Ethical or not?
For the past few nights, several does and small bucks have been coming in front of my house to eat on acorns. These deer are not pets to me, these are the same deer that I see come out into a food plot every night when I hunt it.
Now would you think it was ethical to put a stand up (no kidding) 40 yards from my front porch where these deer alwayscross on the way to the oak trees. The tree they end up feeding under is only17 yards from my bedroom window (I ranged it). During the rut last year I sat in my kitchen window as two different 140 inch deer fed and chased does under these trees.
I could sit up on the food plot that they cross first, but this is a gamble, as it is hard to get into and hid without being spotted and they often bust out of the bedding area.