Anyone know of tips to stalk hint white tail?

I used to hunt a property that was conducive to this type of hunting. It consisted of large hardwood stands, hills and hollows, and you signed in for an area, not a stand. This gave me room to ease around.
Best conditions were during a rain or just after. A windy day helped cover sound. I’d drop off into the bottom of a hollow into a wet weather creek. The banks would come up chest height. One morning, I had to shoot up at a buck at about ten yards.
I killed my first deer with a bow while walking out of the woods after a morning hunt. Otherwise, I’ve never used that method with a bow.

I used to hunt a property that was conducive to this type of hunting. It consisted of large hardwood stands, hills and hollows, and you signed in for an area, not a stand. This gave me room to ease around.
Best conditions were during a rain or just after. A windy day helped cover sound. I’d drop off into the bottom of a hollow into a wet weather creek. The banks would come up chest height. One morning, I had to shoot up at a buck at about ten yards.
I killed my first deer with a bow while walking out of the woods after a morning hunt. Otherwise, I’ve never used that method with a bow.

Do it in the rain, winding trail, stay close to the trees and be ready and go slowly as you make turns and come on clearings.
If you know you are coming on a clearing with food, watch your step and cut through the woods slowly.
Always be silent.

If you do everything right, you will make those corners and some does will jump and run close enough that it startles you. Just freeze and watch. Sometimes they disappear but come back into that clearing.

You can go on and take one of the does, that's what I do, or wait on the buck to show he's there somewhere.

There is a guy in New Zealand that trains dogs to stalk deer. The dogs find the deer for you and just stop and look at it.

He has a website and videos on how to train a dog to do it but it's expensive. He has some videos on YouTube.

My then 14 year old son had called me while I was on stand to tell me he’d killed a big buck. He was so excited, he still had his boots off when I got down there. He’d slipped him off and stalked the buck and forgot he didn’t have them on.

It certainly can be done. Most of the time when a deer is killed this way it is because the deer was moving and you were pausing. You hear the deer and wait for it to step into view. So basically just stand hunting hundreds of times a hunt but only staying on stand for 15 seconds or so.

That is how most deer get killed while moving. Of course when it works the way it is written it is freaking awesome.

I only stand hunt now. But back when I had free roam of more land I had success a few times doing this.

Move fast to cover a lot of ground. When you push up a deer it will run a short distance and stop. Usually this is when the deer is out of sight already. At this point walk away for 30 yards or so and then quietly get into position to see where the deer was jump from originally.

If it was a doe. You are out of luck. If it was a buck you have a chance. A buck is much more particular about where it beds down. If it thinks you have moved off it will often come right back to bed down again in the same spot.

This method actually works. But the success rate that I had with it wasn't very high compared to stand hunting.

If you hunt off a horse you can get right up on deer with no problem. That’s more of a gun hunt situation thought. I know some guys that built a high fence and wanted to kill all the native deer on the property, they went in with horses and said they could get right up on the deer before they would even notice something wasn’t right. Probably would have to own your own land to do this though.

Its best if you know the property and the terrain well. If you don't, study topo maps, identify possible bedding areas and travel corridors.

I love to hunt this way, but only do it once or twice a year because you can push deer out of an area. I usually do it at the end of the season as a mixture of scouting while sign is fresh and hunting.

Time of day matters, are you hoping to slip up on bedded deer or catch them on their feet moving?

Either can be productive, my favorite might be to slip mid day on an wet and windy day. Wind covers sound an motion. They will often lay where they can smell the wind and look upwind where they can't smell.

For that reason I like to hunt quartering or crossing the wind.

Move along trails, bedding areas, often parallel and higher if possible.

Move slowly and with the wind and even if they bust, if they can't see you and smell you, they won't run far and may not all bust out. I've seen does bust and bucks lay tight a number of times. Sometimes they'll circle back.

Sometimes you'll just get lucky. I did this Friday, I busted a buck off of a bed that couldn't see or smell me. Apparently he misjudged where the sound was, or else thought I was a hot doe He jumped out of his bed and came straight at me on a dead lope. He veered at 30 yards and stopped at 40...I smoked him and it was some kinda fun.

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS wear your orange. Don't do it unless you are the only one in the area, and I mean within several hundred yards, and still wear your orange.