I am both a rifle hunter and a bow hunter. I am more a rifle hunter then anything. And what you described on your post is exactly how my family and I hunt. We have the house on stilts and our stands are heated also. We have swival chairs to. There is really no advantage to us except we can stay in our stands as long as we want and thats about it. We dont pull anymore deer out of the woods then anybody else. in fact most of the deer we have taken have been on the drives not sitting in our stands. I dont think hunting out of a stand is a bad thing unless you bait the deer. Then I would have to agree with you.