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As a youngster I got caught up in deer drives. It was great at the time but as I became older I thought it was a bit unsafe and rather just sit them out. Now I like to do a 1 man drive toward someone sitting that hasn't had any luck. Deer drives are just another way to put one down. Not my thing now but "it is what it is"

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On 12/31/2021 at 6:40 PM, First-light said:

My neighbor to my north is huge on QDM. Preaches it all the time. I get it and do my part. They start driving deer at 9-9:30 opening morning. No wonder we fill the deer pole so early on opening day! lol

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Not to derail..do you have plans for building that deer pole..

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On 12/23/2021 at 7:08 PM, Nomad said:

I think my hip, problems today can be traced to,our drives in the 90s . Sit till,9 drive till 3, then sit again .

Thing Was the drives required walking miles often through plowed up muddy farm fields , pounds of mud on each boot ,and many times I’d stop to try and pull my foot free, which I’d feel in the hip,joint .

Drives were way more fun then sitting in a tree , we knew where they’d run,the action was outstanding .

My absolute favorite buck is a litlle 7 pt my 14 y/o daughter pushed out of ditch and I dropped on a full out run . 

I remember that story from the past yr :) 

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One of my best friends, who passed away a few years ago, was really into drives.  I went on a few with him where multiple deer were killed, but I was not at all comfortable hunting like that.  
 

Had it not been for a “near miss” that I experienced, a few years prior, I would have felt different about them, I suppose.
 

 If you ever get the chance to feel a 12 gauge shotgun slug pass by your face, before you hear the gun go off, and you still like to do deer drives, then you are a lot braver than I am. 
 

These days, I prefer to hunt in the Adirondack mountains, and far from all others.   On the flat lands around home, where there might be other hunters around, I prefer to be hunting from a position that is 4 to 10 feet above ground level, and safely out of the cross fire:

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Two of the three deer in our freezer, from last year, and soon to be one from yesterday, were taken from this super comfortable perch, 9 feet up.  The other was taken near the top of a very remote Adirondack ridge, while I was seated in an extremely  comfortable tree hammock chair.  
 

The older I get, the more comfortable I like to be while hunting, and there is no substitute for a comfortable chair.  I spent $ 8, at a barn sale up in Alex bay last summer, on the fancy, padded, adjustable office chair that I shot three off of (from the blind in the picture up above).  

 

 

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I did some deer drives when I first started hunting. It was fun. Then I started getting the idea that I wanted the deer that I get to be a little more "one-on-one". I wanted the success or failure to be mine alone, based on only my actions and efforts and skills instead of a gang-thing. I guess we all have our little quirks about how we approach hunting and what we need to have satisfied in our hunting results. But anyway, deer drives became a thing of the past for me, but I'll bet they are still fun for those that do them.

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On 1/2/2022 at 5:49 AM, wolc123 said:

One of my best friends, who passed away a few years ago, was really into drives.  I went on a few with him where multiple deer were killed, but I was not at all comfortable hunting like that.  
 

Had it not been for a “near miss” that I experienced, a few years prior, I would have felt different about them, I suppose.
 

 If you ever get the chance to feel a 12 gauge shotgun slug pass by your face, before you hear the gun go off, and you still like to do deer drives, then you are a lot braver than I am. 
 

These days, I prefer to hunt in the Adirondack mountains, and far from all others.   On the flat lands around home, where there might be other hunters around, I prefer to be hunting from a position that is 4 to 10 feet above ground level, and safely out of the cross fire:

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Two of the three deer in our freezer, from last year, and soon to be one from yesterday, were taken from this super comfortable perch, 9 feet up.  The other was taken near the top of a very remote Adirondack ridge, while I was seated in an extremely  comfortable tree hammock chair.  
 

The older I get, the more comfortable I like to be while hunting, and there is no substitute for a comfortable chair.  I spent $ 8, at a barn sale up in Alex bay last summer, on the fancy, padded, adjustable office chair that I shot three off of (from the blind in the picture up above).  

 

 

You have any deer pics to share?

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25 minutes ago, Lawdwaz said:

You have any deer pics to share?

Some of us are afraid to post pictures of our deer, and others (like me) are afraid of deer drives. 
 

You can find a few photos, of the only deer that I killed so far this year, on the 2022 “live” thread in the deer hunting section.  
 

I’d throw up a few more photos of it, and a few from last year here, but I don’t want to offend some of our thinner-skinned brethren. 

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15 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

Some of us are afraid to post pictures of our deer, and others (like me) are afraid of deer drives. 
 

You can find a few photos, of the only deer that I killed so far this year, on the 2022 “live” thread in the deer hunting section.  
 

I’d throw up a few more photos of it, and a few from last year here, but I don’t want to offend some of our thinner-skinned brethren. 

You got a deer?

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16 minutes ago, wolc123 said:

Some of us are afraid to post pictures of our deer, and others (like me) are afraid of deer drives. 
 

You can find a few photos, of the only deer that I killed so far this year, on the 2022 “live” thread in the deer hunting section.  
 

I’d throw up a few more photos of it, and a few from last year here, but I don’t want to offend some of our thinner-skinned brethren. 

Please save your avatar space for a striped bass pic with me this spring.

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