Wounded Buck run off by drone.

[Chappy84]

My brother in-law and I took 9 days off this year to make an attempt at getting one of the elusive Wenaha mountain muley's. We hiked over 80 miles living out of our packs, took the time to observe and learn our new hunting area. Awesome scenery, listen to the elk bugling at night and testing our physical abilities were the norm of the week.

With the week winding down and my buck down and hung, we started to work closer to the road (about one mile) Around 4pm we jumped a nice 4x4 and put on a stalk cause they never go too far. Well 30 minutes before dark my Brother in-law spots him bedded down 105 yards down the hill and I step on a twig so the buck jumps up and he takes the shot as best he could...... shot high in the lungs, it walks away looking hurt so we wait (and trees were in the way of a follow up) no big deal right? Wrong! A dang drone flies in sounding like a two stroke dirt bike and zips around and that buck takes off running like the devil was after it. I was ticked to say the least, all that work, sweat and blisters and now this?

What's your take on using drones for hunting/scouting?  If I had a shotgun...............drone down.

[Curly]

I would have tried to shoot it down with my rifle.

[runamuk]

I would have called it in to wdfw/dispatch and reported it.  The way you tell the story that could be construed as wildlife harassment or hunter harassment both of which are offenses.   

[YoterHunter]

I don't beleave in putting lead in the air.  But I would shoot it down.  That sucks

[WAcoyotehunter]

using drones to spot/scout should be illegal.  In many states it already is

[jackelope]

using drones to spot/scout should be illegal.  In many states it already is

[jackelope]

Never found the buck?

[cbond3318]

I would imagine it would not be a far stretch for a Game Officer to make a connection between  this specific scenarios drone use and a harassment of wildlife charge.

[Chappy84]

Never found the buck?

Searched high and low well into the night and the next day. Found a couple spots were it seemed to stagger but that was over a mile away and the tracks up until then looked like he was digging in and covering ground fast then he hit a rocky area and except for some bubbly blood we lost his trail all together and spiraled out from that location for half a mile. meanwhile my brother in law is chanting under his breath, "never again, not taking anymore risky shots." he felt horrible, but I am confident (80%) that we would have gotten one more shot if not for the drone. or he would have died a peaceful death??

[quadrafire]

Did you see who was navigating the drone? What is the range on one of those things anyway?

[CoryTDF]

I feel like I heard this story today. That sucks man. It would have been awesome if you could have shot that thing out of the air. I would have loved to see the guys face who was flying it.

On another note they are talking about having a drone registration. Similar to putting tail numbers on plains. There have been cases of drones being used to make drops into prisons and also spy on people in there houses and yards. The registered drones would be able to be tracked to the owner. I for one hope that this actually happens. I am 10,000,000,000,000 more on board for drone registration than firearm registration.

There is a guy with a drone in my neighborhood. He has flown it over my house a few times. I told my wife if it looks like he is filming our girls I'm going to shoot that sucker out of the air! The thought of perverts using this to film children is awful but it is a very really threat in todays society.   

[CoryTDF]

Did you see who was navigating the drone? What is the range on one of those things anyway?

Can be over a mile.

[cbond3318]

On a side note, I am tired of these remote control toys being churched up by the name "Drone". Its a toy, I lost interest in remote control toys when I was 10.

[toyman2]

I feel like I heard this story today. That sucks man. It would have been awesome if you could have shot that thing out of the air. I would have loved to see the guys face who was flying it.

On another note they are talking about having a drone registration. Similar to putting tail numbers on plains. There have been cases of drones being used to make drops into prisons and also spy on people in there houses and yards. The registered drones would be able to be tracked to the owner. I for one hope that this actually happens. I am 10,000,000,000,000 more on board for drone registration than firearm registration.

There is a guy with a drone in my neighborhood. He has flown it over my house a few times. I told my wife if it looks like he is filming our girls I'm going to shoot that sucker out of the air! The thought of perverts using this to film children is awful but it is a very really threat in todays society.

There was a news story o a guy I think in Texas that was arrested for shooting one down in his back yard.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/man-shoots-neighbors-drone_55bf8127e4b0d4f33a034e31

[Chappy84]

I feel like I heard this story today. That sucks man. It would have been awesome if you could have shot that thing out of the air. I would have loved to see the guys face who was flying it.

On another note they are talking about having a drone registration. Similar to putting tail numbers on plains. There have been cases of drones being used to make drops into prisons and also spy on people in there houses and yards. The registered drones would be able to be tracked to the owner. I for one hope that this actually happens. I am 10,000,000,000,000 more on board for drone registration than firearm registration.

There is a guy with a drone in my neighborhood. He has flown it over my house a few times. I told my wife if it looks like he is filming our girls I'm going to shoot that sucker out of the air! The thought of perverts using this to film children is awful but it is a very really threat in todays society.

This one had four props and a tiny body. How would you be able to read the #'s I guess shoot it down and get them off the thing. I'll start carrying a bird shot load in my sidearm for these critters. I looked for the guy the next day and saw someone go straight towards the location were we shot the buck but he was too far away to catch up to.... probly him.