I just bought a drone. Seriously.

Well I'm embarrassed to say that all the drone jokes got me interested. Geeked out on my way home from work and blew some Christmas money on an AR Parrot Drone.

Curious to try it out to do some aerial scouting... Stay tuned.

But it doesn't look like a crow !

Yeh. Watch out Cos... I'm coming for you.

Pour Cos. He will forever be known as the "Drone Guy"

Interested to see how this turns out.

Can't wait to shoot one of them things out of the air, j/k of course(maybe not), I'm sure they are fun to fly.

The drone guy thinks they make for good conversation and actually are a lot of fun. Best scouting tool around.

Drone jokes were all in good fun. Sorry they have been at your expense. No hard feelings?

Would be interesting to say the least. What is the range on this model you bought Redsnake??

Thanks Redsnake, if you don't have pretty thick skin you have no business on this forum.

Range is crap. Only like 50-60 yds. I hear you can boost the wifi and get it to go over 300 yds. It's pretty cool though that you control it from the screen on your phone as it streams video -- you can see from the drones point of view as you fly it.

Well i was going to say if it was 300 to 500 yards you might could spot Plan A next year while your sitting in your stand. Put an ol stalk on him

Yessir. I'm ready to take it to the next level.

At the very least, it'd be nice if I could at least send it down the street to 7-11 to fetch me a fresh can of snuff!

If it can do that I am buying one. Never realize i am out of snuff till its late at night

Dang. If it was farther I would be interested. Would be a lot of fun either way

Range depends on how much money you want to spend on one, my neighbor will be through with another one in a few days that if does what it supposed to will go more than a mile.

Please report. I am wanting one.

Cos, so was it your neighbor that sent the drone to your feeder that looked like a bird? If so, he has skills!

His neighbor has ninja skills

awesome.

If it works like I hope it does, maybe we can use it to find Big.

Here's the one my brothers looking at now but he's still undecided.

http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-2-vision/

Is this thing for real?

you know it! hope....

300 meters on that one...that isn't too bad

now just need thermal camera to go with it.

ouch, 1200.00 bucks. knew it wasn't going to be cheap but that is pricey.

Yep...think I can walk 300 yards for $1200

lol yep

That's why I got this starter drone. Only a couple hundred bucks.

drone.

My brother is a beach guy so he wants to video and take pics of vacations, and I'm sure some hunting stuff too. I'm curious how tolerant critters would be of it.

What about battery life per flight?

That's what I want to try and fig out -- plan on taking to my property to see how close I can fly it to a deer before they spook. Thought about painting it like a mallard and taking it duck hunting tomorrow to have it hover over my spread too but I'm not very good at flying it yet and id hate to crash it into the water.

It's not very loud at all. I'll post up some videos of it soon.

30 min.

So what happens if it flies past it's control range? Auto retreat or Crash?

Man I hope flys better than helicopter with camera I bought at Dallas gun show 80 bucks down the drain let us know May have to get that one

Ya'll didn't buy the one from PETA?

heard that drone!.. wink

is it loud?

Does this mean you can declare war on the PETA drone?

one of the sales engineers we work with is bringing his out to our office today to show us how it works. he got two at Christmas. i think he said he added an additional camera to one of them. really interested to give it a try.

The technology exists to use 3G or 4G wireless and GPS tracking to control a conventional remote control model airplane that could literally travel for miles and easily return to where it took off. You could just add a small video recording unit and capture recorded video, or add something that streams video if the plane is large enough to carry it.

Link

yea this is what i was interested in. the one i saw for 1200.00 - i think it had a gps module you can buy.

I would not be surprised if the model airplane flyers are not already building their own "home brew" drones by assembling the necessary components themselves, just as hunters once did with the first home brew game cameras.

Watch the second half of this video for some pretty cool stuff.

have you seen the group in Louisiana that is hunting hogs with NV on drones? ha, the dehogaflier.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/hunting-feral-pigs-at-night-with-drones/

Thats a pretty neat vid but dang expensive toy to use.

I can already see some Texas hunter getting totally ticked off when his neighbor's drone keeps buzzing his feeder.

It's obvious there are commercially available drones today that you can get for less than the price of a UTV, that can be controlled to fly anywhere a tank of gas or battery charge will take them.

the ones I have seen are pretty noisy ... one of the guys that works for me brought his in and flew it around but I think it would spook wild game from quite a distance ... maybe they have improved.

Redsnake.... can your drone do this?

http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/u......#Post4944026

Mine can carry a pony keg

Question? Would it be legal to fly a drone over your neighbors hunting area filming things. I'm guessing it would be. If so, would neighbor get in trouble for shooting it down?

Actually a good question. Airspace and how it applies to land ownership.

I would shoot it down if I had my shotgun with me

Sounds vague but illegal. Seems as though you can't shoot it down though. Except somewhere in Colorado...

http://aviation.uslegal.com/ownership-of...ce-proprietors/

Harassing hunters is illegal. I'd consider a neighbor's drone buzzing my feeder as harassment.

Yea I agree, his question specifically - illegal. I was wondering in general.

I have a dji phantom. Not the vision the original. I have a gopro strapped to it and get about 12 minutes of flight time per battery. Im still stretching my legs out with it but it can go pretty far. Far enough to easily lose it in the clouds or horizon. Also you cant really hear it when its about 20 feet up. If you lose power or cant see it anymore you can gurn off the remote and it will fly itself back and land within 6 feet of where it took off. My videos arent worrh sharing, but there are some really cool videos on youtube.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cfoLYTKObiU


http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7LxwYzaUFKk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7LxwYzaUFKk

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwpnrKP3Kg

I really hope we don't have to deal with these thing all over in the future. I know there is research testing in a few states Texas included for different uses. It would be really tough to get away from it all with drones hovering around out in the middle of nowhere recording everything.

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