[varmintman]

I'm fairly good with shotguns and I have friends who are extremely good with them and there's basically no chance in the world of anybody ever hitting any sort of a surveillance drone with a shotgun.

The good news is that you can put your own drone together for around $200 - 400 USD and if you thought about it hard enough, you could probably figure a way to get one of yours to shoot down one of theirs. The youtube search starts with "FPV"...

[nascarnation]

there's basically no chance in the world of anybody ever hitting any sort of a surveillance drone with a shotgun.

What altitude do these things fly at?

Are they fairly high up and depend on strong optics?