and coyotes from a helicopter is the most fun you can have with your clothes on!! Unless you shoot your self in the ankle. I hope he recovers ok.

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Do you do guided hunts? We been looking at different websites. We use dogs, thermal, and traps. Still can't keep up with them. Killed over 90 last year. Would love to try it from a helicopter.

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We mainly help the ranchers in this area who have hog problems or coyote problems. There are quite a few people that offer this opportunity but we don’t.

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Hog hunting

Neighbor was hunting hogs in his friend's helicopter ...

I am not sure how I feel about shooting hogs

I agree with you Gary, we make

I'm on the fence with this isuue...

growing up it was pounded into my thick skull

There is a big difference between hunting and exterminating

we are not talking about rats. We are talking game

Exactly

Could not agree more with that.

I'M WITH YOU GARY!

I agree with you Gary

I hate to hear that, we have taken as

Culling operations from chopper, rare chance!

Helicopter hunting

Geoffrey, sorry we don’t do guided hunts