Using drones as a hunting aid has sparked a nuanced electronics-vs.-ethics debate.
You and a buddy are on Swan Lake, in southern Minnesota. Or maybe on Lake of the Woods, near the Northwest Angle. Or perhaps you're in the western part of the state, in Lac qui Parle County.
Wherever your location, you're planning to hunt ducks the next morning. And you're wondering where you'll find birds.
Are they in this bay over here? Or that one over there? Or perhaps neither.
To increase the chance you make the best possible choice, you assess the weather and other variables, and combine that information with intelligence gained through earlier scouting trips.
Then you head out, hoping for the best.
How old-fashioned of you.
Wouldn't you rather greatly increase your odds of bringing home a few birds by flying a camera-equipped drone over the area to take a peek before you hunt?