Ranch services
Thermal Drone Wildlife Surveys
Count what's actually on the place before you trap it, hunt it or manage it. Flown with our partner Backcountry Drones.
Why survey first
A thermal drone flown at night sees warm bodies through the dark: deer, hogs, coyotes. On a hog job it tells us how many sounders are using the place and where they bed, so the traps go in the right spot the first time. For ranch management it gives you a real deer count instead of a guess off a feeder camera.
How the work splits
| Backcountry Drones | Flies the survey, processes the thermal footage and delivers the counts. Also builds the remote trap releases and runs the field cameras on our trap line |
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| Red Creek Outdoors | Reads the results with you and plans the trapping, hunting or management that follows |
Surveys and hunts stay separate. Texas Parks and Wildlife says using a drone to hunt, drive, capture, take, count or photograph wildlife is unlawful without a TPWD permit, and drones can't be used to find wounded game. Backcountry Drones flies surveys under its TPWD Aerial Wildlife Management permit. Nobody flies a drone during one of our hunts.
More on the surveys
Survey timing, deliverables and pricing are on the Backcountry Drones site: thermal drone wildlife surveys.
Source: TPWD Law Enforcement FAQ, Drones.
Want a count?
Tell us the county and acreage and what you want to know: hogs, deer or both.