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I don't know. I've always been able to get to within <40 yards of most wildlife easily, and often by accident.
I never sit in blinds or treestands because I find it unnecessary and extremely boring. I always see other hikers before they see me and they always seem ridiculously loud and clumsy and oblivious to their surroundings. I frequently scare the shit out of them when I'm not trying to at all.
I think alot of it has to do with clothing that restricts freedom of movement. People wear very stiff and heavy boots with elevated heels that I would never wear under any circumstances. You can't possibly walk right in the woods wearing shit like that. They try to hold their pants up with just a belt, but that doesn't work because it doesn't get the crotch high enough to have full range of motion in your legs, which in turn fucks up your whole body and every movement you make. You need to wear suspenders and get the crotch way up so you can clear obstacles and maintain a wide stance on inclined terrain. You're never going to sneak up on wildlife wearing Frankenstein boots and some heavy tactical cargo pants hanging around your ass.
Another thing that's a massive help is a walking stick. When you have three legs instead of two, you can place every footstep very carefully because you always have two points or contact with the ground.
I only hunt with handguns. That way I can always have both hands on my walking stick to move with extreme precision, clear obstacles silently, climb steep rocky hills on all fours without injuring myself, and just generally not have anything fucking up my body mechanics. That's the only way I can see game. I can't see any animals when I'm dragging some rifle around, I scare them all away. People think I'm crazy when I say that but that's my experience.
