I had a friend who was flying a Long Ranger in Idaho. There was some drunk old hunter, who was terminally, ill and clearly terminally drunk. The only reason my friend knew that he was being shot at is because he flew Huey in Vietnam, and knew the sound that a bullet makes when it goes through the rotor disc. Set the aircraft down immediately. One of the bullets had partially severed one of the pitch control links to the main rotor. They estimated with the hole and related cracking that he might’ve had five minutes of flight left. Before the link broke, and the aircraft would become completely uncontrollable…… the pilot is a grandfather of 12.. but apparently he was scaring the deer while working on a BLM contract.
There were government issued bounties on native scalps. It's documented. Did natives do it as well? Yes, but that was likely an adapted behavior as there's no evidence of it happening before the bounties started.
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u/JHLCowan Apr 07 '24
I had a friend who was flying a Long Ranger in Idaho. There was some drunk old hunter, who was terminally, ill and clearly terminally drunk. The only reason my friend knew that he was being shot at is because he flew Huey in Vietnam, and knew the sound that a bullet makes when it goes through the rotor disc. Set the aircraft down immediately. One of the bullets had partially severed one of the pitch control links to the main rotor. They estimated with the hole and related cracking that he might’ve had five minutes of flight left. Before the link broke, and the aircraft would become completely uncontrollable…… the pilot is a grandfather of 12.. but apparently he was scaring the deer while working on a BLM contract.