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<blockquote data-quote="agdavis" data-source="post: 1045430" data-attributes="member: 57036"><p>This was printed in the 2014 Montana Hunting Regulations,</p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Airplane Spotting</span></span></span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Aircraft may not be used to locate big game </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">animals for the purpose of:</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">• Hunting those animals during the same hunting day after a person has been airborne or;</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">• Providing information for another person for the purpose of hunting those animals within the </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">same hunting day after being airborne; </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for the purpose of locating, spotting or hunting </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">big game, upland birds or other species under the management authority of FWP during </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'">Commission-established hunting seasons is prohibited.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> I have my pilots license and I have tried scouting during the off season with out much luck. I think it would be even harder from a small tv monitor with the camera bouncing around on a small drone in the wind. Also there was a Nova called "Spies that Fly", it was said that tracking a target with a Predator or Global Hawk military drone is easy the hard part is finding the target in the first place. They compared it to looking threw a straw. You could also buy a really nice spotting scope for the price of a drone not to mention a lot of ammo.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> Some people have said you could use drones to find wounded animals and that would be a little easier if you could find the area where you where hunting in the first place. I have a hard time finding people when I am on the ground because the descriptions of where they are at relate their prospective on the ground. From the air it gets a lot harder to tell what rock pile turn right at.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As to finding a blood trail, forget it unless there is a LOT of snow. Even then it would be better to track on the ground.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I have also talked with the pilot that flies the Fish and Game biologists when they are counting game (Elk, Bear, Wolves.....). He has helped outfitters look for animals that people have shot and lost and he said sometimes the only way to find anything is to see birds circling especially in the trees.</span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Now with all that said I don't think drones are a good substitute for scouting an area, but I don't hunt on small plots of land and I haven't hunted hogs. Even then I don't think they are worth it. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agdavis, post: 1045430, member: 57036"] This was printed in the 2014 Montana Hunting Regulations, [B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Airplane Spotting[/SIZE][/FONT][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Aircraft may not be used to locate big game [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]animals for the purpose of:[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]• Hunting those animals during the same hunting day after a person has been airborne or;[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]• Providing information for another person for the purpose of hunting those animals within the [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]same hunting day after being airborne; [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for the purpose of locating, spotting or hunting [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]big game, upland birds or other species under the management authority of FWP during [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=3][FONT=Calibri]Commission-established hunting seasons is prohibited.[/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] I have my pilots license and I have tried scouting during the off season with out much luck. I think it would be even harder from a small tv monitor with the camera bouncing around on a small drone in the wind. Also there was a Nova called "Spies that Fly", it was said that tracking a target with a Predator or Global Hawk military drone is easy the hard part is finding the target in the first place. They compared it to looking threw a straw. You could also buy a really nice spotting scope for the price of a drone not to mention a lot of ammo.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] Some people have said you could use drones to find wounded animals and that would be a little easier if you could find the area where you where hunting in the first place. I have a hard time finding people when I am on the ground because the descriptions of where they are at relate their prospective on the ground. From the air it gets a lot harder to tell what rock pile turn right at.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]As to finding a blood trail, forget it unless there is a LOT of snow. Even then it would be better to track on the ground.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I have also talked with the pilot that flies the Fish and Game biologists when they are counting game (Elk, Bear, Wolves.....). He has helped outfitters look for animals that people have shot and lost and he said sometimes the only way to find anything is to see birds circling especially in the trees.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Now with all that said I don't think drones are a good substitute for scouting an area, but I don't hunt on small plots of land and I haven't hunted hogs. Even then I don't think they are worth it. [/SIZE][/FONT] [/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=1] [/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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