if your good enough to sneak up on a bedded deer it HAD its sporting chance. the rest would be history. not like your ground pounding a pheasant or roost shooting turkeys..deer are very smart and can hear and smell you a mile away..if your good enough to sneak up on one i wouldnt look down on you for shooting! i been in the woods all my life and i dont think i can ever remember sneaking up on a bedded deer. came close..but they always get up. sometimes they will get up and look around..most the time they bolt.