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Drone deer recovery

well there are folks all over the facebook pages promoting it, so its definitely growing in popularity around here and people are doing it...
 
I'm not sure if y'all remember or not, but I too started a drone deer recovery in Tennessee called middle Tennessee drone deer recovery, actually the first one to do it in Tennessee. Well after several discussions with the state TWRA office they said this is illegal because they consider recovery a hunting practice and they wouldn't let me do it. I hope for this guys sake they have changed their minds BecUse that's an expensive drone, I since sold my drone and closed the business.
Can you, or would you be interested, in doing pet finding?
 
Excellent points Southern Sportsman.

I also question thermal imagers for recovering deer. If the drone operator doesn't get there fast, in cold weather a deer carcass goes cold quite quickly. In addition, some habitat types, like pine forests, block the thermal signatures of deer. About 20 years ago, running deer censuses with FLIR was all the rage. However, in some habitat/terrain combinations it did a terrible job of "seeing" deer.
I mean, if you start tracking before sunrise and have given enough time for it to bleed out the body should still be plenty warm. 20 years of thermal technology has probably done wonders for what it can and can't pick up. YT videos with modern thermal and deer on the ground stand out like a sore thumb.

I've gutted deer the morning after when it was well below freezing and the inside was still steaming when I opened it up.
 
I mean, if you start tracking before sunrise and have given enough time for it to bleed out the body should still be plenty warm. 20 years of thermal technology has probably done wonders for what it can and can't pick up. YT videos with modern thermal and deer on the ground stand out like a sore thumb.

I've gutted deer the morning after when it was well below freezing and the inside was still steaming when I opened it up.
It all depends how long they been dead and the temps outside.
 
I mean, if you start tracking before sunrise and have given enough time for it to bleed out the body should still be plenty warm. 20 years of thermal technology has probably done wonders for what it can and can't pick up. YT videos with modern thermal and deer on the ground stand out like a sore thumb.

I've gutted deer the morning after when it was well below freezing and the inside was still steaming when I opened it up.
Not really.
 
Hide reflects sunlight and heat as well. Don't have to hurry up as much as you think.
 
It is going to be one of those deals where it depends entirely on the WO you're dealing with. I get the slippery slope of the practice because there is no doubt it will be used nefariously as well. But man, it sure would beat a dog.
 
It is going to be one of those deals where it depends entirely on the WO you're dealing with. I get the slippery slope of the practice because there is no doubt it will be used nefariously as well. But man, it sure would beat a dog.
Yea but name one thing that couldn't be used nefariously.. That is just part of anything you do. A trail cam could be used to never have to spend anytime in the woods just go shoot when he shows up but thats legal. Honestly i dont see it as a slippery slope but your right. The WO is the only one thats interpretation matters
 
I believe this is another issue that should go to court. I believe most any judge would tell the TWRA to jump in the lake again so long they are looking to recover a shot deer or animal.

The TWRA is a dumpster fire and the dumpster is melting.
 
Yea but name one thing that couldn't be used nefariously..
That is a valid point.

Just to be clear. I am all for the technology regardless. Anything that can help recover more animals with as little intrusion as possible is a good thing to me. A surgical extraction.

I would venture to guess the vast majority of those offering such a service could smell a rat from a mile away.
 
Drone smone. I think anyone who shoots a deer poorly and then loses it should be racked with personal guilt, self flagellation, feel guilty for even thinking they are any kind of hunter, have to get continuous therapy from their hunting buddies in the form of continuous brow beating and ridicule. That way we will either give up hunting or make dang sure it never happens again. That's what happens to me!
 
Drone smone. I think anyone who shoots a deer poorly and then loses it should be racked with personal guilt, self flagellation, feel guilty for even thinking they are any kind of hunter, have to get continuous therapy from their hunting buddies in the form of continuous brow beating and ridicule. That way we will either give up hunting or make dang sure it never happens again. That's what happens to me!

That's what buddies are for!
 
Drone smone. I think anyone who shoots a deer poorly and then loses it should be racked with personal guilt, self flagellation, feel guilty for even thinking they are any kind of hunter, have to get continuous therapy from their hunting buddies in the form of continuous brow beating and ridicule. That way we will either give up hunting or make dang sure it never happens again. That's what happens to me!
Uhm, i will take the drone for a thousand alex😂😂😂😂
 

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