Stealth

[DrMike]

you could sit there in a lime green/blaze orange/hot pink prom dress and they'd never know it.

Wow! Talk about colourful! However, TMI! :shock:

 

[Ridgerunner665]

I knew you guys would have a ball with that...lol.

 

[Elkman]

My experiences are the same, squirrels jumping from one knee to the other, a herd of Grouse walking between my legs, an adult Pine Martin stalking my head, a fox within inches, elk within feet, and a deer following me home. She hung around the house for a couple of days, why I do not know. She had nothing to do with sitting still, but it was worth mentioning.

 

[Oldtrader3]

I walked up on a pair of second year moose, brother and sister, and got within 10 yards in the sagebrush before they finally caught a whiff of me with changing thermals, snuffled and took off. I have also walked with in 50 feet of a well endowed Shiras bull moose, sat down, and watched him walk up and smell my boots after I had been sitting there against a quaky for about 20 minutes. Boy was he surprised!

 

[Darkhorse]

My son could never quite get the hang of moving quietly through the woods. He had outsize feet and seemed to attract dry branches, vines and cornflake dry leaves. But he could sit still in a deer stand and has several nice bucks to his credit. So we would cut a trail from downwind (predominate) then drag it with a rake so he could sneak in without making a sound. I have done the same thing for myself on more than one occasion.
I try to get in a couple of squirrel hunts a year. After the deer season is over and the woods are quiet and empty of people. Even down here you can count on cold mornings and if your lucky it has rained and the leaves are quiet.
But I don't hunt for a bag of squirrels anymore, just a couple make me happy. I only hunt them now with a .40 cal. Flintlock I built some years back out of top quality components. If I can connect a couple of good head shots I am a happy hunter.