Well I will tell you there is a ton of work to drive hunting, there is actually far more scouting to be done to put on successful drives than there is in sitting in a stand.

When you scout to sit in a stand you are scouting a deers normal travel routes, I challenge any stand hunter to find me one single escape route! I will bet money 9 out of ten times a stand hunter will not find a single escape route. Deer use totally different routes to escape than they do going to and from bed and food.

I used to drive hunt, but I am not a young man anymore and could not keep up the pace. Unlike with stand hunting where you scout and find a single spot where deer are moving through, when drive hunting, first you must know where they bed, second you have to know if I drive from the east and the wind is blowing out of the west, which way will the deer move and on which escape corridor will they use this time.

I stand hunt exclusively now, but I will tell you that it would take a book to tell you how much work is needed to successfully drive deer. Anyone can drive deer, but to set up standers to where they can kill deer is an art and beleive it or not I/we have successfully killed particular bucks that we scouted out pre-season driving, not every deer killed in a drive is luck of the draw, I/we have let dinks go right by knowing that a big one would be coming through soon.