UFOs, Poachers and the Game Warden

[Mach2]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2597315/Beam-Bambi-Video-shows-UFO-descending-deer-rural-Mississippi.html


Since there is no such thing as flying saucers does anybody think game wardens are now using drones at night to stalk deer poachers? This is clearly a chopper drone with alternator driven search lights that probably cost $100K. It is smaller than most pilot carrying helicopters. It has to be a government drone. Since it was hovering over an offseason deer feeding stand it is most likely a game warden in this video operating this drone.

[ebrown]

That's amazing. They've never heard of jacklighting deer? Pretty sure it's illegal in every state to shoot them, but that doesn't mean people don't do it.

That's a 4WD with a light rack. I'm amazed that a real publication would print that.

[Mach2]

If it is a 4WD there should be tire ruts.

[handirifle]

Actually it's been proven that anti hunting groups are enlisting drones to try and "catch" illegal hunting. That's their story. The real truth is they use them to harass hunters and hunting camps. If one harassed me while hunting, I'd shoot it down.

[darkker]

HAHA!! Because If I had the technology to travel to distant galaxies... Using a set of KC's to Spotlight deer, and drawing circles in a field before leaving would DEFINITELY be what I would be doing with my time there....

[DanSavage]

Drone season should be open year round, over your own property, even State lands , we don't want these drones destroying the natural habitat of the "ANIMALS" perhaps even a "CHILD" could be frightened and cause permanent mental problems down the road.

[Echo17]

HAHA!! Because If I had the technology to travel to distant galaxies... Using a set of KC's to Spotlight deer, and drawing circles in a field before leaving would DEFINITELY be what I would be doing with my time there....
Activities that are probably a result of the extraterrestrial version of Keystone Light....who says aliens can't have rednecks?

[yobuck]

Hey listen, it's a boring job for about 10 months a year. Without these type toys it might be hard keeping good people
around for 30 years. In PA we pay people to ride around on 4 wheelers to fine other people for riding around on 4 wheelers.
We also pay them to ride around with tracking devices to find whoe's yard the collard elk are feeding in. Last fall i came upon a DCNR
pickup with the gate down and a set of nice ramps in place. No doubt a dedicated employee out looking for lawbreakers.
Im still kicking my butt for not stealing those ramps.

[darkker]

....who says aliens can't have rednecks?

I am totally going to steal this line:cool:

[DrThunder88]

It's hard to tell how big the thing would be. I see the two lights and think car headlamps, but the photos don't really give a clear sense of scale or perspective. Also, since the trail camera is sensitive to infrared and relies on a battery of LEDs to illuminate the foreground, it's quite possible that the lights themselves are infrared illuminators. There aren't many restrictions on individuals' use of drones, but organizational use is still curtailed. It could have just been a neighbor playing with his new toy. I mean, the "encounter" didn't happen at 0-dark-thirty. It happened when Jeopardy! was on. A natural resources department would be better served by a fixed-wing drone thanks to its longer loiter time, higher altitude, and quieter operation. It's also hard to imagine a low-altitude, secret snooper drone that would need to illuminate its target with white lights or have a powerplant that would sound either like a lawnmower or a jet-powered lawnmower. Thermal imaging, which such a secret snooper drone would undoubtedly have, would not need any secondary illumination, white or infrared.

[snowgetter1]

Aliens, UFOs, and/or drones??? I got these off my trail cam this year too!
http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb465/snowgetter1/imagejpg1_zps91d22903.jpg (http://s1207.photobucket.com/user/snowgetter1/media/imagejpg1_zps91d22903.jpg.html)

[Dennis]

It's also hard to imagine a low-altitude, secret snooper drone that would need to illuminate its target with white lights or have a powerplant that would sound either like a lawnmower or a jet-powered lawnmower.

It's hard for me to believe any state could budget this activity in to their Wildlife Management departments. A drone helo is not a cheap operation, plus flying one of these is not that easy especially at night. You have to have some serious electronics to operate one at night!

However, I know several hobbyist who mounted Go Camera's on their hobby Radio Controlled helicopters and cruise the neighborhood every now and then. Their very noisy and they only fly them during daylight hours. Again, any drone that can fly at night is a very complicated expensive venture that requires highly skilled operators.

Louisiana barely funds our W&F department for it's normal operation. Mississippi is probably in the same financial shape. It's very hard for these departments to fund the basic equipment required, and I mean basic. You almost have to beg for it. Funding a nighttime drone helicopter, again, I just don't see it.

JMO, Dennis

[yobuck]

It's hard for me to believe any state could budget this activity in to their Wildlife Management departments.

JMO, Dennis

Dont ever under estimate the brilliance of government logic. This is an absolutly true story.
Prior to moving from PA i made at least one and sometimes 2 trips per year fishing in quebec.
I always went to Laverndrye Park which is a very large and remote provincial park.
I mostly fished Victoria lake but fished other areas also. There were numerous other lakes connecting
with Victoria which allowed for getting a long way from a road. It was about 25 miles by a very rough
road to the access area we launched from. One day while about 10 miles from our camp on an area called
Eagle bay i noticed a helicopter off in the distance. It was very common to see float planes flying around but
i had never seen a helicopter in there. After awhile it came back and flew right over us. It flew off a short distance
and landed on the water. A guy opened the door and stepped out onto one of the pontoons. He then beckoned for me
to come over there and when i did he stepped right into my boat. He immediatly checked our licenses and camping / fishing permits.
He then proceeded to open every compartment and also checked our small ice chest. We had walleyes hanging in the water from a chain stringer.
We always cull them as for size keeping the largest and then releasing a smaller one. We had one fish more than we should have had when he counted them.
As i recall he fined us fifty bucks each which he insisted be cash. After they took off my companion said wow thats a good way to make money.
I said Pete, thats a Bell jet helicopter, there are two pilots getting paid to fly it. Then theirs the guy who got onto the boat who gets paid also. Not to even
mention how much fuel their burning and the cost for that. The money they collected from us no doubt went into their own pockests. As we get closer and closer
to socialism here as Quebec is, you can expect more of that type thing to take place here also.