Silence and not being seen walking into stands

My quess there is the road grader is a new sound causing an alert, the school bus is a repetitive none threatening sound.

My father ran a huge boreing mill and a lot of the.cuts were up to an hour long and my dad would sleep through the whole cut waking up just as the bit cleared the cut. This was a machine spinning a huge piece of cast iron, it wasn't quiet. Let the bit hit a sand pocket in the casting and dad was awake before the casting finished the revolution.

When I was going to school nights I ran an 80 ton overhead crane and caught up on my sleep at work. The boss came by and yelled my name and cussed me out till he was horse, my control cage was three stories off the ground. He finally went over to one of the guys and asked how they ever get me to do anything. The guy let out one "WHOOP" and I was awake and ready to go, just shook his head and walked away and never said a word.

Animals and humans can sort sounds, some are meaningless some convey danger or importance.
 
a deer can tell the difference in the way a hunter walks verses the way they walk. heavier footfall and cadence while walking.

same for coyote. they know we arent deer.
 
While I believe you should make an effort (within reason) to approach your stand quietly, sometimes you can't help but make some noise. That isn't the end of the world. On more than one occasion, I've been snowshoeing through snow so crunchy you'd swear every coyote in the county heard you, and still called in coyotes.
 
i forgot to chamber a round at the vehicle one night. i realized my mistake as we were walking on a rather crunchy rocky tractor path between two corn fields. i notified my buddy who stopped. i chambered a round into my AR style rifle as quietly as i could. we went another 100 yards and peeked around the end of the one cornfield and spotted two coyotes out in the field.

i guess chambering a round and walking on crunchy ground wasnt a concern for those two. (no kill anyway)
 
Once back in the days of red lights I forgot to put clip in my Browning X-Bolt. Walking in to make a set my headlamp picked up eyes in a cut cornfield about 100 yards out. Hit the gun light and through scope see a coyote sniffing around. Pulled trigger and nothing! Reality sets in… panic mode… dig clip out of pocket and insert with audible “click”… coyote suspects something is up and starts loping and heading towards downwind… Cycle the action and chamber a round… coyote picks up a little steam but still just trotting…bark at it to stop it… coyote keeps trotting… screw it, let one fly… coyote drops and doesn’t twitch.

What’s this have to do with silence and not being seen? Nothing! Absolutely the opposite! But sometimes you get lucky and pull it off.

In another post I mentioned a Silly Straw, in regards to my learning curve… See what I mean? 🤣
 
I went calling again and tried out both the super slow stealth and the 3 quiet steps stop look listen tactics. I think all of them have their time and place.

In the future if going into a place first time kind of scouting it, I will go quick as possible not caring about noise and bring some bait and leave it for animals to eat. If I find a calling spot in there I will come back in more stealth at another time to call it.

I really liked the 3 step stop for coming down a trail reasonably quietly but also needing to cover some ground. That 60 seconds a step stuff I’ll probably never use again to be honest, but more like 10 seconds step at the caller spot to really not be seen as easily and heard there I liked that.

Anyways, thanks for all the tips and reply’s guys
 
One of the most important things I learned from AWS was to shut all of the vehicle doors quietly and to make sure your vehicle is "camoed" as well as possible.
 
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