I’m going to hunt where and how I need to hunt in order to kill deer. If that means sitting in a shooting house and waiting to better increase my chances so be it. If that means getting in the woods and hanging off the side of a tree ok. I don’t understand the need to hunt in the woods in order to do it it “right”. I’ll let the deer dictate what I need to do.
Same here, along with how I feel that day. Sometimes I want to sit in a nice, dry box and eat snacks and watch a food plot, which I don't consider hunting but am fine with it. Other times (mostly, nowadays), I'd rather try to solve a piece of the puzzle and be in the woods on a tree or ground blind. Some days I take my .30-30 or crossbow or bow or .44 Mag or rifle. Might change my mind and take the .22 and squirrel hunt. Just depends on how I feel that day.
Indians drove animals over cliffs and used fire and did whatever they needed to survive, yet we hold them up to some idylic standard. Same with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett - they did what they needed to do to survive.
Fred Bear, the godfather of archery, baited deer and bears to shoot them. He'd be called a POS cheater and "not a real hunter" today for those things. Yet he's idolized and deified as what we should aspire to.
Enjoy how you hunt, and do it legally and ethically.
