Melbourne cup day very expensive for me

[Blr243]

Who else did 4500 bucks ?

[TassieTiger]

Wtf. ? Really ?
I’ve never gotten in to horse racing - being a pessimist re fixed races doesn’t help lol. But 4500 ?

[Blr243]

I went to work and for the entire morning was oblivious to the fact that it was cup day. Finished my project , got paid, went to my local club for lunch , had a beer, And a little later I walked into an electronics store that sells drones with thermal cameras. So this is where I came undone big time . But mucking around with it so far the blades are not yet turning but I’m familiarising myself with the settingS on the thermal camera .....Tonight I will put it in the sky and practice on my dog. I think a 33 kg dog Is perfect practice for looking for feral pigs. for the next week and a half prior to my hunt I will probably seem a bit distant and perhaps distracted at work. I don’t care. Keen to get this gear into the field

[CrackThump]

What happens when you find a pig and reflexively drop the controls to grab your rifle...... does the drone just hover.? Or suddenly go full spazztron.?

And is there an app that syncs the drone to your scope to tell you what adjustments for range, windage, undulating ground etc etc etc to get a kill shot on a preselected target.?

Shenanigans I say.. !!!! Skynet is here..


Actually Im just jealous lol... Id fkn love a drone

[Blr243]

All drones just hover as soon as u stop controlling them Initially I’ll just be locating them , getting within 100 . And then stalking with the wind in my face like the old days. I won’t be useing it on open crop country ...it’s strictly for locating them in thick reeds I have heard of people useing drones to herd mobs towards them , and for scaring them out of crops into the open. I can pre record from my phone the sounds of anything eg gunshots and then use the speaker on the drone to emit the sounds when required. My idea is to make them think it’s a chopper and scare them towards me. The area gets chopper shooters a few tines a year ..... but advanced techniques are a long way off yet. For now I’ll keep it simple

[bladeracer]

I went to work and for the entire morning was oblivious to the fact that it was cup day. Finished my project , got paid, went to my local club for lunch , had a beer, And a little later I walked into an electronics store that sells drones with thermal cameras. So this is where I came undone big time . But mucking around with it so far the blades are not yet turning but I’m familiarising myself with the settingS on the thermal camera .....Tonight I will put it in the sky and practice on my dog. I think a 33 kg dog Is perfect practice for looking for feral pigs. for the next week and a half prior to my hunt I will probably seem a bit distant and perhaps distracted at work. I don’t care. Keen to get this gear into the field

What caliber is the drone, or does it use smart bombs?
With some programming you could mount an AR500 deflector plate on it, then just shoot at the drone and ricochet the bullet onto the target!

[CrackThump]

Bladeracer for the win.. hahaha

[Blr243]

I vote blade to be next president of the USA

[Die Judicii]

FFS,,,,,,,,,,, You could mount an ultra light tranquilizer gun on the drone, and once found,,,,, shoot the oinkers with it.
Then,,,,,,,,,, by the time you "stalk" in they'll be easy targets that will give you plenty of chances to reload,,,,,
And fire again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again,, (get the picture? ?

[Die Judicii]

Does my line of reasoning beat Trumpie ???????

[bladeracer]

Does my line of reasoning beat Trumpie ???????

It does for me

Speaking of tranks, what's involved in getting one in Vic for farm use?

[Blr243]

I think tranks might be a typo error. But like most things , if tranks is fun it won’t be permitted anywhere