It gets pretty crazy all around us here too.I can leave the flak vest and helmet home this year. Deer and elk hunts are both on private ranches.
I've seen this kind of thing here in Saskatchewan as well. You get these idiots "pushing bush" as they call it, which for some isn't just about walking around and getting the deer to run away past another hunter whose waiting for them (which is fine), but you get people going in and firing their rifles in the trees at random hoping to scare the critters out of hiding. It is stupid, it is dangerous, it is illegal, and it doesn't even work all that well.So true. I live in WV, not far from Ohio, so one year I decided to try some public ground. Bow season was great and I thought I'd try gun hunting. I went in early about a mile carrying a tree stand. Got settled in and come daylight it sounded like WW3. Must have had a group of 50 guys come through. Sounded like they killed everything. Bullets tumbling through trees! I hunted an hour and left never to return.
I had the exact same experience in Ohio. Archery was incredible so decided to return to gun hunt. Never again!So true. I live in WV, not far from Ohio, so one year I decided to try some public ground. Bow season was great and I thought I'd try gun hunting.
When I was much younger deer drive's were what everyone did and if you knew the area well it was somewhat successful. The pushers always tried to make some racket but to randomly shoot would be a good way to at least never get invited again and possibly get a good whooping.I've seen this kind of thing here in Saskatchewan as well. You get these idiots "pushing bush" as they call it, which for some isn't just about walking around and getting the deer to run away past another hunter whose waiting for them (which is fine), but you get people going in and firing their rifles in the trees at random hoping to scare the critters out of hiding. It is stupid, it is dangerous, it is illegal, and it doesn't even work all that well.
Yep. It was a family day in the woods. Grandparents, at least 4 uncles, all the cousins. And several friends. Usually did it on "doe day"When I was much younger deer drive's were what everyone did and if you knew the area well it was somewhat successful. The pushers always tried to make some racket but to randomly shoot would be a good way to at least never get invited again and possibly get a good whooping.
I actually enjoyed the comrade of doing deer drives compared to the solidarity of the deer hunting of today.