This may be a dumb question about hunting?

Uhhhh frick no.
If I had to do that to kill a deer I would just shoot the fricker at night with the buddies I’m hunting with off the can-am while drinking a few mixed drinks.
It isn’t about just killing a deer to me. It’s everything from habitat improvements, fighting Mother Nature, fun with friends and playing a game of chess with an animal that may only make a 1-2 mistakes his whole life while beating your arse more times then you can count. If it was just about killing a deer most of us would just be an Outlaw.
I would never sleep in a boat every time I wanted to go duck hunting either, or my fricking truck for that matter.

Now, I do know of at least one place in Canada that leaves your butt in a little shack out in the middle of nowhere with only what you need for 5-7 days to live and a fricking journal and something with while you are hunting wolves. I was told your journal gets pretty strange after about being there 3-5 days by yourself and no other person to talk to.

It’s not illegal. Like others just would want to get a good night sleep in my bed.

Serious deer hunters have a stand for each prevailing wind.

I figured there had to some hunters doing it, but I've never heard anyone talk about it. TBH, I thought it must be illegal, so that's why no one was talking about it.

Like I said, I'm not a hunter, but some of my buddies are hardcore hunters and will spend hundreds of dollars on seed and feed and days getting the plots and the camp ready, so I figured there had to be some hunters that would sleep in the cold, if it meant a shot at a huge deer.

I tried hunting one time on a really cold day because my buddies said that's when the big bucks are moving, but the only thing moving were the leaves and branches blowing in the wind, while I froze to death. So those of you who said you would never sleep in a shooting house, I totally understand!

Bill Winke had a YouTube video about doing exactly this, but he was sleeping in a bag on the ground, not a shooting house. The concern in noise on the hike in more than the hunter’s entry scent trail.

Yea, I realize you probably have no idea who that is.

First deer I ever killed, it was pissing rain and I had a cheap rain suit. It sounded like rain on a tin roof, so very loud. Got pissed and decided the hunt was pretty much over, so I'm going to have a cigarette while I wait for sunset & my partner to finish hunting.

Cigarettes were in my jean's pocket, under a pair of coveralls, under a rain suit. I made all kinds of noise trying to get to my smokes, under 3 layers. My gun barrel was dinging off the climber stand and I'm wrestling my layers.

Finally get a smoke light it and sit back in my stand and there's a freaking deer, 25 yds away. Put the cigarette in my mouth, raised my gun and rolled her.

First buck I ever killed, walked down the game trail to retrieve my stand that was 150yds deep in the woods. Grabbed it from the tree and doubled back down the same trail. Found a new tree and climbed up. An hour later a nice 8 pt comes strutting down the same trail chasing a doe. He's on my wall.

I obviously don't play the scent game.

I did this a few times because our lease was three hours away and the only camp within reasonable distance flooded that year.

An egg crate, and a heavy sleeping bag. It wasn’t nearly as bad as it sounds.

Off topic but I can not stand the term, shooting house. Carry on

I’ve done it a few times. My gf years ago would hunt with and sleep in the stand. It was a big 4x8 boxstand so there was plenty of room.

Killed a doe right at daylight once when she was with me. I had to wake her up before I shot it.