Well, okay, Nick, but I beg to differ. It still takes skill to stay motionless long enough to set up your shot and take it... and the point is 99.9% of the shots he has taken at deer have been from a blind or stand, 3 times in 14 years has he shot from the porch.

Ok the way I see it is a timing issue, the mans spends the bulk hunting a blind/stand where he's put forth the effort and scouted obviously to choose the spot. B/C he happens to live amongest his area and on the odd occasion might get an opportunity during season is just timing not preference! I have to say I loath Road Hunters (here it is perfectly legal, as long as you don't shoot along or across them), that being said a number of years ago I was moving positions and lucked upon a damn fine buck chasing a girlfriend. I made a quick trot down a small willow run and I dropped the fella...now at the time I was in my truck and spotted him chasing from it. I will make no bones about it was pure and simple luck(right place right time), while the large pasture I was hunting is awesome country and it could happen at anytime, the fact it did on that day was misnomer and really had little to do with my doing except knowing where to run and putting a good shot on the deer. I will equally freely admit that it might not have been the best story of my hunting career but in the same token I would do it again if it was legit without question. I have very few hunts that luck is the main component so when it happens I will gladly stare the devil in the eye and try to make it count! To me this is no different than a hunter going for a stroll on a bush road and happening across a deer, elk, moose or bear...right place, right time! Go out buy yourself a lotto ticket b/c todays was your lucky day...IMHO. For that 1 lucky harvest I have way more blood, sweat and tears hunts than I care to recount! I would hazard a guess this gentleman or any other hunter would easily agree that on those rare occasion of just happening upon a xxxx...why not!

I am a bit fanatical about hunting, it is my passion but I also realize it very much is a sport of within...meaning you make and take what you want out of it. So as long as it is legal and your happy within yourself ALL THE POWER TO YEAH!!!

For me,I look at like hockey(which I play)?Every now and then a puck will end up right in front of me at the net ready to just knock it in.Easy garbage goal but at the end of the game you got a goal,not a garbage goal. I'm not going to knock it away and say nope to easy.As long as you did it legally.For myself it would be a deer no matter how you looked at it at the end of the day.I'm not dissagreeing with anybody here so don't get at me.I love to get out in the woods with nature and work for my hunt.Sometimes though (such as a hockey goal) you get lucky as hell and ones just their for you.

Again thats my personal believe and i'm sure others will look at it completly different and don't dissagree with anybody so you guys be easy on me i'm new here.I don't need to tick anybody off I need freinds.
For what its worth I think everybody can look back at the thread and say well it was a interesting and fun thread.
JE

I'm gonna throw my two cents in here...
I got my first deer with a bow by shooting it from my back door. I was proud to get it but when I think about it now, I'm a little ashamed. I don't really consider it hunting now and I haven't done it since. HOWEVER, if I looked out and seen a monster buck I know I would try to shoot it. Is it right? Well, that's just a matter of opinion. If it's legal then do it. Only you can decide if it's right or wrong.
And in comparison... What's the difference if you pay someone a $1000 to hunt on a ranch. They drive you out to a 10 x 10 treehouse so that you can hunt over a large field where they spread feed out all the time. Is that hunting? You did no scouting, patterning etc. It's pure luck that your buck came out to feed and you were a good enough shot to shoot it.
No one on this website should judge anyone else as long as each person is hunting legal....

Difference is road hunters ruin it for the guys who are out there waiting in the field to take a deer. If your in the comfort of your own yard you aren't disturbing anyone elses hunting so i don't see the problem.

You all will flip over this.I visited my cousin a couple weeks ago in Virginia during rifle season.Now his cabin is right smack in the middle of his woods.About 60 acres I believe.He has always shot deer right out of the window,and I have seen it done.Now these deer were just walking through the woods on a deer trail 50-100 yards from cabin.

So I suppose he was hunting,and I never really gave him much grief because he has a hard time getting around.

But this year while visiting,he is inside watching tv,and I am standing inside the cabin talking and I hear BING BONG BING BONG.He goes over to the window and,yep theres a deer.He had a wireless motion sensor setup on the trail and the reciever was in the cabin.Sounded like when you walk into radio shack,BING BONG..The great white hunter,Not...

I have had so many chances to shoot deer out of my back deck it is not even funny. I have deer about 50 yards off of my back deck every night. I see no sportsmanship in getting up from watching the football game seeing a big buck in the back yard, going and getting my bow or gun and shooting it. This year and last I could have shot a much bigger deer than I did. Last year I had a 140" 10 pointer back there regurally and this year a 150" 10 pointer. 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!!

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:

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.

Enough already! Go to your rooms and think about your behavior.

It was just a story told. Now it's done. The story is over. It was funny to me and I think that is what she thought others here would find it to be and shared it with us.

Humor. It's fun, it makes you laugh. Some of you folks ought to try it. It won't hurt you.

Uncle Matt (in IL)

I think they may be getting at "waiting" as you put it in the house and in the stand is totally different.

"Waiting" in the house you have the luxury of heat, radio, TV, telephone, refrigerator and food, toilet, company of others and just all around comfortable accommodations.

I am not trying to join in the debate, I just think you are over looking the difference between stand/blind hunting and house hunting.

If it's legal and its your / his bag go for it.