I believe that what is illegal is illegal and what I think is wrong . . . I think is wrong but the next guy might think is OK. Come on! You don't have to think about this subject very long to find differences between how people think about hunting!!! The notion that "if I think it is wrong, by golly it is wrong!" doesn't cut it.

I happen to not like the idea of feeding deer that I plan to hunt. I define this pretty broadly. I hunt on someone else's land. I suggested building a stand in a specific location where the brush is too high to hunt because the deer are out of sight in the bush. He responded positivelyto this idea and added, lets make it tall enough to put a feeder under it. My interest went away: I don't want to hunt somewhere that I have artificially altered the deer patterns. I want to discover the deer behavior and trails and use this to hunt the deer . . . I don't want to trick the deer or modify their behavior to hunt them. My dislike of feeding deer includes any mechanical feeders, dumping corn on the ground in a specific area, planting crops for the purpose of attracting/feeding deer. Others certainly do this! Devices are sold for this purpose by Cabela's and Bass Pro Shop and are advertised in the hunting magazines. I see articles about planting food plots for deer.

It may well be that others have a similar objection to hunting with a high power centerfire rifle with a scope, as I hunt. The playing field is not level when I use such an advanced weapon. I should constrain my weapon to a bow and arrow or a muzzle loader and use them responsibly, only shooting when my target practice leads me to believe I can have high confidence in making a mortal shot. I understand the content and rationale of this argument. To such people, it may be wrong to hunt with the weapon I choose to use.

So . . . I don't know many hunting practices that are legal but which could be asserted as objectively and universally "wrong." Just my $0.02