That's not entirely true. At minimum, spotlighting is illegal (as it is in many states). Adding a drone to the mix doesn't change that and the defendant clear

That's not entirely true. At minimum, spotlighting is illegal (as it is in many states). Adding a drone to the mix doesn't change that and the defendant clearly used a spotlight on a live deer. The problem comes when the game dept also makes it clear it wants hunters to recovery injured/dead game. Which is hard at night without a spotlight. The answer, to me, seems to be "don't hunt deer at night." Making spotlights legal for recovery just make it impossible to enforce anti-spotlighting laws with live game.