Being stealthy.....

[Thumper Dunker]

Originally posted by Matt Fowler:
Agree with all but also think you need to get your head right. Mentally you need to become a predator. Forget about time. Try to get tuned in to your senses, sight, sound, and smell. Learn about wide angle vision. It might sound corny but it works for me.

+2 And always be hunting looking ahead If you see him stalk em like a cat goes after a bird only move when thier not listning or looking. It also helps if thier asleep.

[fujimo]

i agree with everything i have read above-some more so, and some a little less- but all very valid!!
 however would just like to add, always watch your back trail.
many a time, they will stand dead still, well hidden, until you get past them, then the release of pressure on them, allows them to move, and they will often cross your trail.
watch your backtrail- no matter how you do it.

[LKH]

Perhaps nothing I've done has made a bigger difference than my hat.  

I've got different one's, but the simplest is a military booney hat.  I put whatever the local vegetation is in to the loops.  Not much, normally 2 or 3 pieces that stick up above my head.  Others have artificial flowers and leaves sewn into the top and brim.

What this does is allow me to peek over and if caught, I never duck.  I simply hold still and eventually they will ignore me.  Most of the time.
 
I've used these hats successfully on elk, muleys, caribou and antelope.  Well, I never seem to hit the antelope.

[tradtusker]

Time is your friend- wind is not.
If the wind is not right forget it. Change plans

Think about where you want to go and where your going to walk in relation to the surrounding, Humans like to take the easiest route, your going to want to walk through a clearing when you should be in the edge.

Use game trails they are quieter.

Tune your scenes and then use them.

You need to stop often (I change pace, if the are's starts looking good, I slow down more)  then you need to listen carefully and look carefully.  Use your bino's. being lazy with either will get you busted.  

You have see the game first! (this sounds simple but its not and its KEY to success)

Don't wear boots or big shoes or either with a lot of Tread. More Tread=more noise.

have good core balance and control. (train-fitness) Walk so that you can be 3/4 through a stride and be able to stop without putting that foot down, if you fall forward you have to much weight going forward and not enough control to put for foot down quietly.

*OK-walking along casually does not spook game the same like some have mentioned above, BUT, you try turn that into a kill with a stick bow and I promise, you are simply better of doing it right and seeing the game first.

Did I say Stop and look and listen often      

some kind of face paint or face cover for deer hunting.

are a few