Six or eight archers that have hunted together for a seasonor two will avoid most of this and have better success thandriving with a large party. The small group may have moredeer sneak back or go through unguarded positions on theshooting line. So what? A man can be only in one place and,with a small group, he has more opportunity to pick the placehe wants. A small group will complete a drive and be on theway to another before a large group can gather the stragglersand put an end to the post mortems on "how I flubbed mychance that time."
Most Wisconsin resorts now cater to bow hunters, but it wasnot always thus. Resort owners and residents of the deer coun-ties were, at first, definitely against bow hunting. "Too manydeer running around with arrows in them." Their pet peevewas "road" hunting—archers cruising slowly up and down theroads in their cars looking for deer to shoot at. These hunterswere killing or wounding their roadside deer, and roadsidedeer along with musky fishing are the main tourist attractionsin the north country.
