Hunting with a drone

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Hunting with a drone

Post by Browning » 08 Aug 2016, 6:42 pm

Keen to hear if anyone's giving it a whirl yet? Last few weeks I've able to try a few different drones and I've gotta say, I've been blown away and I can't help but think of a heap of applications out bush...
Lot of properties we go to have huge fields of crop and being able to "sweep" or survey them from 20-30m up would open up a whole new world of feral eradication....
I've been playing with the Phantom 4 and it looks unreal...
Scoping out dams, crops, tracking running pigs, viewing terrain; it's gonna make the job of finding them a lot easier...
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by pete1 » 08 Aug 2016, 7:12 pm

Can see the potential of using a drone.
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Post by bladeracer » 08 Aug 2016, 7:18 pm

Probably illegal for deer but certainly would be useful for ferals.
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Post by Oldbloke » 08 Aug 2016, 7:19 pm

I must be old school. Sounds like shooting pigs in a pen to me.
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Post by Browning » 08 Aug 2016, 7:26 pm

I see your point of being old school.. I've thought the same thing myself...
Still plenty of times you'll have to get into that lime bush/lignum and flush em out, but I think of it as just another "tool" to help find them...(and by the way, I'm mainly talking about pigs)
Just one example would be the huge fields of wheat/sorghum/oats where we go... You just know there's pigs camped up at in the middle but you can't ride out/walk out cos of the size and damage a bike would do.....
River country also be good to cover... I look at it a bit like using a sounder when you're out fishing... Still gotta hook and land it, just another tool...
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Post by Oldbloke » 08 Aug 2016, 7:37 pm

Im hearing you. For a farmer when numbers are high, I can understand why they would be considered, like spot lighting I guess.

Just not my cup of tea, or is that stubbie. :drinks:
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Post by on_one_wheel » 08 Aug 2016, 7:39 pm

Can you use it to muster them into a spot that you want them, like just the right spot to shoot em from your deck chair?
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by Browning » 08 Aug 2016, 7:43 pm

All good mate... I reckon the farmers where we go will be stoked to know we can flush em off crop with minimal damage....
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Post by happyhunter » 09 Aug 2016, 1:16 pm

Pointless to spotting bunnies unless you want to spook them. Just another useless gadget that would take time away from actual hunting.
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by Die Judicii » 09 Aug 2016, 1:36 pm

Browning wrote:Keen to hear if anyone's giving it a whirl yet?.


Given it a "whirl" yet,,,, :lol: That's perilously close to being a play on words. :lol:

The idea sounds great.
If you could find their nest while their all snoozing in the midday sun, maybe the drone could carry and drop a grenade. :silent:
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by sandgroperbill » 09 Aug 2016, 1:40 pm

All of a sudden dirt bike tracks through a crop don't seem so bad...
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by Browning » 09 Aug 2016, 6:15 pm

This is exactly how I'd use it in identical situations... We're we chase them, this is what you're up against.... It's a drone or a chopper...

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Post by BBJ » 29 Sep 2016, 1:36 pm

bladeracer wrote:Probably illegal for deer but certainly would be useful for ferals.


Legalities aside I'm wondering what kind of build drone you need to cope with the recoil of a .270 or there abouts.

And the cost of such a thing. :huh:
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Post by petemacsydney » 29 Sep 2016, 2:48 pm

Got a few "drones" myself. Not planning on using them for hunting directly but thinking of spending some time up in the air to survey the property for pest entry points.
I can cover a distance of at least 16km out and back again so would be nice to see if I can detect any herds/groups etc further out to understand what they are doing.
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by jjb1608 » 02 Oct 2016, 3:19 pm

Why would it be illegal for deer?
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Post by bladeracer » 02 Oct 2016, 3:40 pm

jjb1608 wrote:Why would it be illegal for deer?



Probably more unethical than illegal.
Game is supposed to be actually hunted rather than tracked with electronic aids.

Except in Qld where they spotlight deer.
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Post by jjb1608 » 02 Oct 2016, 6:12 pm

I would think if you can have a look a couple of valleys over to see if it's worth the trek it would be awesome.
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Post by bladeracer » 02 Oct 2016, 6:16 pm

jjb1608 wrote:I would think if you can have a look a couple of valleys over to see if it's worth the trek it would be awesome.



I'm sure it would but hunting is partly about the trek ;-)
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Post by Mitch » 02 Oct 2016, 6:39 pm

Depends on use I suppose.

For instance I don't go pig hunting, I go pig shooting. It is purely pest eradication on family farm. I don't care for a trek, or anything else, it is shoot as many of the bastards before they get away as you can.

In this use I think it would be a huge benefit, and one I intend to trial this coming sorghum season
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Post by bladeracer » 02 Oct 2016, 6:53 pm

Mitch wrote:Depends on use I suppose.

For instance I don't go pig hunting, I go pig shooting. It is purely pest eradication on family farm. I don't care for a trek, or anything else, it is shoot as many of the bastards before they get away as you can.

In this use I think it would be a huge benefit, and one I intend to trial this coming sorghum season



Absolutely fine for vermin, that's not hunting.
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by jjb1608 » 03 Oct 2016, 11:07 am

I don't see it being any different from using a trail cam.
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Post by bladeracer » 03 Oct 2016, 5:06 pm

jjb1608 wrote:I don't see it being any different from using a trail cam.



Trailcams usually aren't real time, though I'm sure there are some that can be viewed remotely these days. Trail cameras just tell you what animals are in the area, they don't tell you exactly where the animal is so you can simply wander over and shoot it.
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Re: Hunting with a drone

Post by bigfellascott » 04 Oct 2016, 11:43 am

One of the downsides to this type of thing would be where you use it, ie ok on private property where you can leave it and then go after what you've found but I can't say I'd be landing a Drone on public land leaving it and heading off after whatever it is you've spotted using it. My mate has a few and they can be handy for diff sorts of things and I suppose they could be used to find deer and pigs etc in open lands but not sure I would race out and buy one for hunting purposes to be honest, I think its one of those "nice in Theory" but not in practice type things.

From memory my mate uses something like google earth to plot his routes that is drone takes, puts in way points etc and it automatically flies the course he's plotted for it, it's a clever bit of kit no doubt about it and we have used it on paddocks for a bit of fun and to check out some of the fire damage that was caused from fires that went through the property before we'd been there so we could send the vid to the owner but we never bothered with it for hunting type purposes as we were only spotlighting and they ain't no help in that situation without some fancy gear strapped to em.

Me I think I'd rather just go for a wander and see what I can see as walking around in the bush is part of the joy of getting out there with a rifle.
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