The town of Deer Trail, Colorado, has already received requests (and checks) for 983 drone-hunting licenses — despite not yet having passed a license ordinance.
Actually, they’ve gotten more than 983. That’s just where the town clerk stopped counting a couple weeks back.
The burning question, of course, is how many Terror Watch Points a drone license gets you.
And speaking of drones, how about the apologists and character assassins starting to ooze up in comments?
Which type is more dangerous again? (It may matter little, since they both take their orders from the same source.)
(to be clear: “in comments” at the linked article.) 🙂
Does this mean they have a license to shoot skyward within city limits? Deer Trail is probably going to look like a Pakistani gun bazaar on holidays, birthdays, weddings, Fridays…
What caliber is best for drone?
Good question, Erin.
Y’know, I’m tempted to say that .50 BMG would be a fine caliber for drone huntin’. But knowing gunfolk, the first time anyone mentions that “best” caliber or “best” gun, every other gun owner in the entire universe will feel compelled to weigh in with why something else is the best and how anybody who disagrees is a complete moron who knows nothing about firearms.
Heck, a discussion like that might even earn us an appearance by gunkid. 😉 (I hear he’s been out of prison for a while now: http://xavierthoughts.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye-gunkid.html)
There was a fella a year or so back who had a functioning Bofors L/70 for sale…think it came with 500-ish fuzed rounds. FPSRussia got a chance to play with it in one of his vids. The gun itself was listed as both an MG and a Destructive Device (so $400 NFA taxes there) plus $200 tax apiece for each round (since each 40mm projo is a DD by itself), but it was out there. Might still be.
Erin Palette Says:
What caliber is best for drone?
Probably depends on your location. In our area the drones would probably be the little hummingbird drones for which a little 20 ga shotgun should do the trick. 😉
While .50 cal is probably fine for drone hunting, it won’t range the high fliers. I’d suggest something retro like a 20mm or 40mm Bofors AA gun, or maybe a German 88mm AAA. Due to federal regulations regarding migratory bird hunting, one is probably restricted to steel shot only.
Ok, I’ll be the one to passive-aggressively suggest jamming. It’s quiet, and the reverse commands could become rather humorous.
LOL
License? We don’t need no steenkin’ license!
What would Harry Bowman do? (IIRC, he used a Solothurn, but that was against helicopters.)
Bofors is nice. Particularly if you have an M42 under it. I like the mobility.
Heaven knows what Gunkid would recommend. Maybe handloading special AA rounds for the .577 Tyrannosaur.
I’d nominate a black powder cannon or mortar (perfectly legal) with chain shot, or a 12 ga with bolo rounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-shot
The whole point of the varmint classification is that you don’t need any license to shoot ’em. So that article confuses me.
I think those little drones should be shot with a .17HMR semi-auto, or a shotgun. You don’t want to inadvertently kill your neighbor… Maybe .223 would be OK with the lightest possible bullets (35 gr?)
You don’t need big guns to shoot drones. They are mostly light weight items after all.
Am I the only one to chuckle about the irony of people who want to the ask a local government for permission to do something, when in fact that government hasn’t even imposed licensure on that activity yet? 😀
Yep I caught that as well Kyle.
Remember though that it has been clearly established that repetition and repetition with reward are both very effective in mental training circles.
Dogs, horses, children et cetera.
Those Prussian school indoctrination systems have done a fairly good job of washing all of those so called Free Thinkers right into thinking via the Statist System don’t you think?
As to choice of ammo? I kind of like river pebbles or small gravel in thin cloth or paper ‘satchels’ fired from a 12 ga. smooth bore. [or 10 ga for the higher flying types]
Preserving the metallic type for other “game” while staying with the “natural” lifestyle don’t you know?
Can you get close enough? River pebbles and sling shots.
If you can get that close … remove the operator. [The Solzhenitsyn Solution]
“What caliber is best for drone?”
12 gauge, of course.
http://www.luckygunner.com/12ga-3-uranium-drone-load-tacnition-5-rounds