A appreciate your honest answer, and I assumed as much...I don't know if you realize it or not but your previous post was pretty much as slap in the face to hunters who happen to use tree stands..."not being real hunting", etc.
I guess the opinion I have on the matter is that we probably shouldn't put down other hunters techniques as though they're inferior to our own...and in particular, if we take a stand to sit down and wait for a deer to come along, then it's no different a form of hunting than sitting in a tree stand to wait for a deer to come along...sitting and waiting is sitting and waiting, whether it's sitting on the ground or in a tree.
I spend a lot of time scouting throughout the year walking land, scouting for sign, food sources, bedding areas and trails then set up stand locations accordingly...that's a lot of what hunting is all about...then whether I sit on the ground, or up on a hillside, or on top of a large boulder, or in the crotch of a tree (or in what today we call tree stands) is irrelevant.
In the same vein, some would say 'deer drives' with people or dogs are not real hunting either, just shooting...but some people enjoy that form hunting...live and let live, eh?
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