RE: Drive Hunting
 

Clueless aren' t you?

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Once again, a whole lot easier to kill a deer with a 4 month season and 40yd range, than a 1 week season with a hundred yard range. Much, much, easier.

RE: Drive Hunting
 

On second thought, sa, with all your bitterness towards any other types of hunting, perhaps you should take the man up on his offer for a week' s hunting, ya may learn a thing or two, at least enough to know it' s no great feat to kill a deer over a 4 month season. Just a suggestion.
[&:]

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Well if you like calling out people for not knowing enough about the other guy............then here you go . South Carolina has a 2 week Archery season and 19 weeks of gun season. Everyone laughed at me for bowhunting yet I killed a deer (and passed on many) when some rifle hunter' s didn' t even get a shot all season .

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Why don' t you check your local deer kill numbers for your state and see whether there are more deer killed in that 4 month bow season or that one week deer season. If bowhunting is so much easier why does every conservation department in the country give hunters several times more time in which to kill a deer with a bow than they do with a gun. Becuase it is more difficult. I see 100 deer a year that I could kill with a gun that I never get shots at with a bow. I would bet you that in every state in the nation there are more deer killed during gun seaon than there is in bow season. Also, why don' t you check out the percentages of hunters that take deer with a bow compared to the percentages of hunters that take deer with a gun and then report back to us all of your findings.;)

It' s no great feat to kill one with a gun either. I let my wife practice with my muzzle loader one afternoon. The next day I took her and she killed a deer. She had never been hunting before.

I don' t have bitterness towards other types of hunting. I have just been there and done all that and I think gun hunting and especially drive hunting is to easy. I prefer more of a challenge and that challenge is bowhunting. I still muzzleload occaisionally, just not very often.

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Ahh, now your getting the point. Ya can' t classify everything based on your own state, your own experience, you' re own way of doing things. That' s my whole point. Thanks for helping me make it. What' s " more challenging" for you, may not be for the other guy.
Here' s my homework asignment sa. ;)
The last year I could find stats without digging too much in my home state.
1996
52000 bowhunters
92000 gun hunters

18854 deer killed during the bow season(Not sure how many total days)
10035 deer killed during the 6 day firearm season
Hmmm... 36% success for bowhunters, 11% success for gun hunters....

I never said it' s not easier to kill a deer with a gun during any given day, nor did I say it' s easier to get a deer with bow in any given state. I used states with the more common lengthy bowseason and a brief, one week firearm season. Just an example. I happen to share the thought that bowhunting is more rewarding, I doubt I' ll even dust off the guns this year, but who knows?

I just don' t see how you can fail to realize the fact that it very well may be much more difficult to kill a deer in an area like those mentioned above, say, vast prarie, low deer numbers, etc, vs bowhunting in the East or Southeast where deer are as common as Democrats in hell.
Ya just have to realize it may be much more of a challenge to kill a deer for these guys driving in their area, as it is for you to kill one with your bow in your state. Sure, driving would make things a lot quicker and easier in your state, as would it in mine, but last I checked, some of the folks on this thread ain' t from either of those states.
The fella hutning where there' s .8 deer per square mile in Northern Canada has a more difficult time tagging out, driving or not. No getting around that.

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Here are some numbers for you.

In Arkansas we have a 5 month bowseason. There were 9,488 deer killed in those five months with a combination of bows and crossbows. There were 115,115 deer killed by modern guns in roughly 3 weeks of season. I can see what you mean that gun hunting is a lot tougher[:o][&:][&:]

Here' s the link if you want to verify the numbers:

http://www.agfc.com/education/deer_h...a/2001-02.html

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Ahh, now you' re getting the point, thanks for helping me make it. Ya can' t base everything on your home state, you' re particular methods, how you were taught.
Sure, drive hunting would make the season too quick, and too easy in your state, and mine as well, but there' s no getting around the fact that the fella hunting Northern Canada with deer densities at .8 per square mile has a lot more difficulty filling a tag, driving, or no driving, than someone bowhunting in the East or Southeast where deer are as common as Democrats in hell.
I can imagine looking over 5 square miles of bush and thinking we have to start driving, and MAYBE there' s a mature buck somewhere in there is a lot more daunting than you or I heading to our woodlot with 30-40 deer per square mile.
Which of those is more challenging?
Oh, and here' s my homewoprk assignment. ;)

1996 New Jersey(last year they posted details on theirr site)
52000 bowhunters
92000 gun hunters

18854 deer killed during bow season
10035 deer killed during 6 day firearm season

Hmmm....bowhunters had 36% success, gun hunters had 11% success....
Sounds to me it' s a lot eeasier to slap a tag on one during the approximately 3 month bow season.

Your state may vary. [;)

RE: Drive Hunting
 

And thank you for helping me make my point.

If the deer densities are that low up there how tuff do you think the bowhunting would be? Exactly! Pretty damn. That' s why they drive because bowhunting is too tuff;)

RE: Drive Hunting
 

Is that the best you could find info from 1996? You got any links to back up your info?