Driving deer definitly hunting. I find that most of those against drives like to sit high up in a tree out of the deers line of sight or smell. They use artificcialy produced scents to get the deer to come to them. They may also sit over piles of bait or food plots placed there with the objective of attracting deer. When a deer comes along they decide if the rack is big enough to hang on their wall. If it is a " shooter" they kill it while it is completley unaware of any danger. HOW CAN YOU CALL THIS HUNTING??? On drives, the deer knows that danger is approaching and has a chance to save its life by using it' s natural defense of leaving the area, which is what exactly would happen if a natural predator was pursuing it. Driving deer is truly " fair chase" .
Going on drives is also an enjoyable way to spend time with friends, as you generally need more than one person to do it. It is also a great way to get kids intrested in hunting as they are good and crawling through thick brush(make sure they wear blaze orange and don' t go through on an edge of the piece so they don' t get lost) Everyone in the hunting party should know who has tags for what and if anyone minds tagging a deer they may not of actually shot. (Not a problem for me, on a drive everyone is part of the hunt and any individual could have been the one that jumped the deer and/or made it go the way it did)
The groups I hunt with shoot antlerless and antlered(any size) deer as long as we have tags for them. Meat is meat. There are too many deer and a dead deer is a good deer