okay, so I was thinking about this... and really this makes no sense...
So, if sitting in a stand is HUNTING, but when you are sitting in your stand you are basically just WAITING for a deer to come out, right? But then it's okay to shoot it from the blind because you were waiting OUTSIDE IN A STAND/BLIND, right?
But, on the same note, if sitting in your living room, and you are waiting for a deer to come out, it is NOT OKAY to shoot it, right? Because although Hunting = Waiting, it only applies if you are waiting in your tree stand... am I understanding this correctly, because this kind of statement seems to have a repeating pattern in this thread:
It would be pretty much shooting in my eyes and not HUNTING. Go out and get into the woods closer to where they are coming out and not from the house, hunting in the house to me is not sporting, its SHOOTING. If he would have been sitting out in his blind for a couple hours and took the shot I would say OK, but he was in the house doing who knows what looks out the window and saw a deer and took off outside to get a shot. THIS IS NOT HUNTING!!
If he was sitting in his blind, which was in the woods, it was okay to shoot the deer, but since he was standing at the door to his back deck, which is just as much in the woods as his blind is, it was not okay.
And according to this theory, IMO, any hunter who sits anywhere has a "lazy keester" as well as poor hunting ethics, and isn't REALLY a hunter, they are just a "shooter"... which brings us back to the other debate of when is "hunting" really "hunting", when you are stalking? Hmmmm.... INTERESTING.