Low flight and wildlife

"Newps" wrote in message
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Happened here in Montana. They weren't drunk and they both lived.
Backseat passenger was the shooter. Problem was he was using a semi
automatic shotgun. He started to drop the gun and started reaching for
it. Before he knows it 3-4 shots ring out. He about blew the wing off
the plane. The damage caused the plane to be uncontrollable. They
started spinng down. Luckily they were only a couple hundred feet in the
air. Big crash. Both guys hurt but survive. Entire operation perfectly
legal. That's how we hunt coyotes here in the West. The USDA also hunts
coyotes with Cubs and helicopters as well as private parties.

I learned to fly as a kid to help a neighbor hunt wolves from a Cub. At
that time there was a $35 bounty on timber wolves and it was legal to shoot
them from an airplane. The gunner sat in the back and I flew from the front
seat. My first "interesting" landing occurred when we were tracking a wolf
alongside the edge of a wheatfield and he saw our shadow and jinked to the
side just as the gunner was lining up to shoot. He followed the jink and
shot the wheel off the airplane. He made me land it, even if it was his
airplane! It was two years after that when I went off to the University of
Minnesota in 1955 that I discovered all about CFI, Logbooks, and RULES for
obtaining a license to fly an airplane! Eventually I jumped through all of
the hoops and dotted all the "i's" and crossed all the "t's" and now I are a
licensed commercial pilot! :-)

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