Driving deer to Bow Hunter

[deadeye]

Anyone out there attempt to drive deer to a bow hunter?  After shooting the doe last Wednesday, I attempted to drive, bump, chase, nudge or corral deer to my son.  For the record, I have a bow license so we were party hunting).  For our first attempt he was in a stand in the middle of the woods.  I circled him following swamp edges and stayed 150 to 300 yards away.  Neither I nor my son saw anything.  I did see lots of older beds.  On our second attempt, he stood on a trail and I pushed through what is a know bedding area.  My son saw one deer, it stopped at 40 yards looked back at me and the went out to an island and didn't present a shot.  I never saw it.  For our last attempt he went to a stand that deer tend to pass by when chased from various nearby woods and ridges.  I had two hours to wonder around so I took my time.  I crossed a small swamp and bumped two deer while walking towards a point (normally the deer exit this point and cross into the woods where my son was in a stand).  These two exited the point and went the opposite way across a small bay and then back into the woods.  Foiled again.   Later I did manage to chase a deer to him.  It was a nubbin buck that stopped 5 feet from his stand.  Nice to see but nothing he wanted to shoot.   I had a great time exploring places I don't get to very often.  We are making plans for our next attempt.     

[The General]

I'm all for this type of hunting.  I'd say get more bow hunters to cover more area.  I do have one question.  Is it okay to just have a bow lic. or do you have to actually be carrying a bow while walking?  The reason I ask is I'm just curious if you could be walking with a gun to maybe shoot a pheasant if one got up.

[deadeye]

General, good point.  I doubt you would need to carry a bow but I'm sure you could carry a shotgun while hunting grouse.

[corny13]

I have some friends that do a deer drive on the Missouri river bottoms every December.  They have had success, place the shooters in stands a ways from the bedding area to they usually aren't running by the time they get to bow hunters.