Originally Posted by
deerchump
Do you feel the same way about hunters driving deer on public land but without using dogs? Driving deer would also disrupt the deer in a stand hunter's area.
Hunters who run dogs or drive deer need to be aware of other hunters, but how are they supposed to know where you are? If they pull into the parking lot of a forest preserve and see one truck, should they go somewhere else since there is another hunter SOMEWHERE in the area?
Also, running dogs and driving deer get deer up and moving. So they are actually helping your hunt by increasing the odds of a deer coming through your area!
Yeah, I kinda do feel the same way. It's almost worse, actually. The human drivers are louder than the dogs!!
It's one thing when there might be only a couple of other people hunting that day, as evidenced by parked vehicles, but on a Saturday in Virginia, that's never the case.
They DO get more deer up and moving, but not within their normal patterns or along their normal routes.