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New Telemetry Suggests Shot-Down Drone Was Higher Than Alleged
AmiMoJo writes: The pilot of the drone shot down Sunday evening over a Kentucky property has now come forward with video seemingly showing that the drone wasn't nearly as close as the property owner made it out to be. The data also shows that it was well over 200 feet above the ground before the fatal shots fired. The shooter, meanwhile, continues to maintain that the drone flew 20 feet over a neighbour's house before ascending to "60 to 80 [feet] above me."
Is it a drone, capable of flying by itself, or is it a radio controlled vehicle that must be piloted?
Was it lingering over the guy's property or passing through his airspace?
Clearly the pilot did not take evasive action. Being able to shoot it makes it seem like he was pestering the homeowner.
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Go grab a model aircraft. Spin up the prop, and drop a piece of shot into the prop.
You'll probably end up with a broken prop, without any appreciable ballistic energy being involved.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
In addition, this fear is too fearful to even look like fear - it's masked with goofy bravado. It's like the friend's husband who sleeps with a .45 under the pillow, no safety engaged. (takes time to take it off yaknow) Brags about it. The friend who keeps one in every room, and vehicle and a shorty strapped to his ankle. That's fear
This Tennessee case is just anther example of that fear. "Oh a Drone! Must be th' Guvmint spying on me, or maybe a homo looking for a place to marry his boyfriend! Quick, shoot that fucker down! Not on my property? Well it could fly over my property if it flew over my property - that's all the reason I need"
Lest liberal kooks think I'm just picking on the right wing kooks, your own version of this fear is your ADT protected house in your gated community with your safe room in it. You put yourself in a prison, yet you still don't feel safe.
But right wing kooks - you have a real problem coming up.....
When law abiding gun owners exercise their second amendment rights to weaponize their drones.
Your own divide by zero moment.
How you gonna protect yourself from illegal aliens and skittle brandishing chocolate people if you aren't allowed to have your Parrot packin'?
Fear is the mind killer. And it's doing a hellava job.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
I wonder that the video and data didn't go up immediately. A couple of days is enough to edit the telemetry and video. Maybe they're honest, maybe they're not. However, it seems really unlikely that someone would be massively offended by a drone 70 meters up.
If they were going to file charges against anyone, it was really stupid for the police not to impound the drone as evidence.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
There have been studies done before asking average people to estimate how high an object is in the sky (generally balloons or kites) and the estimates were generally awful. Even judging the difference between 60 and 200 feet is generally beyond the range of what most humans can comprehend in vertical distance.
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He was using #8 shot. The range with a 30 degree muzzle elevation for #8 is 100 yards. If the drone was at 200 feet altitude, and that much downrange (angle would be 45 degrees) the distance would be just under 100 yards -- I think if the altitude of 200 is correct (big if) these tables show that it was at the very limit of the range of #8 shot. I think it's far more likely that the drone was at around 100 feet or less above ground, and within 100 to 150 feet of the shooter. Even aviation grade barometric altimeters are often out by as much as 25 feet, and must be set for the ambient pressure (which drifts).
Ian Ameline
Two easy points of dispute. A) They use guns made/modified specifically to shoot that target. A standard shotgun some guy has behind his door for protection is going to have a very different pattern. B) How do you know this guy is such a crack shot?
And a third easy point, that has been mentioned many times above, is that shooting vertically, at a drone above you, limits the maximum range of the shot.
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I'm a competitive trap shooter who dabbles in what is called handicap trap shooting. Basically you shoot a normal round, then move back several yards to make it harder based on how well you scored in that first round. A 2 yard increase in distance has a HUGE effect on your ability to hit a target. It almost feels like a different sport, such are the changes you must make in your shooting habits.
Even if you are making your own shells and putting 1 and 1/8th ounces of powder in (which for many shooters is more than necessary), those pellets will likely not reach a 200 yard distance. Even firing straight up, there simply is not enough muzzle energy for one, and also there is air drag on each pellet and their pattern will be spread in a thin ~10+ foot diameter cloud.
I call insane luck or bullshit.
I can tell you are no lefty even though you might think you are. One of the key debating points of a lefty is how they derail the conversation from the critical points and into BS like you height and weight in order to avoid the process of actually having to think and put a position out filled with reason and logic instead of emotion. You fell for it and here you are being part of it. Maybe the fact that you admit to owning a gun and not being afraid to publicly acknowledge you will use it is a sign of your mental disorder or something.
Oh, and no, I'm not saying he isn't a lefty, we have had many conversations in which I know for a fact that he at least thinks he is a lefty. He just doesn't fit the stereotype and fell for one of their own tricks and spent too much energy on every unrelated ancillary detail while his point suffers.