not sure if anyone here saw this, but a PA hunter was shot while putting on a deer drive yesterday and didn't make it.. https://local21news.com/news/local/...-season-pa-pennsylvania-fatality-hunting-news
agreed.. Hell, a lot of the reason i don't like rifle hunting is because of the idiots in the orange army who need to retake some hunter safety courses
Senseless, negligent and completely avoidable. Know your target and what's beyond it. While I have never participated in a drive or organized walk and hunt, bird or rabbit hunting etc. I'm sure there are general rules of thumb to be followed. What is your designated shooting window, never shoot to either side or behind your position. Probably similar and/or others. It's not a type of hunting that interests me, but I'm sure it is tradition for some so likely to not go away. I do know that if I were one of the drivers, I would want 100% or as close as possible blaze orange coverage. Full Carhart overalls plus hat. Follow common sense and it should never be needed, but my lack of faith in common sense outweighs hypotheticals.
Didn't say if he was wearing orange. The Deep South had deer drives in heavy cover. Buckshot was used due to the fleeting glimpse of deer, much like wing shooting.
details are limited but following the most basic firearm safety rules probably would have prevented this...
I've been a part of a few before and when I was a kid, my dads put on drives and helped me shoot a few deer.. however now its something that doesn't interest me,
I used to go to a Wisconsin deer camp, the group of 20 people would do drives all day. If I was a driver I would never shoot and some got pissed at me.
I was wondering if something like that happened, drivers being the shooters, not the posted shooters. "The group was approximately 100-200 yards into the drive when a buck jumped up and broke back through the line of drivers, according to the commission Two members of the hunting party reportedly shot at the buck, subsequently striking the victim, who was in the direct line of fire" I assumed drivers would not be carrying firearms, my lack of knowledge on drives, but it makes the most sense if the article was indeed stated facts. Common sense for me would be drivers do not carry firearms and posters only shoot in certain windows dictated by where they are situated to one another. If a buck gets behind the drivers, well, that's how they live another day.
