Budbowhunter, you may be onto something. I know Michigan where I'm originally from the season is 2 weeks but at peak rut. I agree the gun enhusiasts have a right to hunt. I opened a can of worms, then got pissed when I was attacked for getting irate over a mere 30 or so slob hunters last weekend. I know they feel pressure to get their deer. I just don't understand people that take hail mary shots at running deer. If you want to drive hunt and can get a shot on a standing deer, or walking even. Great! Even a runniing deer at close range is a fairly good shot. But what I saw was 200 yard shots where they emptied the magazine and fumbled to reload for the next wave. I don't advocate banning drives. But driving deer hard seems counterproductive to getting a decent shot on a deer. When pushed slow they tend to stand to see what it is they hear, and there they offer a good shot. As far as all this about the anti's love all this. They see these massive drives and the results too so I'm not aiding them in pointing out that we can pressure these type of hunters to at least be sane. We don't hae large timber areas here, so deer have to travel a long ways to get to the next cover. These guys didn't have permission and continued to drive when challenged because I couldn't stop all of them. I'm not a politically correct type of guy. If I think it needs to be said I'll say it. Comes from 18 years in the Air Force I guess. I just regre that my son witnesses all this when it's totally contrary to what I try to teach him. If they could hunt during a part of the rut there would probably be less drives like this because the deer would move during the day on their own. But here these drives have becaome tradition and from what I have seen they are basically done the same way, get them running across an open field then try to hit them. Maybe it's a regional thing like a dialect in a language. I actually think with one full gun season a lot more deer would be taken. I know they feel resentment because rut is reserved for bow hunters.

THWACK!