Wow I was surprised to see the strong opposing opinions about this. I can't agree with driving being slob hunting. I hunt several pieces of private land usually in groups of 4 or less. During ealy season we gerally sit in stands or ground blinds and wait for the deer to come to us. Sometimes the hunters on adjacent land do the work for us and drive the deer off their property and to us waiting on ours. That's how I got my 10 pt opening day last season (a hunter on the adjacent state land shot very near our land border and 5 minutes later the buck showed up and walked to within 15 ft of my stand). Now as the season goes on deer go very nocturnal and tend to find some thick brush to lay down in here in NY. We generally still stand/blind hunt the mornings but after half a day standing in one spot and seeing nothing you do get a bit anixous to move around a bit. So we do some stalking and driving. The one property we hunt has a few areas so thick you would never be able to harvest a deer in (walking through them to drive is even near impossible) As the day wears on we usually sit one or two people and drive one or two through these areas and we've been pretty successful in occasionally poping a deer out of these areas. I personally wouldn't do a drive with tons of people for safety reasons and wouldn't do one with people I ddin't know very well and trust. We have strict rules about the posters not shooting at the deer untill they continue past you and are close to 180 degrees in the opposite direction of where drivers are walking in from. Also Drivers should not be firing at deer. Drivers should be wearing orange, and nobody I hunt with will shoot at sound (if they do I guarentee I'm never inviting them to hunt with me again).

I can understand people being annoyed by drivers when they are both on state land, I wouldn't be happy if someone came walking right past my stand either, but just think that same person may scare a deer right to you just as easily as scare one off.

It bothers me that some would call for deer driving to be outlawed, if you don't like hunting that way then don't do it, but I don't care for someone to tell me I can't hunt that waybecause you don't likethat method. I find deer drive hunting to be quitechallenging especially with small groups as we use to do them. Trying to find and push a deer in the direction you want and prevent them from looping you is far more difficult then you can imagine with such a small band of people. At the same time fun and challenging (or I guess you could even call it sporting). On the other hand sitting30-40 feet up in a tree and deer walkingpast with little chance to see or scent you in some cases I find to be perhaps less of a challenge, especially in areas where people claim to see dozens of deer a day from their stands and basicaly you can take your pick. Our areas are not so thick with deer that we are afforded that luxury of sitting in one place and seeingtons of deer consitently. Think about it how would you like it ifa bunch of drive hunters started clamoring for stand hunting to be illegal because maybe it's not as sporting because the deerwon't bust you as easy as ground hunters. Just be careful what you wish for otherwise next thing you know your way of hunting will be outlawed.