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Blasting a Drone

Ya, we'll say your in your pool, hot tub, and one invades your privacy. Flying low to "get a look". You'll never know who it is. You can call the police, but they can't chase it. Chances of finding out who it is will be difficult at best. I live in the sticks, so the operator could be a mile away. I wouldn't hesitate to unleash a 3 1/2 magnum if one was invading my privacy. If it was flying high and passing over the house I wouldn't have a problem with that.
 
I thought about this. I would use my bow and shoot a flu flu arriw at it. They are made for bird hunting. The shoot like and other arrow. Has a wire loop in front where the point normally goes. But they have large fletching and fall soft to the ground. Then let the guy come get the drone at my house.

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Well....

Time to invest in some serious jammers....:lecturef_smilie: or a trained hawk.....It;s not ilegal to hunt them...
 
We use them for work all the time and if someone took one of them down, I would for sure follow up with the authorities....no joke.

The funny thing is that it's all the complainers about drones to blame....people complained and wanted to make it mandatory to register with the FAA. So now they are registered aircraft....which makes it illegal to take down an aircraft....ha-ha.

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There was a situation where a house had a swimming pool. A teenage daughter liked to swim in the pool. A drone with a camera started hovering above her when she was in her bathing suit at the pool. She told Dad and he shot it down.

The drone owner is now suing Dad. (How did the owner know where the drone went down? :dontknow:)

Drones in the middle of nowhere shouldn't be used for skeet practice, but what would you do if someone was taking pictures of your daughter???
 
There was a situation where a house had a swimming pool. A teenage daughter liked to swim in the pool. A drone with a camera started hovering above her when she was in her bathing suit at the pool. She told Dad and he shot it down.

The drone owner is now suing Dad. (How did the owner know where the drone went down? :dontknow:)

Drones in the middle of nowhere shouldn't be used for skeet practice, but what would you do if someone was taking pictures of your daughter???
The general technology and GPS tracking on some of the better equipment is very good. Easy to track, record, and look back at previous flight plans. Add to that the camera technology. The better ones are not toys, many are more advanced than the cars we drive.

As for the peeping tom drone pilot. Like anything else, your always going to have idiots. If it were at my house/pool I'd simply call the police. If I felt the need to take a peeping tom drone down you'd have to have a good explanation on why it came down ON ITS OWN. Then call and file a complaint and report the owner. [emoji106] [emoji106]

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The general technology and GPS tracking on some of the better equipment is very good. Easy to track, record, and look back at previous flight plans. Add to that the camera technology. The better ones are not toys, many are more advanced than the cars we drive.

As for the peeping tom drone pilot. Like anything else, your always going to have idiots. If it were at my house/pool I'd simply call the police. If I felt the need to take a peeping tom drone down you'd have to have a good explanation on why it came down ON ITS OWN. Then call and file a complaint and report the owner. [emoji106] [emoji106]

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Just asking cause I know little about these things, what is calling the cops gonna do? Do you think the guy is gonna turn himself in? Cop can't follow it.
 
What kind of ballistics can be run on shotgun pellets?:D Perhaps you could use your unregistered Assault Rifle to bring it down. Or put up a "No Drone Area" sign.:roflblack: We will probably see an argument in court about who owns the air space above your property, and I would almost bet it's not you, or if it is you, how high does it go. Another thought is publish in the newspapers a no fly zone below a certain altitude, the government has no fly zones around the White House and the Capital. All I know is that it is going to get messy. :popcorn: Some celebrity will take some photo taker to court over using a drone to invade their privacy.
 
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If you bring one down: keep your mouth shut, and get the heck rid of the evidence... nojoke
Actually, you'd be better off calling it in if you do take one down. Just say it crashed in your yard. But better hope there are no pics or video of you actually doing it.

Calling in a complaint just puts on record the disturbance and the location. If enough people complain in a similar location, its pretty easy to figure out who the local is that's got a registered drone.

Its a touchy issue for sure.

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yeah... shoot down a drone... then you will be bubba's girlfriend .... :sour:

osm

:D Won't happen...
I know a fella who put an arrow into a Helicopter flying out of Plattsburgh...
(I came down low over his deerstand...)
They made him pay for the damages, and that was the extent of the punishment.
(over $25,000!)
 
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