This last June I was at JC during the Super Cub flyin. I met a real nice guy from Nebraska/Oklahoma area that had some great pics of a group of cub drivers hunting coyotes. As he put it, they had a great time really hammering them. Anyway, he had this one pic of a cub flying with no fewer than 6 or 8 coyotes hanging from any part of a cub that they could hang one from. Looks like a blast. If anyone knows who this is, or has some similar pics, I'd love to see them. Please pass this request on, it's worth sharing with everyone!

I saw those picturesd at JC also. I doubt anybody would post them since somebody made a big deal on another website about having a external load permit.

Bummer, but that is kind of what I thought too. If anyone wants to email them to me, I'd take that too.

I don't know what your stand is on hammering coyotes from a plane, but those were some cool pics and it looked like more fun than a person should be allowed to have. I'd love to try it sometime.

Grassstrippilot wrote:I don't know what your stand is on hammering coyotes from a plane, but those were some cool pics and it looked like more fun than a person should be allowed to have.

Not that I'd ever admit to anything, but it sure is fun herding coyotes with a Cessna or Cub. Just gotta wipe the fur off the prop when you're done...

And... To appease the PETA crowd, sometimes the coyotes win. When playing that close to the ground one had best pay close attention to what you're doing, or the coyotes will do to you what the bears did to Fossett.

Gump

I know a guy that herded some antelope in his ultralight in eastern oregon several years ago, and yeah, it was fun. He felt mildly guilty afterward, having possibly traumatized them, but he got over it.

1SeventyZ wrote:I know a guy that herded some antelope in his ultralight in eastern oregon several years ago, and yeah, it was fun. He felt mildly guilty afterward, having possibly traumatized them, but he got over it.

I learned at Ft. Hood that if your good enough, you can chase Jackrabbits with an eight ton helicopter until they fall over dead. Good use of your tax dollars as it only cost $3,500 an hour to fly an Apache.

Your are right it is really a hoot....... After leaving Alaska I got into hunting yotes with a cub. A lot more fun and opportunities then spending days looking for a wolf in Alaska. After 2 months chasing yotes we ended up with 60 yotes and broke even at the fur sale. But we sure had fun getting it done.

Grassstrippilot wrote:
I don't know what your stand is on hammering coyotes from a plane, but those were some cool pics and it looked like more fun than a person should be allowed to have. I'd love to try it sometime.

Step back in time about 40 years, and we were huntin coyotes in an old Aeronca Champ that I had, with the door removed, so we could shoot out the right side. The shooter had an old .22 pump with an octagon barrel and a dished out brass butt plate, that he rarely missed with. Very seldom, did we have to come back around for a second pass.

Guess the statute of limitations is run out now, so.. he may have shot some antelope, ducks, and geese all from the air too.. I never was that great of a shot, but that guy amazed me daily with that little 22.

We even bombed a friend once with a coyote we had picked up, guess looking back we were lucky we missed him... (or maybe he was the lucky one).

I don't know what to think about people that shoot coyotes from planes!!

Coyote Ugly wrote:Guess the statute of limitations is run out now, so.. he may have shot some antelope, ducks, and geese all from the air too.. I never was that great of a shot, but that guy amazed me daily with that little 22.

We even bombed a friend once with a coyote we had picked up, guess looking back we were lucky we missed him... (or maybe he was the lucky one).

Stuff like this is why it's a good thing I didn't start flying when I was a youngster. I probably wouldn't have grown up to be an oldster.

tom

When I was up in Alaska, '47 to '51, they paid a $50,00 bounty on wolves.
Gas was $.32/gal. so a weekend hunting flight in my airplane, an L-5G, was a cheap diversion that occasionally paid off.
We normally used a 12 gauge shotgun, but one time I killed one with the first shot with a .270 Remington rifle. Hit him right ih the head. He was certainly no more surprized than me. My friends insisted it was dumb luck, but, after all, wasn't that what I was trying to do?