Best Archery Practice: Taking Down Miniature Flying UAVs

Not long ago, I read about a new shooting sport in Colorado, instead of clay pigeon shooting, athletes were shooting UAVs with shotguns, rifles, and special weapons usually used to shoot birds. Well, shooting flying birds is very difficult, and when these jocks actually hit one, well, they ruin the whole day for said bird, so using a Micro Air Vehicle or MAV, UAV or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle model aircraft makes sense. . Okay, so let’s talk, okay?

Taking down birds with bullets, buckshot, or shotgun ammo isn’t easy, but I imagine it’s even harder to take one down with a bow and arrow. I’d like to see you do that, no matter how good you are. That’s a lot of math, even for a radar sensor weapon, so think how hard it would be to do with a bow and arrow, something that moves much slower than a bullet and the bird can see it coming and try to dodge it. slightly. Perhaps what we need is a new sport that uses archery arrows to shoot down drones the size of scale aircraft.

Aerovironment might even find a new application for its flapping bird UAV that is about the size of a carrier pigeon. If the tiny airplane-sized MAV robotic bird model had optical flow sensors for terrain avoidance that CentEye, Inc. in Washington DC produces, it could fly in circles while athletes waited for it to fly through the area to open. fire. on it, thus ensuring that stray arrows fell within the safe limits of the range. The Tiny OS (operating system) is very simple, not that expensive, and would work perfectly for what I’m describing here.

“Save the Birds” groups might love this idea, along with groups like PETA who hate to see hunting for sport, seeing it as cruel to animals. Personally, I can’t think of anything better to help hone the skills of archery athletes. Also, it would give us much more respect for our National Heritage and the American Indians who hunted moving targets with bows and arrows for food.

It is very difficult to hit a moving object, even more so when there are no references, which is the case when something is flying through the air like that. Well, I hope you will please consider all this and think about it.