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Same in Alaska. You aren't allowed to fly and hunt on the same day. Fact of the matter is it takes a plane to get some places.
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Although in Alaska, use of drones is explicitly disallowed for hunting, including spotting or locating game.
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Same down here, drones get no love.
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i got a care for drones its called 10 gauge /lead shot
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I did several flights to SE Idaho to scout for sheep once I had a tag. It was much faster and cheaper to fly than drive. A good friend had a nice plane and I paid for the gas. I was amazed at how easy it was to spot sheep from the plane...I was never in the military. I spotted the very sheep I wanted, flew down a second time and found him again within a 100 yards of where i had seen him on the previous trip. Drove down for my hunt, hiked in opening morning and he wasn't right there but I did locate him a quarter mile away. I was able to get up to him and made a good shot. I had Google Earth the place a bunch and drove down scouting over two weekends but learned more on one flight than all my other work.
I had similar success scouting for antelope on public ground. Learned there is an awful lot of good ground with no antelope and what antelope there tended to concentrate in limited areas. Opening morning was there sitting waiting for shooting time, popped over the ridge and had several shooter bucks in range but it seemed too easy so I passed. It was not long afterwards I was calling myself a dumbass. Took two days to get up on another shooter.
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I don't like the idea but it's legal in Idaho. You just can't fly and hunt the same day, either with manned plane or a drone.
I've been in the high mountains and had pilots from the Mountain Home AFB fly over a VERY low altitudes, practicing mountain flying. That would be spooky flying through a deep draw at 300 to 500 mph. Man do those engines roar in the mountains. Some years ago B-52's did the same thing. They were practicing for the DAY they had to go to the SOVIET UNION !!!
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Airplane hunting falls in the same class as long range shooting at animals as far as I am concerned. Amen
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