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What is the difference between a drone and a electronic trail cam?

Drone has lights and makes noise, trail cam is disguised, silent, and probably IR (or at least a single flash, not a spotlight)?

Which allows the drone to flush out the deer. Kind of like using hunting dogs, which is not legal everywhere.

I would look at the law regarding use of trail cams, but I'm guessing it has to do with trail cams being in a fixed position while drones are mobile.

This is a big part of it

Same reason many areas (eg Alaska) allow you to fly into a hunting area, but not hunt the day you land. Otherwise you could use the plane for locating and/or driving animals fairly precisely

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