Drones Hauls Deer to Butcher

[EastHumboldt]

I would imagine if you were to try to use a drone for transporting a human, (corner crossing) regulatory agencies would want to regulate or shut you down for safety reasons.

 

[CMF]

Could this be used to corner cross??? Start a new business. Buy a $500k drone, drop hunters into remote backpack areas. The latest "advancement" in hunting, and redefining a "drop camp"......

I promise you this isn’t that far away. This isn’t some Jetson’s stuff. I bet in the next 4-5 years guys will be doing this on YouTube to get behind private.

I agree it probably isn't far off.
In August, I was a 6-hour hike into sheep country with my bowstring jumped off my cams, and I was seriously contemplating whether my kid's drone could fly me an allen wrench, lol.
I could definitely see people making gear and food drops, especially when the hike in is all uphill.

 

[SirChooCH]

I am very against drones for use in hunting season due to the videos this guy puts out. Even for recovery as some like to claim. It would be too easy for me to keep 1 less arrow or bullet in my weapon and claim I am flying a property "for recovery" when just scouting it with thermal.

The same guy recently went viral for showing he can carry 200 lbs of corn in and spread it so you don't leave any scent behind when feeding deer.

In that state it is legal to use a thermal drone to check a property for deer, zoom in and inspect antlers, and then so long as you land the drone its no longer actively being used for hunting. So walk in there with your rifle to the saved pin of bedded buck and shoot it.

Recently a group in Ohio got their facebook taken down from hunter protest, but the business still exists of them taking pictures and pins of deer on different parcels of public land and selling the pins online to pay off their drone.

Its not good and needs to be shut down before it gets out of hand.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Not nearly well enough or in a very enforceable manner. In the last few years alone I have had several instances of drones flying within close range of me while recreating on public land. Several times while fly fishing and one maddening instance while turkey hunting. I guarantee the FAA had no idea about any of them. Is that going to change with larger size drones like in this video?

Did you report this to anyone?

 

[svivian]

Did you report this to anyone?

What would be the expected results?

Its not like a plane with a tail number that you could video (which I have unfortunately had to do before)

Edit: im not implying he shouldnt report it. Just a question for conversation

 

[Nickofthewoods]

Did you report this to anyone?

Yes. Each time I reported to the land management agency's office for where they occurred.

 

[ProRoad]

Our FAA licensed drones have tail numbers, they are just very small. But yes, many people just fly illegally anyway, mostly because the FAA system is a mess to deal with. I hunted Coyotes till last light last night and never took my drone out of the car. It's not what I want from my hunting experience

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Yes. Each time I reported to the land management agency's office for where they occurred.

Good. I’m not sure what else you can do besides that, except also report to the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/faq/how-would-i-report-drone-operator-potentially-violating-faa-rules-or-regulations

I work on the theory that if you complain about it enough, someone will eventually have to do something about it.

 

[Nickofthewoods]

Good. I’m not sure what else you can do besides that, except also report to the FAA.

https://www.faa.gov/faq/how-would-i-report-drone-operator-potentially-violating-faa-rules-or-regulations

I work on the theory that if you complain about it enough, someone will eventually have to do something about it.

Yeah in the future I may do that. I doubt anything happened to the ones I reported to the USFS. One place where I reported a drone at a popular New Mexico State Park actually put up no drones signs at the parking areas just weeks after my report. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to complain about it there though.

 

[Q_Sertorius]

Don’t get me wrong, I want nothing to do with drones, but they are part of our world. Getting our government to enforce the existing regulations requires being willing to report it, not just complain about it on the internet.

I hired one once in an attempt to recover a deer I wounded and couldn’t otherwise find. We didn’t find it, largely because the drone operator couldn’t legally fly over the bordering national forest. But, I am confident that if it had been on my side of the line, we would have found it. We found every other deer on the farm. And, since I didn’t recover that wounded deer, I “tagged myself out” for the year and worked on becoming a better hunter.

I bought a couple of books about tracking (a part of my field craft which I needed to improve anyway) and bought a tracking dog. She and I have been practicing extensively and she’s really good! I think I have all the tools I will ever need right here.