| Archery Deer Drives | | | | at the terrain. You don't really want to pick a spot |
| Personally, I truly enjoy participating in archery | | | | that is too large to drive. A good place to drive is |
| deer drives. It's a good way to see old friends | | | | a wooded area that has a bottle neck in the |
| and meet some new ones. It also gives me a | | | | middle of it. By placing one or two sitters in the |
| good chance of getting information about new | | | | bottle neck the remaining pushers can then push |
| equipment and strategies. Some of the deer | | | | from the outside toward the middle. This has |
| drives we have are with just a few of my | | | | worked very well for me and my two sons. |
| friends and family and some with an organized | | | | After the big archery deer drive, we usually have |
| bunch of archery hunters from various clubs such | | | | a chili and hot dog lunch. This gives all of us a |
| as the Michigan Bow Hunters Association or a local | | | | chance to sit around and talk archery and archery |
| club like Bend of the River Conservation Club. | | | | hunting. I can't think of a better way to spend a |
| In order to organize a deer drive you must first | | | | day! Friends, food, hunting and good ol' BS! |
| think about safety. Setting a few rules before the | | | | Large organized archery deer drives also work |
| actual hunt can save a lot of heartache and | | | | very well. Usually ten to thirty hunters is sufficient |
| misery. First, make sure the area that you are | | | | enough to have a good deer drive in a large area |
| about to hunt is permissible. In other words get | | | | such as a State or National park or woods. |
| permission first from the landowner or make sure | | | | Normally using half the hunters to sit on one end |
| the property is open to the public. Make sure | | | | of the woods and the remaining half to do the |
| everyone that is hunting is legal and has the | | | | driving or pushing toward the sitters. Even though |
| proper license and equipment. Then decide who | | | | I have not been successful at this type of a |
| will be the pushers or walkers and who will be the | | | | drive, I have seen numerous deer and other wild |
| sitters or blockers. Then placing the sitters in | | | | life. Numerous others on the hunt have been |
| certain areas so that the pushers will always | | | | successful. That also is a thrill in its self, to see a |
| know where they (sitters) are. This is for obvious | | | | newcomer shoot a deer or even to have missed |
| reasons so no one will be shooting toward a | | | | one. They are thrilled and have learned another |
| fellow hunter. | | | | valuable lesson in archery deer drives. |
| When small groups of maybe just a few hunters | | | | Remember, share with others and keep it SAFE!!! |
| want to have a deer drive, you might take a look | | | | |