RE: Deer Drives NJ
I hunt in a club in Ocean County we have been around since the 40s. We hunt with about 25 guys and usually manage between 12 to 16 deer per year. My attraction to deer drives is it's FUN. Fun to hunt with your buds, fun when a kid gets his first deer, fun when a senior member (in his 70s) shoots a large 8 pointer, fun because I love to be outdoors, fun to spend the week at the camp away from work. But it is also fun because I spend every Friday and Saturday, 2 weeks during bow season, early muzzle loader season, a week in Maine the rest of muzzleloader season and winter bow in a TREE STAND. Most of the guys in my club are bow hunters and live in the area. We are respectful of other hunter we don't argue with pot hunters over who killed the deer (you ask the several hunters who killed deer in our drives over the years they know who we are we even help them drag them out). I know we are not the exception either. We donate time to clean the WMAs and to some private preserves we even have the Boy Scouts use our building. I believe my club acts responsibly as do most clubs in my area. In the last 5 years of driving deer 30 days 240 drives(averaged out) I can only recall seeing 2 pot hunter in the woods. I don't believe that we are as big a problem to other hunters in the woods that eveyone is led to believe. Just my 2 cents. STRENGHT IN UNITY