I will be doing a bit of stalking this fall in Argyle Scotland with professional stalker Chris Dalton. We were supposed to have gone this past October for the hunt, but it seems that COVID19 had changed our plans. We were to hunt at the Kinnaird Estate in eastern Scotland but will now hunt in the western part of Scotland and on one of three estates there.

Chris Dalton is a former British Military sniper and has been a professional stalker for 20 years or more, and for the past two consecutive years was selected as Stalker of The Year.

In this video he gives a very good description about the hunt with a few colorful references about the "roar" (rut). The hunt takes place at the Kinnaird, where we were scheduled to hunt this year. Beautiful country.

Space had a good friend from Penobscot and hunted with him for years miles and miles of paper company land and some monsters

All depends on terrain. Spot and stalk doesn't do very well is the thick stuff where you can't get a line on a herd and the deer will hear you coming before you see them. In those cases, I agree with cbump's assessment -- find sign and sit it

The only time I did a lot of it was before hunter orange. I wore a red/black block/checker wool shirt and I think it was harder for deer to spot me. Now a days I would be worried about becoming a target. A lot of really anxious guys wanting to shoot something.

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we hunt mostly out of stands because the vast majority of the properties i've gotten to hunt on simply weren't big enough to accomodate stalking or property owner's didn't allow for it. I've spot n stalk hunted some though as well too and its just as enjoyable where you have the ability to do it. as a younger person we leased on maybe 700ac place in the hill country...we had to hunt out of blinds was all the landlady would allow us to do....but she disliked the pigs enough that she would let us hunt the pigs in the dark. my brother and i would walk the pasture roads and trails in the dark just listening...hogs would be in the oak motts...on still nights you could hear them in the distance and appraoch them based on sound to make a shot by flashlight or moonlight. was pretty fun.

I like sitting at the base of a tree in the woods. I like to scrape away the leaves to where I'm sitting on the dirt in an attempt to stay quite. Also, I like to push up the leaves to block some of my movements. This last year, I started using one of those small camo nets from Walmart. I hastily string it to small trees or bark to make a small makeshift blind. I'm finding I can't sit as still as I used do so I need a little more help.