If you want to talk about flirting with the line of being questionable then a drone is much more so…….With a dog you have the measuring stick of “can the buck get away?”…..The dog assesses that for you. With a drone its simply locate the deer and then “can I get a shot?”…..

I had a situation earlier this year that was very iffy where we tracked a buck shot through the backstrap with a bow and the dog didn’t show much interest in the track as if it was non-fatal……Two days later the hunter located it with a drone bedded in a pine prairie and shot it with a rifle….Was the original shot fatal or did he just ambush a buck out of his bed with the aid of a drone??.....I don’t know…..but that’s where it starts getting pretty questionable and you start opening up pandora’s box to a potential whole new paradigm for what we’re gonna call hunting. If we’re gonna start locating deer with drones and then using the info to ambush them, then you really have to start questioning if we’re crossing the line of fair chase. Part of me thinks that maybe that’s being a little Karenish as well and over hyping something that isnt really significant…….but the other half of me sees the reality of what’s now occurring and it makes me wonder what we’ll be calling hunting 5 years from now if everyone has one of these in their hunting camp. I kinda think though that deer are pretty much seen as a tolerated nuisance in this state so at the end of the day the powers that be arent really that concerned with how we kill them as long as we keep their numbers under control