Deer Drives All the way in rifle season. Sitting in a stand is great during the morning and evening but durring the day you gotta get some fur flying, the Pennsylvania Push is the way to go, we push bryer patches Mountain Laurel beds anything that looks like it could hold a deer, Just Remember you cant eat the horns, In Archery season however, Always sit. I never walk around durring Archery season its sorta a bad idea, unless you are really good at Sneaking up on Deer. thats what we always do.
Ryan

Depends on how good a hunter you are.

Tree stands, when well placed and hunted under the right wind, provide often more opportunity for a skilled hunter. It takes skill of course, to know where to put them, and when to hunt them.

A deer drive will afford opportunity to almost anyone. It depends more on luck of the draw (regarding which stand you take) as much as anything else. Of course, a well planned deer drive will be much more effective than a run and beat operation.

Depends on how good a hunter you are. [&:]

Tree stands will afford an opportunity to almost anyone. Just sit in the stand and shoot. Depending on the area, you can hunt thesame stand for years without having to move it. This seems to work well for young inexperienced hunters whose parents can set everything up for them.

Deer drives, when planned correctly and hunted under the right wind, often provide more opportunity for a skilled hunter. It takes skill of course to plan the proper places to set up where the deer are most likely to move out into the open and provide a good clean shot.

P.S. - This post was made in direct response to the post above, I do realize that stand hunting can actually be work and is very effective in many areas. I don't really feel that stand hunting takes more or less skill than a properly planned deer drive. My deer drive experience has been limited to 3 or 4 at the maximum hunting draws in areas with extremely low deer populations per section where you have to coverthousands of acres in a daywith small patches of 20 or 30 acres of cover scattered around that you have to move through. I've never experienced a large deer drive with dozens of people but I'm not going to automatically dismiss someone that hunts that way. I wasn't going to reply to this thread and see where it went but I figured someone would chime in saying that hunting out of a stand is the only way to go and that only poor hunters participated in deer drives.

Oh well.

I will say that if you want a deer right now, Its a good way for fast action. The big bucks are hard to figure out when do deer drives in our area. They never go where you think they will, or never go were the rest of the deer go. When season starts winding down that is about all we do, but the rest of the time I just sit in tree stands or still hunt which is my favorite.