Is it really a ‘hunt’, when you do it from a helo?
Sure it is. An eagle hunts its prey exactly the same way. This is just a new dimension for people wherein one can learn to hunt like a wolf or raptor.
“Is it really a ‘hunt’, when you do it from a helo?”
Shooting from a Helicopter is a lot harder and trickier than shooting from the ground.
A younger relative hunts feral hogs with his bow because there is not that much of a challenge with a 7 mm or 30/06, scoped out from the ground.
Of course with the bow, you had better be quick to reload. Last fall, he popped a big feral hog @ about 60’ with his bow, and the arrow went through both of the hog’s sides of his chest and didn’t bring it down. The 300# plus hog started for my relative. He quickly reloaded and put another arrow in the frontal chest cavity at about 10 yards. The hog with 2/3’s of the arrow in his frontal chest veered away, and went running into a very thick black berry bushes and wasn’t seen. The guide’s dogs refused to go into the thick black berry bushes, and my relative and his quide decided to leave it. The feral hogs that big are not good to eat. The ranchers/property owners want them killed to keep them from destroying their property.