{"id":115104,"date":"2019-09-01T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T21:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=115104"},"modified":"2024-08-03T20:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T01:53:51","slug":"hunt365-poachers-drones-gps-bag-critters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/hunt365-poachers-drones-gps-bag-critters\/","title":{"rendered":"Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" title=\"Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/drone.gif\" alt=\"Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters\" class=\"wp-image-115105\" \/><figcaption><em>Poachers are taking advantage of commercially available drones, GPS, aerial mapping, and night vision. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easy access to space-age technology has allowed hunters in the United States to scout more effectively, stalk more precisely, and bag more legal game. But those same tools have also benefited poachers, and fish and wildlife agencies have been forced to improve their strategies right alongside them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new report from South Carolina\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/drones-gps-make-this-a-golden-age-for-sc-poachers\/article_30a67b66-c825-11e9-a3e8-8b75bdfd85ee.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-poachers-drones-gps-bag-critters\" title=\"Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">The Post and Courier<\/a> highlighted a few of these methods, though both state and national agencies are tight-lipped about modern-day poaching techniques and the ways wildlife officials bag their own kind of game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had to evolve,\u201d said South Carolina Department of\nNatural Resources Lt. Angus MacBride. \u201cIt\u2019s not only technologies but\nstrategies that have changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One South Carolina poacher used the GPS on his phone to target both ducks and deer out of season and at night. He broke the law 56 times in a single month but was caught when SC DNR officials used his own strategies against him: they put a GPS device on his vehicle and tracked him every step of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/hunt365-social-media-tool-catch-poachers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-poachers-drones-gps-bag-critters\" title=\"Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters\">Social Media Proving to be a Useful Tool to Catch Poachers<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Other poachers use Google aerial imaging, hand-held radios, and drones to figure out which spots to target, how to access them, and how to get away quickly. They also take advantage of commercially available night vision optics and high-power rifle scopes to see and hit game more easily. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What some are calling the \u201cGolden Age of Poaching\u201d is\nchanging the map for poachers and law enforcement alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Modern technology] brings in land that people didn\u2019t know\nexisted before,\u201d SC DNR Sgt. Freddie Earhart told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But wildlife officials have kept pace. The Post pointed to one incident in which an SC DNR officer used an electric bike with night vision goggles to approach and apprehend a deer poacher who otherwise might have heard him coming. Officers catch other poachers using phone and laptop tracking methods, though some make it easier than others: one poacher in South Carolina was caught after he posted images on social media bragging about the game he\u2019d killed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/hunt365-new-jersey-anti-hunting-activists-work-to-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"hunt365-poachers-drones-gps-bag-critters\" title=\"Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters\">New Jersey Anti-Hunting Activists Work To Ban Hunting Town By Town<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>South Carolina wildlife officials were quick to point out\nthat while technology is advancing, the same tried-and-true methods are still\nrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe most important tool for success in the anti-poaching venture is to use driven, crafty, fearless woodsmen of integrity,\u201d former SC DNR wildlife officer David Strickland told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The oldest tracking \u201ctechnology\u201d hasn\u2019t retired yet, either.\nAn SC DNR Labrador retriever named Blue caught two poachers last year who had\nbeen illegally hunting in a Francis Marion National Forest wildlife management\narea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only so much technology that can help you in this area,\u201d Earhart said. \u201cBlue might not be technology, but he is. A good old-fashioned dog and his nose is hard to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-align:center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easy access to space-age technology has allowed hunters in the United States to scout more effectively, stalk more precisely, and bag more legal game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":115105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1273,1217,593,992],"tags":[1276],"featured":[4081],"hunt365":[4089],"class_list":{"0":"post-115104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-huntnews","9":"category-hunt365","10":"category-jordan-michaels","11":"category-specialty-publications","12":"tag-huntnews","13":"featured-row3","14":"hunt365-hunting"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poachers in U.S. Using High-Tech Drones, GPS to Illegally Bag Critters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Poachers have upped their game, and state wildlife agencies have had to keep pace. 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