RE: Stalking and still hunting
When still hunting, you want to move move so slow that anything looking at you would not even see you moving. A good still hunter will move 50 feet in 20 minutes. You want to stop ever 5 feet and look at every aspect of the enviroment around you looking and listening for the bedded deer. An ear flickering, the tip of an antler, stuff like that.
Still hunting is either to be done in bedding areas or in areas with limited visibility. Stalking is good for early and late in the day when deer are moving and feeding. Usually in open areas with obstacles cover you from a deer's view.
Still hunting or even sitting down and waiting next to trails to and from bedding areas and feeding areas would be good for the period between bedding and feeding time when the deer will be using the trails.
Nic