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Unmanned drones revisited

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If the stalker posted that, the authorities could/should use the post to track the creep down.

A guy I work with has one of those like the link picture. He says he uses it for his real estate side business. I told him the things are fair game to me and my neighbors... He said he gets owner permission before any overflight/photo sessions. Hmm.
 
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His getting permission is definitely NOT the norm. From what I've seen, the things are piloted here and there, just randomly looking for whatever catches their attention. Everything from sunbathers to wildlife. Which I guess sunbathers are just another form of wildlife. But I digress.
Sooner or later, I figure this is gonna get regulated. And it should be, since it is being abused. I've read several stories where the landowner didn't want anyone flying over his property, for whatever reason. The drone pilots are all excited about it, but I figure reasonable privacy concerns trump their right to fly willy nilly everywhere, especially when there are cameras involved. The probability that somebody is gonna down one with a shotgun gets higher everyday. The drone operators all wanna scream destruction of private property, but I figure invasion of privacy is just as important. Biggest problem I see is somebody shooting AT a drone, but you can't control where the excess shot, or the missed shot with a rifle, ends up. Big legal quagmire.
Also, I'm waiting for some bozzo to get caught herding game with one. Blatantly illegal, I know, but when has THAT ever stopped anyone?
I don't own a drone. However, I can see a great many uses for one. I have a few head of cattle, on several hundred acres of cedar covered ranch land. That live camera could save me lots of searching for animals I'm trying to keep track of, cows down calving, the status of water holes, mineral feeders, all kinds of things. But if I can check cows, somebody else can check ME, to see where I am, and where the stock is. Possibilities for all sorts of criminal endeavors abound. Cattle russling DOES still occur in many rural areas.
Bluebonnet season is upon us here in Texas. We love em. But folks, last year especially, just seemed to ASSUME that it was all fine and good to just over fly a big field and take videos of the bluebonnets, and post em on the internet so that EVERYONE could enjoy them. And THAT I don't have a problem with, IF they got permission to overfly MY fields. I'm not saying they're MINE, YOU can't look. I'm saying I have the right to a reasonable amount of privacy, and an eye in the sky that violates that might get a sharp stick poked in it. ASK FIRST!:cool:
 
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I thought they were regulated (recently)? Not that that does anything really. Like firearms laws, only the law-abiding will follow the law.
What had my attention was the determination and focus of the lady in the video. That drone was going away or coming down. Period!

Cheezywan
 
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FAA does require the pilot to take a test and get a license. Many will violate the law. Just research Dakota Access Pipeline n ND. Flying drones in peoples faces, flying to close to manned helicopters, over flying into drill pads, flying inside restricted closed airspace, etc.


CD
 
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This is all very disconcerting! Not only is the stalker in the wrong but each and every individual who views it is re-violating the woman's privacy! I doubt Fox asked for her permission to broadcast video that was taken by a trespasser obviously without her permission.
Rant over!
 
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...as far as the flight proximity to dwellings and livestock. FAA requires manned aircraft to avoid them by at least 500 feet. Greater distance and altitude restrictions for populated areas and various venues.
 
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I know a guy who is a retired Sergeant Major who had one of these things repeatedly flying over his house, which includes a pool his grandkids use. He went to the police and pretty much told them that if it continued, he would use his shotgun on it. They told him they could not condone discharging a firearm in city limits, but overall, the destruction of the drone (if it happened) would be a civil matter and they would not get involved.
 
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in flux



FAA still scrambling on the issue. Drones of 50lb + are all that are required to be "registered" so far. The FAA is semi-panicking on how to regulate/enforce all the loose idiots with their drones. Drones are flooding into the air, like fire ants across the southern states.
 
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I sorta-kinda needed one a week or so ago. Needed to inspect the roofing shingles of a house that sets on a hillside with a precipitously-sloped front yard. The rear roof was entirely visible; the front was not. So I climbed up an old, bent-up ladder that was set on the front porch and saw as much as I could from that angle. The ground was a good ways down; a fall would have been beyond extremely painful if not fatal depending upon the position of my body as I might fall. I saw no loose shingles from my vantage point, so took that as being a good-enough inspection. I did see that the gutters are full of twigs and old leaves and such, so that is another problem. The gutters along the roofline are at least 25 feet from the ground. That's a long fall. The ground slopes away from the foundation so quickly, there is no place to set a manlift or some sort of scaffolding upon which to clean the gutters. Ladders only. My dad, at 87, wants to get up there and clean them. He's old, rickety and still believes himself to be 27 years old. I should call the homeowner in Texas and advise him the gutters need cleaning. I do not need to hear that may dad has injured himself in a fall from such a height...
 
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Locals shot down a drone, said it was bony, tough, and tasted like kerosine. Brought me a bowl I couldn't eat it. Luckily Bubba had killed an owl which we smothered in gravy and served over rice.
 
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I am expecting to see drones referred to in the game laws. If your drone crashes in the lake and explodes are you allowed to pick up the stunned fish? Can one legally persue game or herd it to guns wirh a drone? Are drone decoys legal?
 
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A drone over my place will be shot down and a victory tap dance done on the parts. Anyone trying to retrieve it will not care to repeat the mistake.
I could care LESS if it's illegal to shoot one down, I could care LESS if it's illegal to discharge a firearm and I could care LESS what the owner of the drone thought he was doing. All that will be hashed out AFTER the thing is destroyed. Period. My privacy trumps any trespasser by whatever means are chosen.
 
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I see a need...

I think I see a need for a drone. They could be used to fly out to the target at 600 yards, snap a picture or take some sort of image and fly back so the shooter could see how well he's hitting the target. I see drones can be purchased for about twenty dollars to over ten thousand dollars. These systems that send back a video image of your group as you shoot it are around four hundred dollars. Would it be a profitable idea to procure a $200 drone and use that for viewing your group from afar, as opposed to a $400 video system or walking out there to look?

EDIT: I looked at a few $200 drones. Seems the limit for many of them is 984 feet, which means they'd only be good for 300-yard shooting-- and that may only be under ideal conditions. Could .30-caliber holes be seen from 300 yards with a $200 spotting scope?
 
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Drones of various sizes were regularly offered for sale at the Denver Gun show last year or earlier, but I haven't seen any there lately. I'll check again if I go this weekend.
 
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Read some place that drones are banned from flying over Federal game lands, also a state (Maine) or two have banned them from flying over private property with out permission.
Good moves.


France is training eagles to take out drones. Seems to me if you can't shoot them down over your private property then you could use and eagle to fix the problem and have privacy again.


French Army Trains Eagles to Fight Drone Terrorism | Fortune.com

Eagles are protected just like drones are from shooting down.

People should be able to have their privacy period. If you live in the country and expected to be able to swim in your back yard pool in the day light nude then you should not need to worry about A &*^&^(&% drone.
 
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Read some place that drones are banned from flying over Federal game lands, also a state (Maine) or two have banned them from flying over private property with out permission.
Good moves.


France is training eagles to take out drones. Seems to me if you can't shoot them down over your private property then you could use and eagle to fix the problem and have privacy again.


French Army Trains Eagles to Fight Drone Terrorism | Fortune.com

Eagles are protected just like drones are from shooting down.

People should be able to have their privacy period. If you live in the country and expected to be able to swim in your back yard pool in the day light nude then you should not need to worry about A &*^&^(&% drone.
Put up camouflage netting. I was interested in getting a small drone just for fun, I have a remote controlled toy boat for my pond, but learned I cannot fly over my little 85 acres as I am too near the local airfield. Darn.
 
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The guy that works for me part time has one and we use it often to look at damage by squirrels, woodpeckers to soffets and other high areas, also works good in low clearance/wet nasty crawlspaces. We are extremely careful not to fly it over anyones house except the customer and if the nextdoor neighbor has a pool we have the customer tell them ahead of time we'll be flying a drone overhead. People around here have a very low tolerance for drones over their property, as it should be, they are a big invasion of privacy wrongly used as far as I'm concerned.
 
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