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Posted on 11/19/2012 1:43:27 PM PST by Larry R. Johnson
Police are investigating an incident at a Berks County hunting club in which someone on the hunting grounds allegedly targeted a mechanical flying object rather than a living and breathing one.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
On the other hand, if this incident actually had occurred in Texas, you'd be crowing like a rooster. About Texas, of course.
Q: How can you tell someone is from Texas?
A: He'll tell you.
There are other options...
I can’t wait till one of these individually owned spy drones crashes into a police chopper and the whole thing smokes.
Then there is gonna be hell to pay.
I believe the demarcation is 400 ft
I just love the sound of that, think I'll play it again:
(He)shot it down
Methinks a better name would be "Skeet."
Too bad they didn’t get the drone oerator along with the drone!!
Birds and animals only exist to provide food for humans!
Too bad they didn’t get the drone oerator along with the drone!!
Birds and animals only exist to provide food for humans!
Iron Dome or a Patriot Missile?
Thanks. I got a great and much needed laugh out of this. If I could write with a lisp and a limp wrist the mockery my son and I did of this was a riot.
They sent angel to rescue the pigeons FOUR times? And they were surprised it was shot down?
Alright boys! Here it comes again! Ready, aim, FIRE! And angel limps back in manual retreat.
"Minimum safe altitude" (assuming no taller obstructions are nearby), or something like that. It seems that applies to "navigable airspace", referring primarily to manned aircraft but now extending to the larger UAVs.
Smaller uncertified R/C aircraft may be flown below 400', but there you start getting into the issues of warrants and illegal recordings - and property rights (some of which *do* extend up to the aforementioned minimum safe altitude).
Seems like the R/C forums would be the place to look for the details on this stuff.
Won’t be long before someone markets “The Droneshot” of a calculated charge and load best for being a hand held anti=air round.
I would think a 19 gauge load with some of those small spools you use on a sewing machine wound up with Spiderwire or Spectra, they unreel and in theory would entangle the prop, OR...actual flak loads of a timed fuze that would send an airburst of .177 bbs out in a flak cloud.
Now a smart person with some fabrication skills can make air cannons that would launch netting, or revert to the old way of having barrage ballons tethered at different heights, paint them a sy blue haze and maybe the camera resolution won’t see them. Better yet they have a contact fuze on them as well with a hydrogen envelop.
Investigating?? Huh?? Why didn’t the police ARREST these activists for FELONY STALKING?? FELONY TRESPASSING?? They belong in PRISON for this. What the hell is the matter with Philadelphia??
if it was over private property why were they allowed to retrieve it?
it would seem the proper course of action would be to keep shoot it it.
...and a nice trophy to hang in the clubhouse...
I’ve been reading this story for a few days, and I’ve come to a conclusion: The animal rights whackos are lying when they say they were just flying the model plane to “film the activities at the pigeon shoot.” If that were the case, the plane would have been very, very hard to hit at that high an altitude (just a couple of hundred feet up makes it a pretty small target to hit).
No, I think they were using the plane to spook the prey, and it was hit because it was swooping dangerously close to the hunters. I am proud of them, and I hope they shoot down any more model planes that the whackos use to interfere with their activities.
This is what I would use to hunt those drones.http://youtu.be/bZCH1492CzA
So you think that each year fish & wildlife agencies have raised hundreds of thousands of pheasants, which they release to be shot at hunting season-where? In airplane hangers? Most of these birds are imported from farms in China. Further, many of the species are ground dwellers. They can fly but they normally hide and feed in brush and leaves on the ground. I believe there would be few or no pheasants in the USA if they were not released from cages each year.
It’s a nice sport. As for the pigeon shoots, that’s also a very difficult and competitive sport.
We’re talking about shooting birds.
I believe that you are mistaken. Ocean transport is very cheap for manufactured goods in shipping containers. It would not be cheap for live birds.
I believe that most pheasants are raised by state game and fish authorities in the state that they are released in. I toured such a facility in Wisconsin, though it was 30 years ago.
Thank you for your response here. I was going to respond to the obvious ignorance of these kinds of hunts, but decided I did not have the energy.
I was invited to a private hunt club to participate in a pheasent hunt a few years ago and it was probably the most enjoyable hunting experience of my life.
I was able to watch a fully trained “veteran” lab work with a puppy tagging along to learn and it was a beautiful thing. In addition, you are right, it is not like “shooting fish in a barrell” at all. I believe that the club released 20 birds on our “parcel” and the three of us bagged 10-12 of them.
I would recommend that anyone who gets a chance to participate in this style of hunt, definitely accept that invitation!
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