RE: Hunting on the way to your Stand.
Here's a little story that might make you want to hunt on your way in. Last year on my way to my spot, I missed the chance of a lifetime. While I'm walking down the trail I always have an arrow knocked and ready to shoot. Well as I'm rounding a corner I see movement to my left and stop dead in my tracks. No more than 10 yards to my left I see antlers coming up from a small brook (hidden by some brush). I raise my bow to get ready for the shot, just as the buck steps into a perfect shooting lane, what happens........ I was so excited about being out there I forgot to knock an arrow. I slowly crouched down and knocked an arrow, and when I got up he was out of sight. Scanned the area thinking maybe he bedded down, but never saw him. Would have been my first deer, and I'm still trying for my first. So point being...be prepaired. Once your on your way in, consider yourself hunting....unless it's not legal hunting hours.