Originally Posted by clydeNY

Sounds like public land all right. It can make for hard hunting. When I hunted on public land as a kid, people would shoot at anything. There was no consideration of whether it was a buck, doe, fawn...it was strictly an "If it's brown, it's down" type scenario. If someone whacked a button buck, they would react as if it were a 10pt. Not the kind of hunting scene I enjoy very much.

My suggestion would be, no joke, find a hunting buddy with land or get in on some kind of lease. Join the local sportsmans' club and meet some people. Perhaps you've already tried this.

As far as drives go, I will only participate if it's highly organized and on private land. Even then I'm not crazy about them.