[Bella_Bru]

All the deer hunters I knew used compound bows or rifles and actually did trudge around hunting. What is described as hunting in this article seems to me as no more hunting than what I do at the grocery store.

[Robert_Paulson2]

exactly right... just like shopping at the grocery store... where the animal has NO chance to get away...

[Orangedog]

It's good to see that the world isn't full of tree-stand sissies!

[El Gato]

All the deer hunters I knew used compound bows or rifles and actually did trudge around hunting. Most of the ones I know sit in a blind, somewhere where they think the deer will walk by. That blind might be in a tree, but it might not too. Different techniques are used in different terrain and on different species, including elk, antelope and of course the FR favorite Moose.

[Intimidator]

All the deer hunters I knew used compound bows or rifles and actually did trudge around hunting. What is described as hunting in this article seems to me as no more hunting than what I do at the grocery store.

Its not as easy as you think it is. In NC its legal to bait deer but they don't always eat the corn we put out. For instance, I put out corn feeders in September and the deer are barely touching it. Why you ask, well we got an unusually abundant mast crop this year and just about every oak tree is producing acorns. Deer love white oak acorns over any other food source. Sit over the acorns you say, yes we do that but determining what trees they are hitting the most is where the actual 'hunting' takes place. Not quite as easy as going to the grocery store. They will usually be hitting the trees closest to their bedding areas so they wont have to travel so far.