Don’t bring a drone to a anti-aircraft missile fight;
Photos provided by the animal rights group show the multicopter smoking on the ground, with its lithium polymer battery supply smoldering. Another photo shows the drone’s video camera smashed. The drone, dubbed “Angel,” was a Cinestar 8 octocopter estimated at $4,000.
This wasn’t the first time SHARK has been shot out of the sky. This is the fourth drone that the group has lost while investigating pigeon shootings. One drone landed on club property, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit.
h/t Punch My Ticket
this is an old story that came up about a month or so ago. looks like an excuse for a nice 10 gauge to me
They have invented a new take on skeet shooting.
A big thank you to the activists for providing the free targets.
As old Willy said, “A plague on both their houses”. What a bunch of ding dongs – one bunch of oddballs getting their jollies by shooting captive birds and the other bunch doing aerial spying on them. Yuk.
They are just getting target practice for the drones that the US govt are using throughout the USA. I would like to see what happens if SHARK flew over private property like, perhaps, Area 51.
SHARK is trespassing, and if there is a sign on the gates that spying is not allowed, then they have a right to shoot them down. Even if one does not believe in the sport, there is no reason to break the law as SHARK is doing. I bet there might be a judge/lawyer in the “legal club.”
You’d think the brainiacs of SHARK could find more beneficial applications for their technology than monitoring something as insignificant as a bunch of trigger-happy dudes wanting to shoot live birds instead of skeet. Their drone was “fair game” in this narrow arena of kindergarten playground activities.
The correct response to this is unflagging mockery of the activist goofs.
Go ahead kids send up another moving target already….PULL!
OMMAG at December 2, 2012 11:26 AM
Yeah it’s pretty much like HAMAS (and sympathizers) bitching about IRON DOME…..
Irony dome?
This is almost as funny as that Onion News piece about the PETA protesters at the biker rally.
I think I posted this to SDA reader’s Tips some time ago. Anyway it’s great to see any of the obnoxious intrusive belligerence of the left literally shot down. This should happen more often to give the radicals the message they are fxxking with the wrong people.
I’m a firm believer in not killing animals unless you are going to eat them,or use their parts.
However,the pigeons that get away are free birds now. Who knows what goes through a pigeon’s head(besides occasional birdshot)? They may enjoy this little game.
SHARK helicopter drones are becoming an endangered species.
These obnoxious “rights” activists would see us all in chains just for owning guns.
They have no “right” to fly over someone else’s property, let alone video them,if the situation was reversed,they’d be the first to bitch to the “authorities”.
Keep shooting the drones down.
And I can’t imagine the lack of thrill shooting a bunch of released pigeons. To each his own.
How nice of SHARK to give them something for target practice!
If it was a manned flying object wouldn’t that constitute trespassing? Same thing then.
There are also laws preventing interference of hunters although canned hunts may not be covered. That state may not have that law anyway.
Side note: What a great tool for checking your own property. I want one. Then I can use it to locate hogs on my customers’ properties and save a bunch of time.
Whatever pigeon hunter brought down this bird should be awarded the 1st place trophy. I hope he/she paints a little drone kill symbol on the stock of their shot gun.
It’s too bad the drone came down in such good shape, and also too bad groups like SHARK don’t get to live the results of their beliefs. Like living in a tee pee, and scrounging for food while trying to follow a PC rule book and red tape designed by well educated well paid useless idiots.
Then again maybe the reset button is a bit closer than they think?
The Liberal Left loves to spy on people’s private lives and trespass private property to take away their freedoms, liberties and rights.
Now they do it with bird blenders in the sky, those hunters were saving birds by shooting them down.
dmorris >
“And I can’t imagine the lack of thrill shooting a bunch of released pigeons. To each his own.”
Yea to each their own, I would have far more fun shooting the Drones myself and would never senselessly shoot any animal. I do however hunt upland game birds for sport and food every year, but every bird harvested makes it to dinner. Want organic? Eat what you hunt.
I need to invent a stealth drone.
Fourteen illegals jumping out of a car. Now that would be really funny if they were wearing clown suits!
Shooting pigeons released from a cage seems pretty boring, but then again never done it. Still what’s the difference between that and killing any other livestock? If you eat meat you cannot bitch about it.
Upland bird hunting on the other hand is fun.
This drone shooting looks like fun too.
The pigeons are decoys to lure the multicopters in.
The activists are going to have to start a group dedicated to protecting the life and dignity of multicopters.
knight 99, you could get me out to shoot drones anytime! I’d use SSG though, to extend the range and hitting power.
We used to shoot pigeons in the local grain elevator with our BB guns, “Daisy-Red Ryder”. You had to hit them in the head,or the BB would bounce off their wings.
Used to hunt grouse, ruffed and sharptail,(with a .22) when I was a kid in Manitoba, now I’m here in B.C.,don’t bother to hunt them anymore, not enough open prairie around here.
And the duck/goose hunting out here is not too good either,at least in areas I know about.
Deer and moose hunting is good,though.
dmorris >
Ha ha, yea maybe these guys just say their shooting live pigeons to bring in the drone targets. It should catch on, “killing two birds with one stone” including the bird-brains finances.
Definitely a sniper rifle at long ranges, but I’d give prizes/ points to people that could lure them in close enough to get with a shotgun.
The Nobel Prize should go to someone who invents some sort of shotgun flack, like miniature WW2 rounds puffing away at B52’s. Bet you’d draw paying crowds for that.
Knight 99, you are referring to proximity fused shells, which only the allies had. It was essentially a miniature radio transceiver which detonated the shell when it received a return signal from a nearby aircraft. I don’t know how much of a radio return an octocopter would give. The germans had a homing missile that was tuned to the exhaust sound of the B17s engine and since the
The axis powers used a timed fuse that had to be set for the target altitude prior to loading.
By the way you transposed B25’s. The B52 made it’s first flight in 1952.
To see an example of dove shooting go here and look at the second photograph.
treksafaris.com/south-america-bolivia-hunting,category.asp
Up to 20% of the grain crop in Bolivia is eaten by pigeons.
I don’t know the details of how the pigeon shooting works, but it is probably not much different than pheasant shooting in England. Game keepers raise the birds in a semi wild environment, people pay to shoot them, then the land owner sells the birds to game butchers who sell them to consumers. Its really the ultimate in organic free range agriculture. Don’t kn ow if its the same with the pigeons, but they are supposed to be good to eat.
Al_in_Ottawa >
Cool, thanks for the history lesson.
Have flown on many dozens and dozens of commercial planes and helicopters being a Star Alliance Super Elite member for well over a decade, and I still can’t tell one from another. A little embarrassing when asked at times what I just flew in on. Doh, it had wings and allot of seats.
Yes I don’t doubt pigeons are a bigger pest in some places more than just crapping all over monuments. Genuine pest control qualifies as legitimate sport shooting in my books. Of course I don’t rally against those that may raise them to slaughter for fun, although I do consider it pointless and juvenile and they have my societal distain. I view people over 15 years of age who pointlessly kill like that losers that seem to kill to fulfill some deep psychotic malfunction.
I’ve known a few clown like that in my lifetime, all of whom I quite hunting with many years ago.
Liberal lefties seem to only like culling humans when they can, especially black people through welfare/ drug dependence and abortions.
Makes me want to make a fake web page and leak that there is a pigeon shoot. Minority pigions. With birth defects. And get another $4,000 chopper shot down.
What I was thinking is a large RC plane. A Nazi plane to boot. Maybe a Me-109. Attach some wire, or thick mono trailers off the tail. With hooks. Lots a d lots of hooks. Fly over the chopper, dragging the hooks. When the catch the tension will break a 5lb mono tie/loop at der Me-109 StormFlug chopper killer’s tail, which will free the Me-109 StormFlug. The cable will be sucked in the chopper blades disabling it and causing it to be captured and held until a prisoner exchange.
Well, it’s a thought.
Well we know what sort of bait to use to call in leftist zombies, it’s hard to tell with has the higher intelligence, the pigeons or the zombies. personally I think the pigeons have an edge over the lefty walking dead.
Perhaps I missed the part where they showed a bullet hole in the helicopter. Seems to me they did a lot of damage during that “manual landing.” Perhaps the ‘copter was “taking a dive” in more ways than one. No matter.
While I applaud making hippies cry, I’d have to ask whether the shooters were violating their range limits. Those bullets still land somewhere. Might be that has more legal payoff than distant video of a few flying pixels getting turned into a lot of drifting, smaller pixels.
I’m waiting for the follow-up story, when “hippies taunt man armed with gun” ends in tragedy.
I agree with you Knight 99, shooting pigeons released from cages is pretty lame. Like you, I also hunt but its to eat and certainly not for killing just for the sake of killing. Unless its predator control, but even then I feel bad everytime I shoot a coyote – just something about dogs I have I suppose but it has to be done.
I kind of am in some agreement with these protestors as long as they protest legally for that reason.
Problem is the next thing they’ll be doing with the drone is screwing up the deer hunt – they already have people roaming through the woods disrupting the hunt in some States and this kind of thing can get ugly real fast. Not to mention it disturbs the deer.
Ryan >
If one of those loose flying bullets happened to kill someone, the hippies should be charged with manslaughter (possibly premedetated homocide resulting in manslaughter).
They in effect caused these guys to defend their property from the illegal violation of their privacy.
If a Cinestar octocopter can be programmed to go look at a pigeon shoot, it shouldn’t take much more technology to create a Cinestar octocopter that goes hunting for other Cinestar octocopters. If someone would contribute a couple of these devices to yours truly (I’m a trifle short on cash these days)I will get on the job toot de sweety. Alternative proposals gratefully considered.
Good fences make for good neighbours.
If your neighbour stood on the other side of your 8 foot privacy fence with a handycam on a 12 foot pole I doubt the law would have much sympathy for them. Only difference here is an electronic gizmo is standing in for that 12 foot pole.
In town The average dude would probably employ the use of another 12 foot pole to bring down the camera and put a stop to the peeping Tom. Over a private shooting club…Whoops, another accidental discharge, 4th one! Good thing I was carrying the shotgun straight up like I learned in hunter safety.
langmann, I have read that live trap shooting is actually one of the most challenging shooting sports there is, much more so than skeet or sporting clays. A clay pigeon is launched in a straight line at the same speed everytime, while live pigeons are small, fast (50-60mph) and very erratic flyers. It was due to public outcry over cruelty in the early 20th century that clay pigeons were substituted for live ones and the modern sport of trap shooting was formalized.
By the way, the pigeon species native to the Americas was the passenger pigeon which is extinct. The pigeons you find in the Americas are all descended from european rock doves that were imported by the French to be raised for eggs and meat. In Bolivia and Colombia there are ample nesting places in the mountains, no predators and lots of crops for them to eat.
Was half watching Red Eye (Greg Gutfeld absent) in the wee hours of
Sat morning and a begmercial for A*erican H**ane Soci*ty came on.
Almost swallowed my chewin’ tobaccy.
That is one of the most obnoxious fake animal care semi cults going.
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I wonder if these mental-midgets could possibly stand any closer to the traffic lanes. The mobile HQ table is set right on the white line and the dumbass operating the drone is standing on the white line with cars whizzing by. These type people are so self-absorbed, they’re oblivious to their own safety.
Those pigeon loving peta boys oughta get themselves a real chopper. Maybe a vintage Vietnam era Huey would do the job.
Imagine the the looks on the faces of those pigeoni shooters when they see a Huey coming over the trees….. they had better pack a change of BVD’s.