Research-Hunting Footage

For my documentary I don't want to shy away from the truth of the severity of wolf hunting. I want to start my documentary with the footage of aerial hunting to give the shock factor- as well as showing the truth.

Dialogue from clip- “Aerial hunting in Alaska is one of the states secrets. You need a low flying, slow flying aircraft like a super cub. There’s a pilot and sitting behind him is a gunner. And they’re using a shotgun, typically a 12 gate shot gun. It’s in the winter when they can track them and then see them. They’re shooting down onto them and usually one would hope they would get killed straight away, but they often don’t. They’re getting riddled with bug shot and not dying and biting at there backs, in absolute agony and there’s blood everywhere on the snow, it’s not a clean kill. In many cases they can’t even hit the wolf from the air, so what they do is chase them until they’re totally exhausted, and then they land and shoot them. It’s a brutal way to go."

Stills from hunting footage