RE: Is Driving deer is really " hunting" ?
Oh boy!! I' ll start by saying Yeah I can' t condem them for it, but it sure does leave a bad taste in my mouth. I don' t think it' s any form of hunting. You don' t need to posses much skill to crash through the woods and jump deer. If your sitters are set up wrong...Oh well go to the next batch of woods and try again. I don' t see the science in it. I think it' s also a good way for someone to get killed. Aside from that I' m not into the whole shooting deer running mock 10. The thing I hate the most about it is this is the primary reason they go nocturnal quick and nestle down in places nobody will find them. Kinda screws the guys that are on stand and have been patterning and scouting them since spring. It' s wonderful when you get to your stand an hour before sunrise because you think you' re onthe perfect trail for the buck to be making his way back to his bedding area. First light comes and you see 20 orange people crashing through the woods next to you slinging deer everywhere. If you know/think where they are bedding down, why not hunt them and try to set a stand where they will be " walking to or from that area" instead of crashing through there to speed up the process of getting that buck. To me it' s goes back to the way society has become. I don' t know about lazy (physically anyway). It is taxing on the body, but it' s certainly not hunting IMO. Seems to me like a lack of desire to put the time in and hunt the deer. Kick em out fire some lead at them running and lets gut em and head back to the lodge for some beers. Nah not for me. I may not harvest as many as these barbarians, but I' ll stick to the real deal. HUNTING!!!!