Thoughts on a Remote Control Decoy

@Kwarw1
I don't think the actual appearance will have to be anything to impress us humans. It just needs to look like a critter that's having issues and could be a possible meal for a coyote. (y)
Look at spinnerbaits for bass, they don't resemble anything that swims in the water, but they sure do attract bass. :sneaky:

I'm not getting enough information about some of the offerings from Walmart, about their RC vehicles. I'd like to know the range capability, as 100 yards would be nice. Plus, I've noticed a number of them have a 15 minute run time, after a 2 hour charge time. :rolleyes: I'm going to need a second battery, which some come with 2 batteries, some do not. The 1/12th scale or 1/14th scale appear to be the size I'm interested in having.
There's a local hobby shop that has all sorts of these types of RC vehicles and I'm going to visit them tomorrow to get more info about what I'm getting into for this project. I think it'll be time well spent. :cool:
 
bowhunter57 said:
@Kwarw1
I don't think the actual appearance will have to be anything to impress us humans. It just needs to look like a critter that's having issues and could be a possible meal for a coyote. (y)
Look at spinnerbaits for bass, they don't resemble anything that swims in the water, but they sure do attract bass. :sneaky:

I'm not getting enough information about some of the offerings from Walmart, about their RC vehicles. I'd like to know the range capability, as 100 yards would be nice. Plus, I've noticed a number of them have a 15 minute run time, after a 2 hour charge time. :rolleyes: I'm going to need a second battery, which some come with 2 batteries, some do not. The 1/12th scale or 1/14th scale appear to be the size I'm interested in having.
There's a local hobby shop that has all sorts of these types of RC vehicles and I'm going to visit them tomorrow to get more info about what I'm getting into for this project. I think it'll be time well spent. :cool:
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What I have learned so far:
1) it needs to go pretty fast,mine is not the bird dog caught it very easy and took one of the tails off while my grandson had him out playing with it. No more decoy play for him! I don't want him chasing furry stuff on the ground!!!
2) needs good throttle control so you can move slow and then take off like it is fleeing. I think it will trigger there chase instinct.
3) Good battery life for sure. It was 60 degrees here today and this one sucks, battery dead in 10 minutes. This would be worse in the cold weather.
4) the dogs paid no attention to the noise it made once in chase mode, I liked that fact.

I only paid like $25 for this thing so I didn't expect much plus I let it sit for over a year. I would think with a $200 budget you could put together a sweet setup. I mean in the big picture what's a couple hundred when folks are paying $1,500 for a caller,$7,000 thermals,$800 tripods. I got the response I expected from the dogs so I know it will work with yotes.
 
Problem is you can't go fast and stay on 4 wheels. Anything other than pavement and you bounce and flip. That's why I recommend the drone. SIL has 2 dogs that will 'play' with the drone.
 
I was once going to go that route but for reasons unknown never completed. I don’t think you need speed just movement, most I felt were too noisy and I was going to use a tracked model that would go just about anywhere and or over anything
 
popper43 said:
Problem is you can't go fast and stay on 4 wheels. Anything other than pavement and you bounce and flip. That's why I recommend the drone. SIL has 2 dogs that will 'play' with the drone.
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A drone opens up an entirely different set of issues. :unsure: I'm not as certain that a coyote would attempt an attack on a flying decoy. Even if it did work, flying that close to the ground would require some "Blue Angels" type of flying skills, without crashing it. Plus, I don't want to have to think about landing that drone, before I can take a shot. A drone might have the feature of hovering, when the controls are released....I'm not sure of that and/or it might be a feature that is only available in a higher end drone....again, I don't know. Using a ground vehicle, I can just let go of the controls, it'll stop and I can take the shot.

I've priced some low end drones at the $300+ mark. Whereas, the type of RC truck/car in 4x4 is going to be less than $100....unless it's purchased at an adult hobby shop. Adult hobby shop RCs can have an unlimited amount of features and costs, but there can be a lot of benefits to operating one too. So, there are trade-offs, depending on what you want to accomplish. :)(y)
I built an RC Sandrail that had a lot of features and it was a blast to operate. It was almost identical to the real one that I build that was street legal....but not as much fun to operate. :cool:
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