I challenge you to get 6 people together and put on a successful deer drive
NO Thanks!!
BTW your comments on driving deer prove you know nothing about driving deer successfully!!!
I do know about them Taz. I know it' s not as easy as I make it out to be. I know they can circle right behind the drivers and bed back down 50 yards behind them. I know you have to be conscious of the wind. I know you have to study their escape routes. I know you have to positon the sitters perfectly. Concealed and downwind from where they will come out. I know sometimes you can try to drive a piece of woods that you' re 100% sure a mature buck is in and he won' t come out. I know there are soft drives or bumps and there are all out hard drives. I know you have to know where they are likely to be bedded in the am or pm. You have to know their patterns just like any other form of hunting. I do know a lot about drives (succesful).
My point still remains: Why?? if hunters know all this then why? why not just set up on them instead of drive them. Someone honestly please help me understand that aspect. I honestly can' t figure out why?
You are right however Tazman and charlie P and whoever else I offended. I am WRONG for classifying it as not hunting and I sincerely apologize. It' s not up to me to make that determination. Good points about me not being perceived as a hunter because I don' t use a recurve or a tree limb with a piece of string and a carved branch as my arrow. Point well taken and again I apologize. I just still wanna know why. Maybe I' ll never know.
To me, and this is JMO, nothing deragatory intended. Any form of taking an animal when it is out of what would be their natural routine or travel, seems a bit tainted. ie: making an animal get up and move when they wouldn' t normally.
Now that I' ve read my posts, I admit I was a dink with some of the statements I made. I get a little goofy over this subject. Had 1 friend shot in the hip during a drive. Had an aquaintance get killed when he was 20 during a drive. Everything about it freaks me out, but yes it is hunting it' s just not my form of hunting. The more I learn about it the more I can understand that form of hunting. Or maybe I' ll never understand it. Good luck be safe.