![]() you seldom get a shot over 50 yards here, and that's one of the reasons you can hunt over feed/bait, and one of the reasons there are some places you can run dogs on deer (but as far as I know, that's not a statewide thing yet.) kinda reminds me of hunting ground birds with a pointer, and then flushing them to shoot.Įdit: browsed a few comments above, re the difference between Northern forests and Southern jungle. I know that in some group camps/hunts, where people took a whole week to hunt, guys who'd filled their tag in the first couple days would help out unsuccessful hunters by driving for them.Įthically, I don't think it's wrong. It never worked, but it did instill a sense of responsibility in me to look first, make sure it was a deer and not Bill, and then shoot.Īt the time, you could only shoot 1 buck, and doe tags were very scarce. I had a stand in a hedgerow alongside a cornfield out behind our house, and sometimes he'd make a big circuit of the meadow next to the cornfield and attempt to drive something toward me. When I was first starting out, the neighbor who helped me out was an old retired man named Bill. To the best of my knowledge, it's illegal here in my part of LA. I’ve hunted with a couple of clubs where the shooter gets The whole deer, other clubs where the meat is pooled into piles and everyone who participated gets meat. One of those don’t knock it until you’ve tried it kind of things. I realize it sounds like absolute mayhem if you have never done it and with an idiot or two it could well be but with responsible experienced hunters it is safe, efficient and effective. It’s a group effort and the joys of success are spread out amongst the group. It forms bonds and ads an element to deer hunting that many solo hunters will never know. Hunting with people you trust that are good at what they do is a real pleasure. If you think it is a lazy way to hunt I would say in some ways it is a lot more involved than hunting solo and a well orchestrated drive can be a thing of beauty.kind of like a battle plan. I’ve seen a few drives where no deer in the patch gets out alive and I’ve seen others where no one gets a shot because of poor set up or timing issues. ![]() Making sure everyone knows the plan is a must. Giving the standers plenty of time to get into position is a must. Knowing the lay of the land and where deer will go is critical to successs. I understand that If you are living where shotgunning deer with buckshot is not legal or the norm, some of this is not going to make sense to you. ![]() Not unusual for a guy to drop two as they pass. ![]() Quite often deer will cut back and drivers will get shots as well as deer try to run by them. Drivers are wearing plenty of orange and making enough noise to where their general location is detectable by standers. Deer are shot as they run past the stander with knowledge of where the next closest standers are located. The standers don’t shoot towards the drivers, at least they shouldn’t. ![]()
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