In Texas we trap them, blow them up, shoot them from helicopters, and shoot them from quads while chasing them at 50mph. They're too smart to shoot them from a standing position.
I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together while riding my motorcycle along county roads in the middle of nowhere, San Saba County. But they normally stay out of sight; they're super smart.
(Assuming you mean a small drone a citizen could be licensed to operate): Do drones have the ability to stabilize the recoil from a gun powerful enough to kill a pig?
You could certainly air drop explosives on them but that connotes serious risk to the environment and extremely inhumane injury or death to the pigs.
I wonder if some kind of dart could be used to euthanize them, though it would likely cost more than bullets and still lack accuracy.
What an awful topic though. The pigs have no idea they’re invasive. They’re such intelligent creatures, it’s an incredible shame that we’ve caused this.
>(Assuming you mean a small drone a citizen could be licensed to operate): Do drones have the ability to stabilize the recoil from a gun powerful enough to kill a pig?
The FAA defines drones as being up to 55lbs, so yes. Most of the off-the-shelf octocopter cinema drones could probably handle an appropriate firearm with some minimal modifications. Now, whether the FAA and ATF will throw a tantrum over a remote control weapons platform like that is a different story...
> whether the FAA and ATF will throw a tantrum over a remote control weapons platform like that
I Am Not A Lawyer, and attempting to build an armed drone without the advice of one one will probably earn you an ATF raid with your dog shot, your spouse sniped, you arrested, your house burned down, a cabinet appointment for the raid leader, and you put on national news with the option for a Netflix documentary 20 years later.
The FAA has a regulation prohibiting the operation of "Dangerous Weapons" attached drones without prior approval [0], so that's your first and biggest hurdle.
A servo-actuated trigger is likely going to get deemed a "machine gun" by the ATF, as it's one firmware tweak (or bug) away from firing more than once per "trigger pull" by the human user. Now if you were to become an NFA firearms manufacturer (Type 07 FFL+Class 2 SOT) you would be manufacturing, demonstrating (remember that FAA approval) and selling hog hunting drones officially.
To reiterate: Do not even think about doing this without actual legal counsel.
IIRC flying a reaper drone and firing hellfire missiles is insanely expensive, so unless those pigs are terrorists, fly spy balloons, have massive oil reserves or made up weapons of mass destructions, it'll never come to drone strikes.
Maybe we can get them to the negotiations table and broker a peace deal with the super pig regime and turn them into an ally.
If I was a defense contractor, I would kick off a research program for an explosive weapon that was guaranteed to kill the hog and reliably cook the giblets into instantly edible bacon.
For any VCs reading this, please wire me funding at your convenience.
I've seen packs of 15-20 running along together while riding my motorcycle along county roads in the middle of nowhere, San Saba County. But they normally stay out of sight; they're super smart.
Good luck.