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 Grey Templar wrote:
How about DU Sabot slugs for shotguns? Take out a charging bear or T-34

Or, dare I say... a T-rex?

I imagine these lovely flyers could pack enough force to knock down a small drone. About half way through the video one knocks over a table.

Again, the cost/benefit ratio makes it not worth while. A lead or jacketed sabot slug will demolish a bear as easily as a DU round would. And the shotgun probably won't give the DU sabot the velocity needed to penetrate even a T-34.

A couple of crates of fireworks mounted on the back of an RC car would be quite entertaining.

 CptJake wrote:
Again, the cost/benefit ratio makes it not worth while. A lead or jacketed sabot slug will demolish a bear as easily as a DU round would. And the shotgun probably won't give the DU sabot the velocity needed to penetrate even a T-34.

Dude, your sarcasim meter is clearly busted

I don't even like hunting but I would love to take down a drone.

Or you could try rigging up a low-budget copy of the US navy's new anti-drone laser... But I prefer the anti-aircraft firework idea, on style grounds

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
This article compares PETA to the World Wildlife Fund, who used 'drones' (radio controlled model aircraft with cameras) to aid authorities in protecting the nigh-extinct rhinos and prevent ivory poaching.

The WWF also hired mercenaries, by proxy, in order to target poachers.

 dogma wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
This article compares PETA to the World Wildlife Fund, who used 'drones' (radio controlled model aircraft with cameras) to aid authorities in protecting the nigh-extinct rhinos and prevent ivory poaching.

The WWF also hired mercenaries, by proxy, in order to target poachers.

Mercs who themselves were probably poachers at one time.

 dogma wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
This article compares PETA to the World Wildlife Fund, who used 'drones' (radio controlled model aircraft with cameras) to aid authorities in protecting the nigh-extinct rhinos and prevent ivory poaching.

The WWF also hired mercenaries, by proxy, in order to target poachers.

I find that oddly amusing in a "The Most Dangerous Game" sort of way...

 xole wrote:
I imagine these lovely flyers could pack enough force to knock down a small drone. About half way through the video one knocks over a table.
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They are however quite expensive ($250-$300)

 dogma wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
This article compares PETA to the World Wildlife Fund, who used 'drones' (radio controlled model aircraft with cameras) to aid authorities in protecting the nigh-extinct rhinos and prevent ivory poaching.

The WWF also hired mercenaries, by proxy, in order to target poachers.

That's interesting and I'd heard things but could you provide a link for me?

Clearly we need to start investing in antiaircraft guns. You can take my Bofors when you pry it from my cold dead hands!

 Frazzled wrote:
Clearly we need to start investing in antiaircraft guns. You can take my Bofors when you pry it from my cold dead hands!

Would this work? The Disintegrator Rubber band gunz?

ew ME LIKEY!

I'm thinking plinking it to death with an air rifle could be a game all the neigbors would love...

 Grey Templar wrote:

 dogma wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:
This article compares PETA to the World Wildlife Fund, who used 'drones' (radio controlled model aircraft with cameras) to aid authorities in protecting the nigh-extinct rhinos and prevent ivory poaching.

The WWF also hired mercenaries, by proxy, in order to target poachers.

Mercs who themselves were probably poachers at one time.

If we are talking the gorilla-hunting-for-magical-severed-hand kind of poachers, I really couldn't care less.

I'd even be curious as to how much it might pay.

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

That's interesting and I'd heard things but could you provide a link for me?

Best I can do absent a subscription fee.

Its a pretty old story.

 Grey Templar wrote:

Mercs who themselves were probably poachers at one time.

Nope, ostensibly they were primarily employees of David Stirling's PMC.

You guys ar thinking to violent, get a Helicopter equip it with spraypaint rig. go around spray painting the drones cameras.
No laws broken

 dogma wrote:

 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

That's interesting and I'd heard things but could you provide a link for me?

Best I can do absent a subscription fee.

Its a pretty old story.

Hmm, interesting.
Good for them. Given that the conservation of species is fighting criminal organisations, corrupt armed forces and well armed gangs, excellent.

Put a bounty on poacher's heads, up the anti, perhaps also take out some hits on the folks funding the poaching for crimes against our children's inherited earth.

 Grey Templar wrote:


Nah, this'll be close to the PETA HQ. We'll shoot them down soon after launch.

I'd rather we use PETOP to infiltrate PETA HQ, with a Barrett .50 cal, and sit on the rooftop and go hunting for deer or whatever other legal wildlife may be nearby

 Grey Templar wrote:
I wonder if you could rig some sort of jammer to make the drone cut out. Or better yet, Hack the drone and take over the controls.

That is possible but illegal, and for good reason. Passive jamming is fine (like deliberately building a cinema where you can't get a signal), but active jamming can be dangerous, like if someone needs to call 911 but can't because you're fething with their phone.

 CptJake wrote:
DU rounds would be REALLY expensive...

Depleted uranium is a waste product. It's what's left once you take the fissile uranium out.

Grey Templar wrote:I wonder if you could rig some sort of jammer to make the drone cut out. Or better yet, Hack the drone and take over the controls.

A jammer would probably be pretty easy. Hacking one would be either trivial or impossible, depending on whether the connection is secured or not. Both are probably pretty illegal, but crash (or disable and toss) the thing in a lake and it would be PETA eating a charge, provided you were nowhere to be found, or at least the device you used wasn't.

Monster Rain wrote:I'm currently envisioning a method, using model rockets and cherry bombs, of miniature anti-drone flak batteries.

Small model rockets, maybe a cluster fired at different trajectories, trailing anchored streamers of fishing line to foul the rotors and drag it down. Effective, silent, and not illegal (rockets of any size carrying ordnance being "wmds" when possessed by civilians).

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:
provided you were nowhere to be found, or at least the device you used wasn't.

Better hope nobody decides to borrow a helicopter and a directional antenna, otherwise the FCC is going to have something to say about your illegal radio jammer.

Monster Rain wrote:Small model rockets, maybe a cluster fired at different trajectories, trailing anchored streamers of fishing line to foul the rotors and drag it down. Effective, silent, and not illegal (rockets of any size carrying ordnance being "wmds" when possessed by civilians).

Since when is deliberate property damage not illegal? Am I allowed to use a hammer to smash the windows in your car because I don't like your political bumper sticker? After all, I'm not using any kind of illegal weapon to do it.

 Dark Apostle 666 wrote:
Or you could try rigging up a low-budget copy of the US navy's new anti-drone laser... But I prefer the anti-aircraft firework idea, on style grounds

for the laser idea...... laser pointers+duct tape + generator = low tech icarus lascannon?

Listen guys, These things will dominate hunter for a bit, maybe force them to buy a special gun that is only useful for this. But once more and more hunters get better and update equipment these drones will have less of a presence with maybe one being worrisome, with its ability to shoot fire everwhere.

 Peregrine wrote:

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:
provided you were nowhere to be found, or at least the device you used wasn't.

Better hope nobody decides to borrow a helicopter and a directional antenna, otherwise the FCC is going to have something to say about your illegal radio jammer.

Monster Rain wrote:Small model rockets, maybe a cluster fired at different trajectories, trailing anchored streamers of fishing line to foul the rotors and drag it down. Effective, silent, and not illegal (rockets of any size carrying ordnance being "wmds" when possessed by civilians).

Since when is deliberate property damage not illegal? Am I allowed to use a hammer to smash the windows in your car because I don't like your political bumper sticker? After all, I'm not using any kind of illegal weapon to do it.

I'm replying simply to say that I see what you're trying to do, but am not going to participate.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Listen guys, These things will dominate hunter for a bit, maybe force them to buy a special gun that is only useful for this. But once more and more hunters get better and update equipment these drones will have less of a presence with maybe one being worrisome, with its ability to shoot fire everwhere.

Exactly and even then we can just get some of the fresh fish to do it

 Peregrine wrote:

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:
provided you were nowhere to be found, or at least the device you used wasn't.

Better hope nobody decides to borrow a helicopter and a directional antenna, otherwise the FCC is going to have something to say about your illegal radio jammer.

Because a one-off incident of a terrorist organization's borderline illegal UAV allegedly being jammed and made to crash will totally result in any investigation, let alone one with both a helicopter and a time machine, since the only way to do what you're suggesting would be to be running the scanner at the location while it was going on.

Monster Rain wrote:Small model rockets, maybe a cluster fired at different trajectories, trailing anchored streamers of fishing line to foul the rotors and drag it down. Effective, silent, and not illegal (rockets of any size carrying ordnance being "wmds" when possessed by civilians).

Since when is deliberate property damage not illegal? Am I allowed to use a hammer to smash the windows in your car because I don't like your political bumper sticker? After all, I'm not using any kind of illegal weapon to do it.

Quotefail, and disabling an illegally operated UAV, piloted in a manner "that made you fear for your safety" with a legal device is totally equivalent to assault with a claw hammer, you're right.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Listen guys, These things will dominate hunter for a bit, maybe force them to buy a special gun that is only useful for this. But once more and more hunters get better and update equipment these drones will have less of a presence with maybe one being worrisome, with its ability to shoot fire everwhere.

Wut.

On another note, I doubt they actually intend to do this. It's too impractical.