Stalking and Still hunting

[59Alaskan]

I used to think I didn't have the patience to sit in a blind/stand, but to me still hunting requires much more patience than the above mentioned.  You've committed yourself to move around, but you really should be only covering 100 yards in 30 minutes or longer depending on a variety of circumstances.

I do enjoy still hunting.  It's a ton of fun, but don't get fooled thinking it's not a bunch of standing still and watching, listening etc...

You do never know what will happen when.  You have to be 100% mentally alert and if you think you're moving slow enough, you likely are not.

[Mint]

I think ishootforthrills gave you the best advice. The connecticutt woods can be like the long island woods were i hunt and they are not made for stalking. First, the leaves are so noisy you get busted easily and second the woods are crowded so you are going to blow someones stand hunt more often than not. What i have down is go to a goodtrail , like you said you found and set up and wait for awhile. Then when you have to move stalk slowly to your next spot. This has worked for me.

If I really want to get serious, I get completely off sugar and caffeine.  If I do not have the patience to scan every thing with my binos, I know that I have to just sit.  If there are a lot of other hunter in the woods, I go to where they never do.  Areas that do not have any place to put tree stands. Then I still hunt until I find the right wind conditions, cover, and deer sign, then I stop and sit tight.
I had a lucky tree stand years back.  I put it way back.  I left my truck at first hunting light and I still hunted all the way to the stand.  I took food with me so I could hunt later in the day. when I left it I still hunted all the way back to the truck.  I got my deer every year while sneaking back and forth to that stand and never got one good chance while sitting in the stand.

[ChuckC]

Moving slow means moving half the speed you thought was slow before.

We tend to move too fast and not even realize it.  I had a great lesson from a 3' garter snake that was hunting in a bush that was the side of one of my ground blinds.  He was elevated, in the bush and moved so slowly you almost couldn't see it move.  

He was only three or four feet away from me and I watched him for about an hour.  The amount of time it took him to go about five feet.
ChuckC