Bet you wish you could shoot like him…

[Triggermortis]

 

[Smelly Yeti]

Holy - that guys definitely had a previous career….

 

[ColinJ]

Wow!

 

[weblyish]

Holy - that guys definitely had a previous career….

Holy **** indeed

Definitely a guy you want on your side in a battle

 

[Swedish]

The very definition of "Don't bother running, you'll just die tired"

 

[Bo Diddley]

I reckon he spent some considerable time in his youth playing games on Xbox... and was jolly good... nice to see a professional at work.

 

[John Gryphon]

I`m sure that some of you blokes sleep under a rock and I don`t know where you blokes have been but I have posted three perhaps four of the Aussie shooters doing these culls.
Interesting though in this one a big sow wore two solid hits and needed the third to drop her.

 

[Bo Diddley]

I`m sure that some of you blokes sleep under a rock and I don`t know where you blokes have been but I have posted three perhaps four of the Aussie shooters doing these culls.
Interesting though in this one a big sow wore two solid hits and needed the third to drop her.

I always enjoy your posts, John, especially the photography

 

[Bo Diddley]

All that brass going to waste

 

[John Gryphon]

All that brass going to waste

you would think a catcher net could easily be hung up.

 

[Donkey Basher]

The real skill there is the guy doing the flying - once he’s got the line & speed right basic physics takes over, shooter travelling at same speed as target = point & shoot, no need for line & lead in the aim.

 

[The Singing Stalker]

Wow, I presume the carcasses are left there as the distances they travel don’t make it viable to recover them.

 

[John Gryphon]

Wow, I presume the carcasses are left there as the distances they travel don’t make it viable to recover them.

40 million blowflys cant be wrong

 

[MilesW]

The real skill there is the guy doing the flying - once he’s got the line & speed right basic physics takes over, shooter travelling at same speed as target = point & shoot, no need for line & lead in the aim.

Absolutely. But, the shooter is exceptionally good, and has to be in total sync with the pilot. I know a team over this side that achieve similar results - mostly donkeys though - with bolt action rifles due to the prohibition on semi-auto's here. 10 round mag restriction too.

 

[MilesW]

Wow, I presume the carcasses are left there as the distances they travel don’t make it viable to recover them.

Between John's 40 million blowies, and all the other scavengers, the carcases don't last long.

 

[tackb]

The real skill there is the guy doing the flying - once he’s got the line & speed right basic physics takes over, shooter travelling at same speed as target = point & shoot, no need for line & lead in the aim.

hows that then ? does the bullet magic itself across the gap ?

when the bullet leaves the gun the target is still moving while it crosses the gap to the target therefore it will be in a different place to where it was when the bullet left the gun so without lead you will shoot behind

or are my physics wrong ?

 

[Liveonce]

What happens to all the dead pigs?

 

[MilesW]

What happens to all the dead pigs?

Left where they drop for nature to do what nature does.

 

[RescueMe0007]

The dingo and feral predator numbers in these areas must be significant, of course any remaining feral pigs will use the carcasses as well. Definitely needs to be done, feral pigs are exceptionally damaging on an environment.

 

[Donkey Basher]

hows that then ? does the bullet magic itself across the gap ?

when the bullet leaves the gun the target is still moving while it crosses the gap to the target therefore it will be in a different place to where it was when the bullet left the gun so without lead you will shoot behind

or are my physics wrong ?

Go to about 2:55 in this video - the subject matter is different but the principle is the same.



Basically the bullet already has momentum in the direction the helicopter is travelling, if the chopper & pig are moving at the same speed & in the same direction at the ranges they’re shooting at there is little if any deflection or aiming off required ie point & shoot.