I wonder how well they'd stand up to a couple shells' worth of 12 Gauge bird shot... :mrgreen:
PETA is radical but PETA is also smart, their moves are calculated. Someone is going to start shooting at PETA drones, that's inevitable and PETA knows it. You have to consider why PETA wants their drone to be shot at. Clearly it's a bait move so as to make propaganda.
This doesn't mean you should avoid hunting PETA drones, it means you need to take steps not to get in trouble. Just like you don't want a mountain lion or a grizzly to make you their dinner, don't let that drone put you on every PETA pamphlet and news outlet. Don't just fire on a drone because you're being harassed, you need to become a drone stalker. You're hunting new game now. You need to learn it's habits, it's territories, you need to learn how to camouflage yourself against it, you need to learn how it communicates, you need to brainstorm strategy with other hunters of the same game.
Under any circumstances, don't ever fire your gun in anger. If you are going to hunt drones, it has to be a sport, not an act of vengeance.
Do you even use a gun at all to down a drone? Can you disrupt it's signal? Can you override it? Can you trick it into crashing? Can you use an EMP device to knock it out? Typically the low-teck methods are the best...why go after the drone if you can cause the power to go out from it's control station temporarily, long enough for the drone to fly into a tree?
And should you succeed in downing a drone, it's not over. Someone's gona come looking for that drone. An investigation is going to take place. What did the drone record? What kind of damage did you cause to the drone? If you used a gun, is there anything about the ballistics unique to you: did you shoot it with a .50cal and you're the only .50cal owner in the county? Are your finger prints on a spent casing you didn't pick up? Did you use a signal to hack the control and that signal had some kind of digital signature which could be tracked back to unique parts perchesed by credit card in the county?
If you're going to become a drone stalker, you need to think it through It's not as easy as sitting in your tree-hide and just shoot it down and forget it. That's exactly what PETA wants you to do.