Drone Recovery for Deer

Sight in your weapon and practice ??

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Watching the YouTube videos on this, unbelievable tech, thermal and actually seeing where deer is shot, is this good thing or bad thing for the sport? Different than using dogs to recover deer ? Is it legal in Louisiana? Ethical in yalls opinion?

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Ought to be encouraged. Wanton waste is against the law in most states...if you can find a dead animal you've killed you should.

I used a drone this year to scout ducks and geese on a large COE impoundment. It worked well...I could idol along a main creek channel and fly that thing back in feeder creeks and ditches and found birds I would have never found. Hard to tell the difference between coots and ringnecks that way but in our area where there are coots there are usually ringnecks and redheads.

I know a couple of folks who are using drones to look for bait offshore. I think that is going to be a huge thing in the not too distant future. A tuna tower and even radar is game changing but you can fly a drone off a small center console and find shite you couldn't see in a lifetime of working with out it. Grasslines, logs, bait pods, feeding fish....it is going to be HUGE.

Used one for recovery of my 5 year olds first deer this year. It was really nice to not have to plow through the woods following a minimal blood trail. Found the deer, walked straight in to grab it and straight back out. Incredible tech as long as its being used ethically

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is this good thing or bad thing for the sport?

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If it helps you recover a deer and you don't let the meat spoil because its "lost", how could it be a bad thing?

I shot a buck on Tensas last year I couldn’t find. Put an arrow in him (shot was a little high but hit him good), waited in the tree until dark, got down and picked up his blood trail. The problem was he ran through a slough with knee deep water and I lost the blood. Called a friend that knew a guy with a dog, and ole baw drove from Sicily Island with his hound all the way out to Little Fork, damn near in Tendal. By the time I put the dog on the original blood I found, it was pushing 11 pm. We trailed until 1 but couldn’t find him. It hurt my soul.

I went back to hunt the same tree two days later (right around the hard freeze of Christmas in 22) and I saw a ton of buzzards not far from where our trail went cold, circling overhead. The buck obviously finally laid down and died.

Had I known anyone with that drone technology, I would have still been able to go back even 24-36 hours later and get that buck, as cold as it was.

I’m in favor of this technology being used ethically.