ARanger- I found your post to be interesting and I respect what you're saying.
A point that I would like to make however, is that I feel that your success in "stalking" a deer is directly related to the terrain that you're hunting. For instance, stalking open country full of field edges and bean fields is much more likely to produce a nice deer than stalking a heavily-wooded area with eight inches of crunchy leaves on the ground. No matter how you slice it, you can be much more stealth-like on a prairie than you can be in the deep, thick woods.
Something my dad always told me that seems to become more true every day, is that "If you see the deer before it sees you, chances are you'll kill it. If the deer sees you before you see it, you won't." There's a lot of truth to that little saying.

JMO.