gamestalker
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I know in my state that you can't hunt an area within 72 hrs. of flying over it. But I wonder if that would apply to using drones?
Technically you aren't flying over it, and the regulations make no reference to using RC flown air craft with video devices, at least not that I've ever read. I know guides that will fly over the units for weeks even months prior to, and up to the 3rd day prior to a hunt. This is especially true for our annual G&F auctioned hunts, in which the tag is open for the full year, giving the hunter all the time they need. Some if those tags will auction for 50K or more, then the guides will charge as much as 100K or more, but this is for a WR class elk or deer, yes deer, Arizona strip deer.
I went to one of the annual G&F auctions back in the late 80's, this one guy paid like 50K for a strip deer tag, then he hired a team of guides, they charged him well over 100K, of which a big chunk went to months of helicopter chartering. So in a case like that, a drone would save someone a bunch of money.
GS
Technically you aren't flying over it, and the regulations make no reference to using RC flown air craft with video devices, at least not that I've ever read. I know guides that will fly over the units for weeks even months prior to, and up to the 3rd day prior to a hunt. This is especially true for our annual G&F auctioned hunts, in which the tag is open for the full year, giving the hunter all the time they need. Some if those tags will auction for 50K or more, then the guides will charge as much as 100K or more, but this is for a WR class elk or deer, yes deer, Arizona strip deer.
I went to one of the annual G&F auctions back in the late 80's, this one guy paid like 50K for a strip deer tag, then he hired a team of guides, they charged him well over 100K, of which a big chunk went to months of helicopter chartering. So in a case like that, a drone would save someone a bunch of money.
GS