You guys who think buff hunting is boring--
I can understand why you feel that way, but from my point of view...
I guess I'm part hunter, because I love the stalking, the planning...watching and judging my prey. The adrenaline builds; discipline and concentration must be maintained at a high level for an extended period, as you manuver your plane into attack position. Then the moment for attack comes and you must relax and focus on one bomber. You must find that seconds-long window of opportunity that lets you deliver deadly fire. And all the while you must use deception and manuver to throw-off the aim of the defending gunners. What's so boring about that?
Then you've two more bombers to go after, so the fun is far from over. You've only just begun to sweat.
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I go up against bombers all the time. I've had running battles with a formation that went on for 75 miles. And I win. I get one, two, sometimes three kills and land, often without damage. I've methodically shot down a B-17 with a C. 202 and a B-24 with only a few hundred rounds of 12.7 mm from a Ki-84. In neither attack did I sustain any damage.
To take a buff killer to 25k only takes 8-9 minutes, so if I then spend the next 10 minutes shooting down buffs "good enough not to get shot up", then I've really accomplished something requiring a high degree of many skills, I think. And it certainly isn't boring ho'ing a formation of heavy bombers successfully, again and again.
MRPLUTO
