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rsp1761 said:
Never been a fan of pushing bush...aside from the lameness of it I think it is also the most likely scenario for an accident...
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Can I get an "AMEN!"

I've never seen the point of flushing deer as if they were pheasents, then wantonly hucking bullets at them. Now before anyone decides to get uppity about that, I've seen it happen time and time again. The potential for disaster is high.
 
That is why you hunt with competent hunters, not ones that get "buck Fever
' so bad that they can't hold there gun straight. I have seen normally calm guys get so excited at the SOUND of animals going through the bush; that it got them a ride to their truck and told to go home and not call again to go hunting.
 
Pushing bush is by far, the best way to hunt. If you don't think so, you haven't tried it, or haven't done it right. Sitting in a outhouse watching a bait pile for days on end is lame.
As far as getting shot at while pushing, could happen with incompetant hunters. Always good to know your hunting group, but you can't help people driving around shooting at everything.
 
So what's wrong with sitting in the outhouse watching a bait pile?? It's called multi-tasking. Sorry about your dog man.
 
I don't use the pushing bush method because I hunt alone. As far as safety concerns, it's dependent on good communication and self-discipline amongst the hunters involved.

And self-discipline amongst the hunters not involved in pushing bush with you, as in this case. The shooter and the shot hunter were in different hunting parties, so the accident wasn't caused by either or both parties pushing bush.

The primary cause will have been poor discipline by the shooter who failed to see another hunter downrange of the deer he was going to miss. Note that the reports are out now that the range to the victim was 200 yards so the shooter missed a deer at not more than 200 yards as well as failing to see another person at 200 yards who, since he was in the field of fire, was in the field of view. And it's a pretty safe bet that if the victim hadn't been wearing the high-visibility colours required by regulations, the police would have released that information by now to make the safety point to everyone else out hunting.
 
this threads pretty much jacked so......... i have been succesfull and so have my hunting partners ion many "deer drives" . now saying that i dont know how other peoples techniques are but its not like you just go tromping through the bushing hoping to flush out deer its more of a quiker moving "still hunt" and works really great atleast for me!


but crappy to hear about this hope the guy who got shot a quik recovery
 
I wish my stand had the comforts of an outhouse.

How else would you suggest I hunt deer with a bow? maybe I'll get some fellows to push bush for me!!:p

But back to topic:

Be sure of your target and beyond. This is a simple failure of the basic rules of hunting and now someone has been injured.This helps label all of us as Hatfield and Mccoy types.



Gerich said:
Pushing bush is by far, the best way to hunt. If you don't think so, you haven't tried it, or haven't done it right. Sitting in a outhouse watching a bait pile for days on end is lame.
As far as getting shot at while pushing, could happen with incompetant hunters. Always good to know your hunting group, but you can't help people driving around shooting at everything.
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Pretty tough to push bush with a group of bowhunters! too much arrogance to get anything done. I would love to see that though! Haha

Anyways, I thought we were talking about rifle hunting whitetails and getting shot at by road hunters. For a guy to get hit at 200 yards, the shooter was definately not aware of his surroundings.
 
here is what I wear..in Russia..man if I ever get shot wearing my suit..the shooter better have a good hiding spot when I get out of the hospital.

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The only thing that should get shot during a deer hunt is a deer.
There are far too many folks that only pic up their iron on the day they go to "hunt"
If you only drove yer car 2 days out of every year... :eek:

I recall a time years ago...the one and only time I hunted the Outlook pasture...I spent 45 minutes still hunting a likely bluff...then about the same on my belly waitin for the clown who was shooting into the bluff to leave...
I spent the rest of the day on top of a bald hill watching hunters chase deer around through my binos...

It was right around then I started bowhunting...alone...from a treestand...on my own private property...
 
I don't know how many of you were out Monday morning here in Sask. I'm about an hour from Momarte and visibility was only about 150yds tops due to the fog. I imagine it was the same there. It MAY have been a fluke. I thought I read 2 separate hunting parties.

I know for sure it was tough making out a deer at 100 yds if it was against the bush.
 
Obviously anytime somebody gets shot, someone did something wrong.

But having said that . . . a rifle bullet can travel a long way through brush that you can't see into, and it may have looked like a totally safe shot. You simply can't always know what's in the brush 200 yards away! That's why I always try to shoot downhill, with a big patch of grass directly behind my deer. I hunt in town, and I have no desire to have a .308 bullet traveling past my buck and into a subdivision.

'Course, it could just as easily have been somebody drunk or something. I get fed up with the amount of beer cans I find in blinds. People that drink and hunt are no better than those who drink and drive.

(Not that the shooter in question is even alleged to have been drinking.)
 
Gerich said:
Pushing bush is by far, the best way to hunt. If you don't think so, you haven't tried it, or haven't done it right. Sitting in a outhouse watching a bait pile for days on end is lame.
As far as getting shot at while pushing, could happen with incompetant hunters. Always good to know your hunting group, but you can't help people driving around shooting at everything.
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It is certainly an effective way to fill the back of the truck with lots of does and fawns with holes through their guts and busted back legs...IMHO hunting from a treestand during the rut after thoughtful scouting is the best way to hunt deer.

I suppose pushing bush with a well executed plan and experienced hunters could be a positive experience however I have yet to see this occur. Of course we are all entitled to legally hunt in a manner we see fit and pushing bush is indeed a primary method of hunting in many places.
 
rsp1761 said:
It is certainly an effective way to fill the back of the truck with lots of does and fawns with holes through their guts and busted back legs...IMHO hunting from a treestand during the rut after thoughtful scouting is the best way to hunt deer.

I suppose pushing bush with a well executed plan and experienced hunters could be a positive experience however I have yet to see this occur. Of course we are all entitled to legally hunt in a manner we see fit and pushing bush is indeed a primary method of hunting in many places.
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I've never done deer drives because I hunt alone . . . but in some places, esp. here in NB, the season is too early to truly hunt the rut.
 
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