Well now , SWOSUMike, thanks for you in put, You have shed alittle light on the subject for me.
Easy there on the fair chase thing there. To me fair chase and fair hunt is about the same thing.
Me,
I scout for my deer. I find their bedding areas. I find their feeding areas, watering holes, play ground. Some of what I use now I learned here on this website.
Bow Season ....I'll hunt from the ground 90% of the time, you know,up close and personal. I can just feel, smell and hearbetter than in a stand.
I find the trails that intersect and determine travel habits. All of this can be done in about two or three days of scouting.
As far as fair with camo...........I say cover and concealment. The deer use brush, trees, thicketts and other deers scentto conceal themselves andwe can't go naked.
Scents...... I do wash my BDU'sin a scent free detergent just as all my clothes, during bow season I use dirt, mud, cow patty, bean dust, pine sap/needles, if thats what in the area I'm in. Why introduce something not natural from that specific area?When the rut comes in, I make my own scrapes with my urine.

4 wheelers, 4 wheel drive trucksand such......don't own one. Tried callthing, not for me.
I drag my killout on my back or use a drag,(for now), alwayshave and I'm 44.
I use all I can from my kills, bones for my dogs,including some ofthe pelts
The hunt for me is this: NATURE at her best. Whether its the scouting, the smell, the wind, rain, snow, sun, theskeeters, bugs and varmitsthe sounds and smellsof everything being used to my advantage just as the deer would listen, smell and use the wind etc. also to his/her advantage.
Except them darn skeeters, they just had to be added 'cause they matter.[&:]

I have tracked a wounded deer that I made a bad shot on for about 6 hrs. at night.
At times I had to get on my hands and knees struggling to find blood, hairs ortracks.
Went back to the orginal spot and started over making circles until I found her. She was a tough one I tell you what. No dogs, hounds or help. Just me. To be down right honest about it I actually smelled her before Ifound her. Low gut shot with a bow.Clean thru.

I understand the work put inwith a dog for sport, and manners, obiedence. That is great feeling watching them demonstrate what they have been taught and do it well. Especially in front of people and in control
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As far as the rifle thing, its one shot one kill. Most of the time. You shoot twice here and don't drag something out you lose a 3" notch out of your under shirt.I gotta a few notches myself.

I use a shotgun late season when the pressure is own and get deep in the thicketts. I don't use a shotgun at a hundred yards or more, pump threefour fiverounds of buck shotwith a hope of hitting something running across a field. Thats what I see here. Pull off the side off the road get out of the truck hop across the ditch and go to blasting, with acollar locaterand radiostrapped to my side.

I sortaget the hunt that had been posted before by Cutter81. You set upfor the hunt, put people in the woods, in standsand run the deer and dogsto you, you know who is where,ok. Control is what I hear there. I might would enjoy a controled hunt don't know never been on one. So I just guess and apply what I hear, readand see.

I try to use and learnas much of nature as I can when I huntand enjoy it, kill or not.
The more I hunt the more I learn and some I learn over and over and over and still forget.

3Ddepression its thick around here to. As far as them circling back I have seen deer come out behind the dogs after they havepass thru,going right where the dogs just came from. I thought that was down right funny[8D]too slick........have also seenhim run thru afewdoes to cover his scent and watched the dogs pick up on the does and here they go, scattered.