What's A Good Bullet For Bagging DRONES?

[LouisianaHunter]

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Drones on Long Island: Nassau officials seek federal authority to take down drones, ticket operators

County police have received 117 reports of drone sightings since Nov. 1, Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said Thursday.

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Assuming YOU have FAA permission to shoot drones, What's a good .223/5.56 bullet for bringing one down?

Thanks 282

I had a guy with a thermal drone find a really nice buck I had shot in a swampy area where a dog couldn't trail due to water .
It's a fledgling business , but it's not going away .

 

[M1A1ABRAMS]

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[memtb]

Might work but sometimes a too tight choke with larger shot compresses the shot to the point that it deforms it and actually cause erratic patterns. You'd have to try it in your gun first.

Shooting "long distance" with shotguns involves a completely different approach/skill set that what we're accustomed to on LRH. memtb

 

[Calvin45]

Need to build a directional EMP device. That ought to drop 'em. Not sure about the legality though….

 

[ntsqd]

Need to build a directional EMP device. That ought to drop 'em. Not sure about the legality though….

Acquaintance in HS had a 100w linear amp for his cb radio. It must have been a pretty poor amp section because sitting in the parking lot diagonally across the intersection from the Jack in the Box he could key-up on any channel and obliterate whatever was said at the ordering station of the Drive-Thru.

It wouldn't take an EMP to obscure or even fry hobby drone electronics. Mil grade stuff would be a LOT harder to cripple.

 

[Hugger-4641]

Acquaintance in HS had a 100w linear amp for his cb radio. It must have been a pretty poor amp section because sitting in the parking lot diagonally across the intersection from the Jack in the Box he could key-up on any channel and obliterate whatever was said at the ordering station of the Drive-Thru.

It wouldn't take an EMP to obscure or even fry hobby drone electronics. Mil grade stuff would be a LOT harder to cripple.

Most drones are channel hopping on 2.4gh or higher. Linear amp won't affect them.

 

[Justice1327]

Close enough for me to get a picture like this with my camera phone

 

[ntsqd]

Most drones are channel hopping on 2.4gh or higher. Linear amp won't affect them.

Point was that it's possible. Maybe or maybe not with one of those amps specifically, but possible.

If you broadcast noise in the 2.4gHz range and it's strong enough to drown out any control signals, what will the hobby drone do? Those very few that I have any knowledge of will return to their controller's last known position. Then you might have a chance of IDing the operator.
I've no expectation of this type of attack working with anything Mil-spec. It was likely the very first thing that got hardened.

 

[ARlife4me]

anti-aircraft rounds/flak

 

[akmtnhnt]

When did the FAA get to decide what's an acceptable altitude over my private property? If I own the mineral rights under said property (the deed says so), then I also own the air rights above it to a reasonable altitude. 500 feet is reasonable. Below that and I'm going to be pretty upset.

Start with US. v. Causby and the related case law from there if you care to read more.

United States v. Causby - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Calvin45]

What's the effective range of those big net guns they use for wildlife capture are? Might be useful if you wanna catch the dang drone without destroying it!

 

[Calvin45]

Ooooh….an electrified net gun! Like a taser net!

 

[Parkerized]

#4 copper 12gauge.

 

[Hugger-4641]

If I were going to use a shotgun, I'd try a bolo rd or wax bound #2 shot in a 3-1/2" shell.
I probably would be more likely to use something with a little more range and a frangible bullet