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Rifles aren’t a desirable drone-interception tool. For one thing, it’s hard to hit a small moving target that may be hundreds of meters up in the air. Overshoot
by _iyig 7y ago
Rifles aren’t a desirable drone-interception tool. For one thing, it’s hard to hit a small moving target that may be hundreds of meters up in the air. Overshoot is also a huge problem - unlike birdshot pellets which fall harmlessly to the ground after 300 meters or so, rifle bullets can travel at lethal velocity for several kilometers. Even if you hit the drone, your bullet may keep traveling.
- reaperducer 7y agoit’s hard to hit a small moving target that may be hundreds of meters up in the air. I wonder if a local skeet-shooting club could be deployed for this sort fo thing. Certainly they have the practice. But I'm not sure about the range.
- JshWright 7y agoYou don't use a rifle for skeet shooting either...
- loeg 7y agoI don't think you need a .50 cal to take out a drone; a 22 would be fine and basically doesn't have the overshoot problems you described.
- _iyig 7y ago.22 LR fired at 45 degrees will travel for at least a mile, according to ballistic calculators and the warning on my ammo box.