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Tragic.

Deer drive again. I wasn't even in one and got missed by inches by others in a deer drive

drives can be very effective , but you have to know your crew and they have to know the terrain and where drivers and standers are.
I see a lot of guys go bare minimum on legal orange , I can tell you that is a bad idea , you can see 100% orange coverage farther than you can see a vest that gets all wrincked and pulled so it isn't really even making minimum.
not sure what they had or didn't have and definitely not blaming , another thing is optics , guys run higher magnification and lose their view. shooting both eyes open , not getting target focus , staying only in your zone it all plays a role and you have to be able to pass the shots that are risky.


we lined back up every clearing or logging road so that we didn't have people out in-front , it was also hard working with other families they went much to fast.

sounds like they were firing out of their zones

they can be done safe , but so can climbing into a tree stand or handling your own gun those are the biggest killers in WI even though drives happen.



it takes a level of discipline

Anytime you have likely more than a million people that hunt every year, there will be accidents. With all the folks who hunt it seems safer than driving to work.

700K in the woods opening weekend of deer in WI , one guy died self inflicted gun shot while saddle hunting in a tree.
it is very likely more people died driving to/from work that week.