I totally get the point. I never knock anyones form of hunting. Stand hunting is my primary way of doing it, and I would have to agree with you, its the laziest form of hunting, if you really think about it. I know your not knocking it either. But i do a lot of spot and stalk along with some rattling. rattling could be deemed lazy too and an easy form of hunting. Not much to it. get in an area of bucks during the rut, bash some horns and they come running, bamm ! Load one up and go home. Not much to it. Its been that easy form me at times, almost felt like I cheated.

i do both, often on the same day.i start atabout 2 or 3 pm and do some prowling around in anarea a long waysdown wind from my stand. At about 5 or 5:30 i head off to the tree stand climb up, sit and wait. Works pretty well too. Sometimes get a hog or deer while prowling around in the gullies.

There's flat unethical, and then there's just types of hunting that I, personally, wish people would reconsider. In that latter category, I include outfitted hunting and hunting methods relying heavily upon trucks and ATVs.

Outfitted hunting, it seems to me, is really a little crossgrained to what the majority of us "little guy" hunters are trying to do. Outfitters generally want to lock up land, and limit tags (thus driving up tag prices). This gets into economics, but the logical effect of outfitted hunting is to drive up prices and to limit land access to non-outfitted hunters. We can counteract this by NOT using guides. Is it really vital to hunt Canada, for instance, just to add 10 or 20 inches to the arbitrary measurement attached to the buck on your wall? Why? What percentage of the entire experience did you do, as opposed to what the outfitter did for you? Isn't the true value of a hunt what YOU did?

I also just utterly fail to get the charm of tooling around in a vehicle and calling that "hunting". Apart from someone with a real handicap, why would you ever choose to go the truck/ATV route? Does the outdoor experience mean anything? Is the smell of gasoline and the roar of an engine a key part of the experience?

Again, I just wish people would really think these questions through, and see if maybe they can sort of strip down their hunting experience to basics. Maybe lose some of the machismo that I think gives hunting a bit of a black eye, where the size of your buck or your truck serves as a wiener-enlarger, if I can get away with that expression.

Stand hunting is a valid form of ambush. Early man employed these methods, so I would have to say this is a stupid post.

I'm glad everyone is taking the time to read through the post before hitting the reply button. [&:]

I guess j_beste is just trying to live up to the motto in his signature.

I dont have time to read through 5 pages of posts. I was simply replying to your initial post. Which was stupid. What is actually hunting then to all the "hunt as I do" crowd. Do I have to strip down (so I will be freezing cold)and stalk my next whitetail while taking him with a sharpened stick. Will that be hunting?

This has already been covered in the posts if you want to take the time to read them rather than just shooting off and saying the post is stupid.

I was actually trying to make a point but it failed miserably because most people don't bother to read past the first post or even the first few lines of the first post before trying to jump in and get their point in.

I read through all the posts and see your point. I dont always have to time to read all the posts and took your initial post as your personal opinion.

Thanks for understanding. I tried to be a little too cute with myposts and should have just come out and said what I thought in the first post. Oh well, we live and learn!

It seems to me that hunting from a stand isn't really hunting at all.

come to south ga and try to stalk a deer in the woods thell hear you a half a mile away cause its so thick. befor to long you would be sitting in a tree stand.