You want to experience coming from no where kind of quiet.Try hunting in Troy's part of the country where there are no hard wood tree's.It is so quiet that if you are sitting for an extended period of time your ears will start to ring.Two day old beard scruff on a fleece collar will sound very loud to you.I have had deer come right under a tree stand out there and never heard them coming.Deer will be within your field of vision and if you are not paying attention you can easily miss them.
I havn't witnessed big bucks being louder than other deer with the exception of tending grunts and their antlers hitting brush in thick area's.All to often they can be like ghosts in the woods,where they came and went and you second guess whether you actually saw them or not.
Some of the loudest commotion I have ever had is while still hunting for whitetails kicking up bedded elk,they don't go around brush or saplings they go through them.

IF that diddnt happen i would be making a lot better shots on deer im thinking.

you deffinatley (sp) said it right Magestic is one word to describe white-tails. I usually call them Ever-illusive-white-tails... but thats just for fun while im on the radio

Ryan.

I think that is part of what drives us as hunters. Not only the thrill and adrenaline of the hunt but the curiousity of the animal and how they can be so elusive to human life and predators. Its superior challenge that not all game animals offer and no matter where you hunt them they are just as difficult and elusive

It amazes me as well....i have often thought a bout it!

They sometimes can be so dumb.

I cannot find anything about a deer that does not amaze me. From there majestic racks to there stealth in the woods they are magnificent animals.

Yeah they are careful buggars...

Last night while on my stand, I was bowhunting...I glassed a little buck about 350 yards out following a doe down the ridge, I would get glimpses of them from my perch... I was a little worried for this buck as he was making his way into some open ground that is exposed to the county road. Sure enough I hear a pickup stop way down on the road. I can't see it but I was sure he could see the little buck an doe. I went back to glassing my immediate area for any approaching does since I am set up in a well travels doe area. I glass around and about 800 yards up on a ridge to the east of me, I see a nice buck coming down the mountain. He looks like a 3.5 year old 5x5, probably a 130 class buck.

About that time, BOOOM! a shot goes off from down the road. Sure enough that little buck that I had seen before probably got shot at. I immediatly looked back to my east in my binocs up on the mountain and found the nice 5x5, he was standing stone still staring in the direction of the shot. Now this shot is close to 1 mile by foot away from this 5x5 buck. For 1/2 an hour he locks down right there and will not move, I kept my eye on him the rest of the evening just to see his reaction to a distant gun shot. It was amazing how cautious he was being...

Just before dark I had one doe come by and I hoped shes would have a good buck in tow.. no dice.. I walked out, and saw the guy that had shot at the little buck and IHOLLARED to him ..did you kill him? Heyelled back.."no blood no hit".. and he then walked out about 700 yards from me...to his pickup and left...

I didnt kill a thing last night but once again got to watch the behavior of a semi-mature whitetail buck play out in regards to pressure..

My first thought was that you are dead on with your assessment, GMMAT. They are truly agile creatures for the size. If you put a 150# or 200# man in the same environment, he will never match the stealth. Then, I started thinking about the fact that these creatures live in this environment 24/7. I think back to the submariners I taught and how these guys (some well over 200 #) could move around the equipment in such a cramped space with such ease. I think it is largely about environment and conditioning. (I will state, however, that there is nothing "majestic" or "elegant" about submariners!)

Just when you think you have seen everything they always throw in a new wrinkle and surprise you. I had onezip across the road in front of my vehicle the other day. Moving at a high rate of speed when she got to the fence I expected the normal Majestic leap over the five strand barbed wire fencebefore performing a disappearing act into the timber.

No biggy, we have all seen it a thousand times right? Without missing a step or slowing down she went through the fence and hardly made the wire jiggle. How she squeezed her self through that space without getting hung up and doing it at that speed was really a wonder to behold. It was one of the most athletic maneuvers I have ever beheld in any field of endeavor.