The Great Miami River Paddle Trail in southwest Ohio starts in Indian Lake and flows southeast where it joins the Ohio (Great) River. I have said it before tradition and heritage are what hunting is, you people who are stepping up on your pedestal need to look back at the way the Indians hunted, particularly how they hunted buffalo.The "Buckeye State," home to the Ohio Buckeye tree, is as unique as its nickname. We recovered every deer we hit on the 3 drives we made at our place, that is because we have been doing the drives for over 30 years with the same families and same guys (although the old guys don't do much walkin anymore!). But when the hunting slows down mid week or in our case all week you need to change strategies. We sit on stand for 12-14 hours opening day, never leaving my stand and it has paid off for me the last 6 years with 2 bucks over 140" and 6 bucks total. These guys had it perfected and he has passed that on to me and my brother.
My dad hunted the early 70's when seeing 5 deer in a week on stand was considered a successful hunt. I grew up on deer drives, back in the 80's it was something to see more than 5 deer in a day. I will start a new thread for all of the soapbox hunters so they can tell me how ethical and fair it is to sit in a tree and shoot deer at 100+ yards. Again for those of you who haven't read the thread, this is for those who put on safe and successful drives. Stick with a recurve if you want to even the odds! Deer are running for their lives before during and after gun season, but especially around 7:30 opening morning. You people kill me, you are in the woods with a shotgun, or muzzleloader and you have the balls to say that drives are unfair. the deer ran less than that and piled up. I shot an 8 point off of a drive on Thursday, yes he was walking very fast and I double lunged him at 60 yards. I learned that no matter what to trust your gut. I blame myself for getting in on the drive but I drove all the way down to meet an old college buddy and to have a little fun. If a deer has got the burners on, we let it go like trap said. The answer is enforcement of the laws already on the books.Īgain.here we go with the soap box ****! The drives we put on are usually long drives and the deer are not running hard, most of the time they are walking. How would you word it? If more then one hunter was hunting a property and left his stand for any reason would he be driving? If you wounded a deer and got help trying to recover it would you be driving? Most of the complaints I've read about drives here are that they are doing things already illegal (trespassing, road hunting, tagging violations). Somethings to think about for those that want to make drives illegal. A neighbor kid stand hunting on his own wounded a large buck on Friday, we spent sometime today helping him look for it(never found it). A big advantage is there are several sets of eyes available to look for signs of hits and to track wounded game.
We wounded no deer, had 5 or 6 clean misses. BTW I just added up we fired 15 shots and harvested 7 deer this week. All our ground is contiguous and is around 1500 acres owned by 10 different people, how many of you stand hunters can get permission (free not leased) for that much land? Half the guys that hunt with us use muzzleloaders. We have permission for all the land we hunt. We work hard to insure a safe, successful and fun hunt. I resent the implication that I am not ethical, not knowledgeable of my game or am a lazy hunter because I prefer to use this legal hunting method.
Unlike the guy in camo carrying a bow and climber and sneaking into his neighbor property. One thing about a drive it tends to be public, a bunch of guys in orange carrying guns gets noticed. The purpose was NOT to discuss your views or the senior gun season, so if ya doan mind.butt out!
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The purpose of this thread was to give information to guys about how to be safe while doing a drive. You have never been on a deer drive yet you are the first one to say they should be outlawed.:tsk: I am all for opinions and respect a persons views, but if you have never been on a drive you should probably stay out of this thread. Coonie, I totally disagree with just about everything ya just said. Working the same drive year after year with the same people is one of the most rewarding and safest ways to put on drives. Bmiller hit on an important part of a drive. I have been part of deer drives since I was 7 years old and we have never had a close call either. I believe it should be incorporated into the hunter's ed classes so people are at least tuned in to the basic of a deer drive. My computer is on the fritz! I think it is my video card that is why I didn't finish the story.ĭeer drives are a HUGE part of Ohio deer hunting and to outlaw them or suggest they be outlawed is insane.
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