Here's my take on it. First off, I get tired of people saying something is not a sport or not sporting simply because they don'tparticularly hunt that way. To me, if it's legal then go for it. If I don't particularly care to do it then fine but I'm not gonna act like I'm better and say your methods of hunting aren't a sport simply because I don't do it. I can find countless guys who can set up and execute a good drive and hunt circles around those people who say that they aren't sportsman. Lonewolf, for you to say there isn't sport in it is rediculous.It's clearly evident that you have either a) neverbeen involved in a deer drive in your entire life or b) have been involved in a drive that consisted of three people who barely know what a tree looks like running through the woods yellingat each other. A REAL deer drive usually requires a vast knowledge of the terrain as well as the local deer population. You have to know where deer are bedded, where they feed, how they travel and where to place the other hunters so that they are in the correct position in relation to these other factors.

Based on your statement a guy who hunts the same stump for the past ten years simply because he's to over weight to make it any further from his car is more sporting than the hunter who has hunted the same mountains for fourty years, knows every stick and twig like the back of his hand, taken a deer every year for the last 25 years, could propabaly tell you every bedding area and trail on this land and uses this knowledge to put on a well executed successful drive.

Last time I checked the only REAL weapon we are all born with is our brain. If you want to use it to study the area and find a well placed area for a tree stand then that's great. I do it every year all archery season long. Now, if I want to take knowledge of my hunting land handed down from generation to generation to put on a drive come rifle season then who are you to say it isn't sporting.

We are all hunters who need to support each other no matter how we choose to do it (legally). We have enough trouble with groups like peta attacking us that I never understood the need for some hunters to put themselves above others simply because they don't agree with their methods.