I prefer to stand hunt. Where I hunt it typically is so noisy in the later season it makes more sense to ambush the deer from above than to walk around.

Being in a stand vs a guy still hunting this year netted me the old 6 pt I shot. He jumped it, and missed it. Fifteen minutes later it trotted right to me and died.

Waiting in a place that is between bedding areas and food paid off. Two bucks died by my hand as they escaped from other hunters that jumped them got nothing in the past two years. I followed the tracks of my buck last year back to where he had been feeding on someone's illegal corn pile and found where he had been spooked out of.

Some years it can be quiet, and the guys who still hunt can have an advantage. The last two years stand hunters had the advantage with it being so loud to move around.