When the subject of ethics comes up rules set by various game and fish commissions probably covers most of the points of ethics. Different methods of hunting that are usually set early in hunters lives and those methods usually set their ideas of ethical hunting. One of the earliest methods of deer hunting I encountered was dog hunting (some 40 years ago). My cousin had some coon dogs we hunted with and when the deer population started growing in our area some of the dogs would jump a deer and mess up the coon hunting. Some of them got knocked in the head, but then we started using the deer runners for deer dogs and it was just a bunch of neighbors and family members having a good time. Many of the members of this board would consider it unethical to deer hunt with dogs, but it was legal and was the way I was brought up. I always figured people bird hunt with dogs, hog hunt with dogs, coon hunt with dogs, etc, and that was alright. Same goes for baiting, food plots and use of other lures and other legal methods of hunting. If they are legal where you hunt and you have no personal problems with it, then go for it.