Drone Skeet

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JerryBaumchen

Hi Jeanna,

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Personally I think the guy has a valid point.

Update: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not-my-backyard-man-arrested-after-shooting-drone-down-n402271

Jerry Baumchen

Bean bag rounds would have been better, or net, or paint ball.

But I'm satisfied with the outcome.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[ryoder 1,381]

Another option for dealing with drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-qLYBiMNGA

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[kallend 1,621]

turtlespeed

***Most multirotors are not powerful enough to haul cameras. Is your problem with the cameras or simply being in the airspace above someone else's property line? Should kites be banned then too? Some of the ones I have make more noise than my quads when diving and turning them.

Also I hate the word "drone". The predator the military uses is a drone, a tri-quad-or hex copter that I build for $150 from hobby king is just a r/c multirotor.

Most?

Hell, "most" have built in cameras - even this parrot drone, at $100 U.S. Has one installed by the factory.

Parrot mini drone

If you want a camera with decent resolution then you are talking about a fairly expensive piece of hardware to haul it aloft.

My hexacopter (DJI550) carries a GoPro, and after everything is accounted for we're talking more than $1000.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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kallend

******Most multirotors are not powerful enough to haul cameras. Is your problem with the cameras or simply being in the airspace above someone else's property line? Should kites be banned then too? Some of the ones I have make more noise than my quads when diving and turning them.

Also I hate the word "drone". The predator the military uses is a drone, a tri-quad-or hex copter that I build for $150 from hobby king is just a r/c multirotor.

Most?

Hell, "most" have built in cameras - even this parrot drone, at $100 U.S. Has one installed by the factory.

Parrot mini drone

If you want a camera with decent resolution then you are talking about a fairly expensive piece of hardware to haul it aloft.

My hexacopter (DJI550) carries a GoPro, and after everything is accounted for we're talking more than $1000.

I don't disagree. My argument is that there are far less 1 and 2000 dollar drones than there are 1 and 200 dollar drones being bought.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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So if he did disable the drone with a paint ball gun or net, and it landed on his property, could he then legally keep it?

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

[ryoder 1,381]

The wildlife are taking matters into their own hands...errr...talons: http://digg.com/video/eagle-destroys-drone

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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ryoder

The wildlife are taking matters into their own hands...errr...talons: http://digg.com/video/eagle-destroys-drone

That's awesome!

And that gives me an idea.... Get a pet raptor, train it to take drones out if they hover over your property instead of shooting it down.

There will be no addressing the customers as "Bitches", "Morons" or "Retards"!

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champu

a) If four people drove to his house "minutes later" and yelled at him for shooting their drone that kinda outs them as having used the drone to snoop on the guy (even if it wasn't personal, i.e. they just wanted to spy on whomever.) I wonder if the camera was streaming and recording locally and if the memory card survived.

b) If you knew someone just shot your drone down, why in the god damn world would you go to that person's property immediately afterwords and confront them?

c) The guy has a point about #8 shot. Frankly at "suburb distances" unless you shoot directly at someone or directly through a window or something you're not going to hurt bystanders. I live in a city though, so I definitely wouldn't try this.

d) I'm curious to know, of anyone who objects, what their feeling would be if the guy used something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1ZRupUfPo (a net gun.)

The memory card did survive, and the police used it in part, as cause for arrest.
The owner of the drone was able to show flight tracking information demonstrating that at no point was the UAS below 150', and at no point did it "hover" over the Kentucky man's home.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/29670583/update-drone-owner-disputes-suspects-claims-produces-video-claiming-to-show-flight-path

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Driver1

***The wildlife are taking matters into their own hands...errr...talons: http://digg.com/video/eagle-destroys-drone

That's awesome!

And that gives me an idea.... Get a pet raptor, train it to take drones out if they hover over your property instead of shooting it down.

Problem is, I don't see how an eagle could make contact w/o being injured by those spinning blades.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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ryoder

******The wildlife are taking matters into their own hands...errr...talons: http://digg.com/video/eagle-destroys-drone

That's awesome!

And that gives me an idea.... Get a pet raptor, train it to take drones out if they hover over your property instead of shooting it down.

Problem is, I don't see how an eagle could make contact w/o being injured by those spinning blades.

Wonder how strong the blades are... depends on the size I guess. If the drone's big enough, it could just grab at the middle, or attack it from below?

There will be no addressing the customers as "Bitches", "Morons" or "Retards"!

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DSE

***a) If four people drove to his house "minutes later" and yelled at him for shooting their drone that kinda outs them as having used the drone to snoop on the guy (even if it wasn't personal, i.e. they just wanted to spy on whomever.) I wonder if the camera was streaming and recording locally and if the memory card survived.

b) If you knew someone just shot your drone down, why in the god damn world would you go to that person's property immediately afterwords and confront them?

c) The guy has a point about #8 shot. Frankly at "suburb distances" unless you shoot directly at someone or directly through a window or something you're not going to hurt bystanders. I live in a city though, so I definitely wouldn't try this.

d) I'm curious to know, of anyone who objects, what their feeling would be if the guy used something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE1ZRupUfPo (a net gun.)

The memory card did survive, and the police used it in part, as cause for arrest.
The owner of the drone was able to show flight tracking information demonstrating that at no point was the UAS below 150', and at no point did it "hover" over the Kentucky man's home.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/29670583/update-drone-owner-disputes-suspects-claims-produces-video-claiming-to-show-flight-path

150' is a pretty long shot for #8 bird shot.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun