bush pilot story

[jsoceanlord]

apparently you're not allowed to use planes for hunting in alaska.

so these pilots painted their piper cubs in camouflage and they'd go out and land in the bush.

the game wardens, flying around overhead, couldn't spot them on the ground. but of course, back at anchorage airport, the wardens could see the camouflaged paint and they knew what was going on

 

[Chunk]

Dude,

Do you smoke it up before you post these nuggets or do you constantly stay high?

 

[A Squared]

apparently you're not allowed to use planes for hunting in alaska.

Airplanes are used all the time for hunting in Alaska, it's all quite legal.

 

[WrightAvia]

funny you should bring that up A squared

We used to hunt from the air in piper cubs and cessna planes all the time up in Alaska. Our best technique was to use specially trained african hunting chimpanzees. We would turn on a point over the area where we like to hunt, let the chimpanzee down on a rope and harness. We would do this at an altitude high enough to where when the chimp was alit on the surface, the rope just twirled a bit just behind the chimp, while we lazily circled the point. Sometimes we would circle the other direction so the rope wouldn't get so wound up like a rubber band.

One time we lost a prize moose and had to retire a gimpy chimp after just such a fiasco. We had let the hunting chimp down and he was rumaging around for game and that horny bastage was like speed mounting every rabbit he came across...must have been rutting season for chimps. Well anyway it was so humorous to watch him pounding on them rabbits, we forgot how many turns on the point we did and the rope gets all wound up.

So the chimp finally tires of the rabbits and gets to work on some serious game hunting, scaring up this moose and lassos it. The chimp looks up at us and gives us the sign to hoist him and his catch up. So we start hoisting this chimp and moose up and no sooner than they left the ground, they's started a spinning and a spinning, round and round. Spinning worse than the space plane on the begining credits of that old show "6 Million Dollar Man". It was horrible to watch.

By the time we got our chimp back on board we had rectum and the only part of the moose we had left was the assneck, still left in the lasso. Not our best day hunting.

 

[Brother Francis]

Matthias: One creature, caught. Caught in a place he cannot stir from in the dark, alone, outnumbered hundreds to one, nothing to live for but his memories, nothing to live with but his gadgets, his cars, his guns, gimmicks... and yet the whole family can't bring him down from that, that...

Omega Man. What a classic "here is what your evil ways will get you, but God has not forsaken you" post-apocalypse cold war flick.

 

[WrightAvia]

Omega man will soon be out on DVD in aug

Plus they are going to make ANOTHER movie based on that book that Omega Man 1971 movie was based on. The name of the book is called "I am Legend" written by Richard Matheson. A movie called "Last Man On Earth" staring Vincent Price, had been based on that book along time ago also, in fact it was in black in white and came out a decade or so before Omega Man.

So now they are working on a modern movie version of the book and that movie is called "I am Legend". Should be interesting to see how it comes out. I have read the book and it is pretty interesting...like the Omega Man movie, but not quite the same.

http://home.earthlink.net/~theomegaman/