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It's funny you mention going slow makes more things noticeable. Last season I was looking at a fresh rub. Literally as soon as I take a step a pretty nice 3 point took of into the really thick brush. I'm sure it was his rub I was looking at...You simply must have ground that is quiet when you step on it. Warm dry late summer and early fall makes still hunting problematic in many situations. If you can find overgrown roads or we'll used game trails then your odds of being quiet improve. You must also be patient. When I'm in a good spot with good sign I slow way down. One step, count to 10 slowly, repeat. Staying slow like this will low you to spot many things you would never see if you were moving more quickly.
The best deer hunter I know wears home made moccasins. He is a real ninja in the woods.
One year he had me waiting at a small pond next to an old homestead. It has a grove of old apple and pear trees next to it that the deer come to visit late in the day before they bed down for the night.
Standing in the shallows of the pond was a large blue heron with it's wings out stretched and staring intently down into the water.
It was creating a shadow that the small trout would swim into and it would snatch them up for dinner if one came close enough.
I had been watching the heron for over an hour, when I watched my friend come out of the woods.
He spied the heron and managed to sneak up to it so quietly that when he got to within two feet (He's managed to get in the water right behind it) he takes a stick he had picked up and pokes it in the butt.
The heron explodes upwards and starts to frantically flap it's wings trying to get airborne and also try to look over it's shoulder at what poked him.
The funniest part was all of the loose feathers floating down after it made it's getaway.
I wish I had a video camera on me, because it was really was something to see.