re: Drone Recovery for Deer

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Deer recovery I’m still on the fence with it.

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They shouldnt be allowed in the woods at all for any purpose.


Eta: Amy purpose that pertains to hunting. They are great tools for industrial uses

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The wasting hours and days is what they call hunting.

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This.

I guess it comes down to "why do you hunt". Do you hunt because you want to brag to your buddies or on social media? Or do you hunt to be in nature and overcome an animal that was made to avoid you?

Losing the art of trailing a deer seems to be a big deal. While I think using a drone when all other methods have failed is good. If anyone had just take a bad shot and someone can send up a drone to find any wounded deer then what is the impetus for someone to get better? Nothing will make go back to the range to practice or make you take your time to make a better shot than losing a deer. It stays with you. It's an important part of learning to hunt. I just fear that we are losing what makes the sport special.

Old man rant I guess.

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Old man rant I guess.

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I'm not old yet, but I do my fair share of hunting both in Louisiana and out west.

For me, these days, the challenge is just being able to go. I've got more incentive than anybody else to use every advantage available to find success when I do get a chance to go. I hunted and fished more in a year when I was 5 years old than I do now.

I wish everything electronic except potentially life saving devices disappeared from hunting. Cameras, drones, GPS maps, rangefinders, illuminated optics, electric bikes / carts, all of it. Everything except a basic inreach in the woods. Digital scouting from home, fine. Use a map and a compass to get there in the woods. Don't trust yourself to do that? Good, don't go and stay closer to the road. Give the animals some sanctity and peace. I wish it'd all go away. Frankly, I don't really care if a deer gets wounded and dies without being recovered if that means less people in the woods, less pressure, less assurance of a buck's presence, and the list goes on and on and on. How many are hit by cars every year that go to waste? I don't care that it has a big rack or is a genetic gold mine or whatever else. If it goes to waste so be it, you shouldn't have shot at it if you weren't assured of killing it. Call a dog. Use non-electronic means of recovering it.

Yes, this is a fine example of I wish everybody would just enjoy the outdoors the way that I want them to enjoy it rather than how they want to enjoy it. Don't really care. Go out west on a public land elk hunt and force yourself to completely unplug for 2 weeks and discover what hunting really can be, and coming back to our southeastern deer leases with cell cameras and GPS and nowhere for a deer to hide and it just sucks by comparison. Everybody thinking they own whatever buck because they've been feeding it. Everybody trying so damned hard to kill "their" target buck. Everybody knowing damn near every deer that crosses the property. Can't take a piss in the woods without someone getting a picture of my bird. Now we've got legitimate 1st world warfighting equipment available to us. The deer is still just a deer.

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If you gave this technology to hunters/trappers at the dawn of our country, would they use it? Yep.

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And EVERYTHING of any tiny bit of value would be extinct right now.

We aren't doing this to survive. We're doing it for fun. All this crap makes it not fun. Those who think it is fun are doing it wrong.

Just curious as I don't totally disagree with your thoughts for the most part, but what kind of hunting out west do you do without a range finder? Are you using straight iron sights with a muzzleloader or something?

“ I don’t care how others enjoy themselves as long as they are buying licenses and paying fees. I want more participation, not less.”

So you good with your neighbors flying drones over your place, then baiting the property line to try to pull that buck to them?

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So you good with your neighbors flying drones over your place, then baiting the property line to try to pull that buck to them?

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I don’t care at all. That deer could chase a doe a mile. Or the neighbors deer could end up on my property


As long as legal, I don’t care how others hunt.

We were w another adult the other day and my son was showing deer killed he sees on social media. Every deer was nice, Every deer shown was greeted w some petty bullshite from the man. High fence, 10000 dollars will buy you that. Well that club is a milllion to join…,on and on. In truck ride home my son asked about what I thought..I just told him they were nice deer anyone would love to kill. Period.

These comments reek of jealousy and inferiority. It’s a deer. If someone goes to a fancy steak house and enjoys the best steak of their life. Good for them. I still love my backyard sirloin.

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I know a couple of folks who are using drones to look for bait offshore

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One of our customers uses helicopters to find tuna schools offshore. Then they send in the speed boats to net them. They process 2 million cans worth of tuna a day.

No idea where you hunt but I’d say Hunter numbers are increasing. Especially in the south.

I’ve always heard/read about declining numbers but I’ve never seen this happen. Statistics can be skewed into whatever way you want numbers to be.

Also just because you read that license sales are declining doesn’t mean that people aren’t hunting without a license.

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I dont care how others harvest game as long as legal and ethical to the animal in that it is harvested in a way that minimizes suffering. I view it the same as any other sport.

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We're so far apart on this that I don't think we could even discuss it. I don't care about any other sport. I do care about hunting and fishing.

But as I said earlier, there are two types of opinions in this world - My opinion and wrong opinions. Electronics with very limited exceptions need to be limited to home or base camp and otherwise should be removed from hunting / scouting entirely.