Allen76 said:
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Which one? Because they are two distinctly different things.
Yes, OP said "Spot and Stalk". If you stillhunt enough times, you can get a deer to walk right over your feet.
But if you spot your intended target, and then stalk it, it is highly unlikely to get within 40 yards of a standing whitetail.
Spot & Stalk: You find and identify your prey (usually by glassing from afar) then create a plan to get you within reasonable range of the target. Hard to do, but given the right weather conditions and or topography it's not necessarily hard to do. Challenging certainly but people do it all the time.
Still Hunt: You are still on the move, but have no prey animal spotted. You are moving very slowly through the country (woods usually - but I do it a lot in Western Kansas as well) looking for game while proceeding. You move 3-5 steps, stop and glass, glass, glass, listen, listen, listen. Move another short distance, glass, listen, glass, listen. Lather/rinse/repeat, but you are on the move. You should be still much more than you are on the move, but you're still covering ground in search of yet to be spotted game. Once you do successfully spot something you may well switch over to spot & stalk hunting, but more often than not the animal is already pretty close to you if you're using the wind/rain/terrain to your ultimate benefit.
If you are literally just sitting still in one place, whether that place is a tower blind, tri-pod, tree stand, or just on the ground you are NOT still-hunting in the traditional sense.
