UAV Blasted With .20 Gauge Shotgun Shooter Claims Drone 'Went Over My Airspace'
A homeowner in Faquier County in northern Virginia west of Washington, D.C. used a .20 guage shotgun to take down a drone that had strayed over her property a few weeks ago.
The Faquier Times reports that shooter is Jennifer Youngman. One of her neighbors in the rural county near the nation's capital is actor Robert Duvall, who bought the property next to Youngman's several years ago.
Youngman told the paper that she had been sitting on the front porch of her home cleaning a .410 guage and the .20 guage shotguns in mid-June when she noticed a black Range Rover SUV pull up in front of Duvall's property, set up a card table, and launch the aircraft. Youngman said the cows were being disturbed from the aircraft. Then, she said, the aircraft got going a little too fast, the wind caught it, and it "went over my airspace," Youngman said. That's when she brought the .20 guage into play, and the drone did not win that contest.
She said the men yelled at her, but when she threatened to call police, they got back in their vehicle and left.
Youngman said her only regret is that there are still drone parts in her pasture that have caused two flat tires on her tractor. She said the neighbors have laughed about the incident, speculating that the operators were some kind of paparazzi hoping to get a photo of Duvall, whom she describes as "a really nice man."
There was no report of charges being filed against Youngman for shooting at an aircraft.
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I love the "was on the front porch cleaning her shotguns"...
Yep. I give that a 0 on the truth-o-meter. But serious kudos for including the bit about the cattle, harassing livestock in Nebraska would make any shooting of a drone immediately legal (or at least impossible to get a conviction for).
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Border patrol use one here. they fly it past my house at almost 2400 just as i am really getting to sleep. sounds like a lawn mower. think i could get away with bringing it down with a 12 and #4? i could just see Bob Duvall sitting on the porch with that gal! second hand lions!
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She describe Duvall as a really nice man. I don't know anything about him personally but from what I have seen of him in movies somehow that is what I would expect.
I love the "was on the front porch cleaning her shotguns"...
Yep. I give that a 0 on the truth-o-meter. But serious kudos for including the bit about the cattle, harassing livestock in Nebraska would make any shooting of a drone immediately legal (or at least impossible to get a conviction for).
Doesn't matter, she sounds like my type of people.
The thing was so big she's gotten 2 flat tires from the debris field in her pasture......?
I've flattened 2 rear tractor tires on the bone out of a T-bone steak. They are surprisingly easy to penetrate - and expensive, when it happens.
I'll bet that second time you threw that bone in the back of your pickup, rather than back on the ground when you pulled it out!
I've had two flats thus far this year. First was a deer antler. Took that one in to be fixed. ($43 to get it patched) I try and avoid that, as the front tire and wheel weight about 250 lbs.
Second was a wood stob on the same tire. I pulled my pickup up close and plugged that hole and aired it back up. In about 20 min I was back in the field.
