The Concordia in Kitchener is the biggest single gathering of Oktoberfest on this side of the planet. Five thousand people at a time, easily. And that’s one Oktoberfest club of MANY in that city.
He hasn’t been able to sing —at all- for a decade, bordering on Vince Neil for how bad it got. It’s honestly overdue, and with EVH gone he’s lost the foundation to his fame.
Scouting fishing places on the river with the drone from the campsite. Lots of flood and runoff water due to recent heavy rains.
Turns out a side benefit of having a lifted truck is that you can use it as a ladder. my nose is jumping for joy
this is my goal, you’re just a few years ahead of me on the timeline. My boys are 4 and 7. I figure if I give them a few more years I got free labor for hunting and fishing camp with an RV, and my 7 year old can fly a drone like nobody’s business. by the way, thank you again for your recommendation on the dewalt fan. We’ve started using it when I grill but wanna leave the door open because it’s nice outside. Put it in front of the door and it pushes that smoke away like it’s on a quiet mission.
I've got 6 full trays of jalapenos outside in the dehydrator. There's also 2 Carolina reapers in there. My neighbors might be getting maced but we aren't!
We were still looking for a place to go fishing at that point (10am) so driving was still in the cards... shortly after that we just fucked off to a field and played with the drone and drank until all the batteries were dead. And cooked our asses off. My buddy's an ex pro cook, so between the two of us we put on a hell of a feast. And to your point, yeah, most drones these days are pretty autonomous... but the new-ish DJI FPV is a fucking handful. It goes insanely fast, and requires some actual flying skill to keep in the air. This one we were using was the new Air2S, and it rocked. 4k video, up to 4x optical zoom... and 15km range. It was only "interesting" when a local hawk took interest. I wasn't sure if it was going to be attacked mid air or not.
have you tried fishing with it yet? I've seen a lot of people at the coast use their drones to take the bait out to the "perfect" spot then drop it and return. Imagine it wouldn't be as necessary when you're in casting distance, but for larger lakes it sure looks fun as hell!
nah, fuck that. this one is a small drone and it'd be a PITA to try and figure out some sort of remote controlled release for it. As it was we did some trials around having it land on his boat... and we think we can pull that off on the (Great) lake without a turning it into a sub. Besides getting some cool drone shots like we're the REAL Miami Vice, there may be some benefit to being 1,500 feet in the air looking down and seeing what's going on. I just wish I had one of these things back when I was deer hunting. It'd be a game changer (and highly illegal) to sit in the hunt camp and scope out where the deer were bedding down so you knew for sure where to hike off to that day.
Note: not a hunter. I'm interested to know what makes that illegal. The use of a drone? Scoping out sleeping areas in general?
at least in the states, some places won't even let you hunt over bait. Like you can't hunt at a deer feeder and such. Usually the ethical debate -- high fence vs. fair chase/free range -- and the conservation approach as well, making it more difficult to find and kill them if populations are hurting. Then you have some hunters who won't hunt on bait for their own ethical reasons, even if it is legal where they live. I don't know about drones being legal here or not, and obviously don't know about in Canada, but I can tell you for certain that there would be many hunters who would not use them on the basis of them believing it would qualify as "fair chase," and would then be an unethical kill if they harvested a deer that way. Once I read what nett said, I immediately thought of using my drone to hog hunt if it's legal (still need to check). But I couldn't, personally, bring myself to use it to hunt a non-predator like a deer.
I don't know about the legality of it in the States, but as RoTN stated the ethics of doing it would be off the charts. It wouldn't be hunting, it would flat out be an ambush. Figure out from the air where a herd is bedding down, set up a tree stand with some buddies, just wait till they arrive, and then start blasting. That's all kinds of messed up.
You’re not allowed to use tech to spot game you’re hunting. No airplanes, helicopters, drones, remote transmitted cameras, etc. It’s considered “unsportsmanlike”.
@Kubla Kahn it's not an airspace issue because flying the drone is totally legal. I can easily see why it'd be unsportsmanlike and unethical, I was just surprised it was illegal. Was wondering if the law was about drones in particular, technology in general, or what.
Technology. Can’t herd or drive deer with atv’s or aircraft, etc. Can’t gather remote intelligence other than with a trail cam.