The late part of gun season we do some drives and rarely do I see a deer running full steam. From my experience they don't generally do that unless pushed very hard or they are crossing fairly open ground. Most of the deer I see and all of the ones shot this past seasonhave been slipping out, they may run or bound a little but then they stop or slow to afast walkand scan ahead or listen then start moving again. Just like any other style of hunting, you set up where you anticipate getting a good/closeshot on the deer and take the best shot presented, sometimes there isn't any shot presented. I'm sure there are guys that don't do it that way, or shoot at anyting moving, and have questionable ethics / practices. But it definitely is not everyone that does deer drives.

As far as it is not being challenging for bucks or any deer for that matter, I guess you are right to a point but realistically it is no more or less challenging than killing deer from a stand or blind or most other methods, if you have some decent land to hunt and a reasonably healthy deer herd itshouldn't be a question ofif you are going to kill a deer, it should be more like when and how many and what kind, it ain't rocket science,with all of the advantages we as hunters have it isn't that challenging to begin with unless you strictly pursue big, mature bucks and I would say statistically speaking drives probably produce less trophy bucks than anyother method mentioned and based on that opinion I would say that makes it more challenging to kill a big buck with a drive(their too smart for the most part). That is just a guessbased onwhat I have seen and my experiences.

As far as wounding deer or taking shots that shouldn't be taken, doesn't that happen in every season with every weapon? Thathas more to do with the shooter than his chosen method/tactic of hunting. How many wounded deer threads will we see this upcoming season in the Bowhunting Forum?