ORIGINAL: TJF
If I were driving to one of my spots to hunt and happened to come across a deer out feeding... I thought I might be able to stalk it... you are darn right I would try and have. How is this not hunting or unethical?? 
Do I drive around just looking for deer to stalk?? Nope... although it still would be hunting if I did and ethical as long as I followed all laws. It's a " hunting "oppertunity nothing more.
I probably put more time into scouting then 95% of the people on HNI. I know what a great feeling it is to scout, hunt and kill a specific buck. If youwant to passup an unplannedoppertunity... what ever floats your boat.I won't if I think I have a chance, my mood or the deer in question.
Tim
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That is why I was a little confused by peoples answers. I think people interpreted it wrong. I hunta few spots within view of the road. If I was going out hunting, pulled into my parking area and saw abuck in one ofthe fields I had been preparing all year, You better believe I am putting a stalk on. Granted it will be a few hundred yards, but I put time intomaking that area deer ready. I wasn't"RoadHunting" I was going to my spot. What am I supose to do, scare off the deer, get in my stand and hope it comes back to make it ethical? If you are truly going to that spot to hunt and would have been out in that area deer or no deer, I find nothing wrong with it. If you put on some sort of stalk or used your knowledge of deer and deer hunting to move into a position that made you make an ethicalshot that wasn't something any road hunter could take, then I say go ahead. A Stalk to me though isn't going 100 ft up the road, parking the truck and walking back down to where you saw the deer, go 15 ft. off the road and attempting the shot. If an effort was put in and you had the posibility to get busted by the deer, then I find nothing wrong with it.