ORIGINAL: uncle matt
ORIGINAL: MinnFinn
I personally don't like the idea of "driving" deer towards someone to have them hopefully wait until the deer pass them before shooting. Otherwise, you're talking about a potentially dangerous situation.
My brother and my hunting buddy used to do this with guys through cornfields no less. Both at different times had members of their party wounded in one of the drives. I'd never drive them through corn with people posted at the end who'd possibly shoot into or down corn rows. That's crazy.
Also, deer on the run aren't the ideal shot to take. Higher chance of gut shot or quartering toward, whichhave a low probability of finding.
I guess if you know and trust the people who you're hunting with and have strick rules of who will be shooters and at when they can and cannot shoot, it's okay. I'd rather stand on the ground and/or slow walk/stop/look listen/stalk personally.
Your brother and your hunting buddy are doing these drives where people got "wounded" (I assume shot) with idiots.
But your post starts out not making sense. If a deer is driven
towards you, then
passes you and
then you shoot, then the driver(s) would be
behind you.
You never shoot in the direction someone may be (down or into the rows). Push the deer out of the corn and set up to shoot across the ends of the rows, not "down or into" the rows.
Wellyou said they were only wounded - fortunately no was killed.
I never said I hunted this way. These guys obviously went hunting at different times with people they shouldn't have. I agree, no one should ever shot into the direction the drivers are coming from. I also think the idea of shooting a running deer, especially ones that are running away is not a good practice. Even"shooting across the ends of the rows" as yousay is not safeimo.With adrenaline pumping a deer poops out, what if one of the outside drivers gets farther ahead and you don't see them? It's too risky for me.These and many other reasons I don't hunt deer with others and I don't take part in deer drives.