animal rights activist send in a drone, "someone" shoots it down

[41magsnub]

The problem with this kind of deal is these guys' wet dream is for a hunter to react to them.  They are like the small kid on the playground who would taunt the bigger kids until one smacked him, then run and tell the teachers aide the big kids were picking on him.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

yup

[Larry Ashcraft]

It was a live pigeon shoot, which is a competition, not a hunt.

Basically a trap shoot using live, trapped pigeons instead of clay birds.

FWIW, I have nothing aganst live pigeon shoots, but a lot of people, including hunters, do.

[Pharmacology]

The next time those wackos use the ultralight,  the hunters should release a few thousand pigeons right into the pilots path.

[gunsmith]

They're talking about this on calguns too.
SHARK is a guy named Hindi & he's the Westboro equivalent for animal rights folk.
They have a liveleak vid and SHARK obviosly splices in the sound of some high caliber rifle and you never even see any evidence of any damage.

As far as legality of drones, if it is indeed legal this sets up a whole new slew of peeping tom
problems - your neighborhood creep can send a drone to record his victims and not violate the law?
I guess if its your kids then its Child porn, but if you tape adults?

[Nick1911]

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights

In the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the sole authority to control all airspace, exclusively determining the rules and requirements for its use. Typically, in the "Uncontrolled" category of airspace, any pilot can fly any aircraft as low as he/she wants, subject to the requirement of maintaining a 500-foot (150 m) distance from people and man-made structures except for purposes of takeoff and landing, and not causing any hazard. Therefore, it appears to trump any individually claimed air rights, near airports especially.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

but then there is this
http://mobile.businessweek.com/magazine/commercial-drones-a-dogfight-at-the-faa-02092012.html

[Northwoods]

You know, if I was part of that club, and still in R/C airplanes, I'd me mighty tempted to build a scale replica of a Japanese fighter/bomber from WWII.  And "accidently" have a mid-air collision with the drone while it was over the club property.  Any explosions upon impact would be purely coincidental.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

i'm japanese /irish   i'd be tempted to home in on controller

[gunsmith]

You know, if I was part of that club, and still in R/C airplanes, I'd me mighty tempted to build a scale replica of a Japanese fighter/bomber from WWII.  And "accidently" have a mid-air collision with the drone while it was over the club property.  Any explosions upon impact would be purely coincidental.

Tora,Tora, Tora!!!