Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Pa. man in trouble using drone for deer recovery

Bwhahahaha !

Really ?



That would make 1 of us !

Recovery? How does one know it's dead if he can't find it.

Being a true woodman is a lost art. Now days it’s take the easy way out.

I was hunting with a Mauser in .30-06, shooting Remington Core-Lokt 180 grain. I was shooting for the middle of the lungs, like the book said.
I have had more than 25 Georgia whitetail run well over 100 yards hit like that. Not big deer, maybe 110- 140 pounds.

Since I had a scope, having gotten tired of long range blood tracking, I began going for the neck shot. Middle of the neck, Dead Right There. But, the neck is a much smaller target than the lungs.
I also shot quite a few with the muzzleloader, and the .50 round ball would drop a whitetail on a lung shot in less than 50 yards. I killed several dozen with my 2 muzzleloaders and none made over 50 yards on a lung shot.

Since y'all Yankees are dropping them in their tracks on a lung shot, I guess our Georgia deer are nuclear-powered.

So you're saying true woodmen never lost a critter?

Track and jump a gut shot deer versus using a drone to confirm if he is still alive or dead greatly increases odds of losing that deer.

Yeah, I know, but he is talking about a 30 caliber, shooting 180gr projectiles.

If that deer runs 110 yards, it was not shot through the heart lungs.

At least you know, we do shoot our share of deer, Brian !

My longest tracking job, was on a doe which my son misjudged the angle, qtring too, rather than broadside.

Shot behind the shoulder, nicked 1 lung, liver, & exited behind the diaphragm.

Bumped bedded deer @ about 150 yards & backed out for 2 hours.

Found her, dead in bed, an additional 100 yards.

Thems deers must be tougher'n hell to need a 180 out of an '06.

Nope, never ever, had a DRT, except for CNS.

Unlike Brian, we are not even high shoulder shot takers.

All our deer run, just not as far as your smaller, but obviously bionic deer.

Maybe, big gun compensating for small dick ?

I wonder how many of these guys use only a longbow or other primitive weapon.

No modern coated optics to maximize light gathering ability or compounds with fiber optic sight to do the same.

Also no flashlights to recover deer shot at dark. Leave em overnight they won't be spoiled or eaten up by the coyotes, wolves or bears.

Lots of his YouTube videos are Amish folk shootin the deer

Or a guy hunting thick swamps.

Different areas and tactics change.

Some of these guys are comfortable with what works in their area.

The shoe doesn't always fit.

Yep, use the drone to confirm where deer is or confirm its dead instead of jumping a live deer that crosses property you have no access to or runs clear out of the county before bedding up again to only be lost.

I will use whatever I can to maximize recovery.

We owe that to the animal.

Some have an ego to feed though.

common sense should be used for a recovery of a deer or what ever other animal that has been shot .yes drones should probably be used ,i see very little difference in what / when people use a bunch a game cameras to hunt with that show day and time on goes right away to your phone.

This^^

Why would a hunter with even a little experience jump a gut shot deer? Ya knew ya gut shot it.

Technology is the easy way out and understandable why some choose it.

Not every gut shot deer is dead within 12+ hours/overnight.

So many here think their experience(s) are the only ones valid, or that all are the same.

I've certainly seen lunged deer go 100 yards.
PRB lunged deer have went quite a bit farther, 100 without a drop of blood.

Or dropped within feet.

Body shots are like rolling dice. (If you don't take out structure)
Good shot, round, bullet....you will get a 1-6. Sometimes the damn thing rolls off the table!

There are 2 bullets my experience has been opposite from what others
here get. One I found hard for the application and not very effective, the other
was opposite. Very hard on meat, but very quick killing.

The guys who have posted opposite seem experienced and honest, so
my conclusion is a particular batch or some other factor affected my results.
I'm certainly not wasting my time losing game or meat to research it farther,
there are too many good choices today.

Nor am I going to jump up and scream to the world that So and So is a dumb, lying,
Poser because we get different results.




As to drones being abused?

Get real.

The laws on hunting are so varied that establishing what's actually the hard and fast moral rules is impossible.

Was going to post that pretty much everything possible was legal somewhere, sometime, with the exception that paying The Man to pursue God's creatures was ubiquitous. Then I remembered that some landowners don't have to buy license!😵‍💫😵‍💫

Tech?
Ain't no one chases tech more that Traditional🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 "Bowhunters".


Outlaws will outlaw, you ain't gonna stop it.
Others will break laws occasionally, either purposely or accidently.

Following the outlaw it so it can't be used wrongly?

Ho Li Fuuuuuudge.
Outlaw carrying a flashlight because you could use it to roadhunt,

Outlaw driving a vehicle while possessing a gun because folks "might" roadhunt.
(Oh [bleep], that's not always illegal)


Oh wait.

Outlaw what I don't use,
Don't have,
Don't want someone to use!



PGC is a King in the "Make it illegal because someone might do something illegal with it" game.

Either now or until recently we couldn't,
Carry a handgun while primitive hunting.
Use dogs to track wounded deer.
Hunt deer and anything else during the same dates. (Except for primitive seasons)
Hunt small game with a centerline.
It goes on.


Ironically, we can spotlight. Just to look for deer.
In recent times we can even posses a handgun while doing it. But you gotta be careful. A 9mm is OK, probably. If they determine its more a deer killing gun than a defense gun...it's illegal. If your carry gun is a 6" M19, who knows until they tell you.

But, we can't spotlight during deer season!😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Looks like Dillon is into the Old Crow and drunk posting.

Few years ago i seen a buck get hit in front of me, it broke is back, I dragged the deer to the side of the road sat on it and called the game warden, took that prick almost 2 hours to get there, he was eating breakfast, alot of people stopped to see if I needed help, they seen I had a glock on and said why don't you just shoot it, well because if I did the prick that was eating donuts would of fined me