I posted yesterday about wind changes while sitting in your tree stand. I'll elaborate a little more with my next question.

I'm hunting my friend's property and he boards horses there. I walk through the horse pastures to get to my stand, which is in a timbered draw, with steep sides and running roughly NE to SW. There are corn fields to the NE at the end of the draw, approximately 300 yards down the draw. A small spring fed creek runs through the draw. I assume there is bedding and mast crops SW in the draw, and along it's sides. Let me correct that. I know there is mast crops, and I assume thereare bedding areas. The wind shifts a lot in the draw, blowing NE or SW through it.

My buddy says he and his wife can get very close to deer while on horse back, but not on foot. So my question is this:Is there a way I can exploit this to my advantage? My thoughts are these. The deer seem to be accustomed to smelling people with horses, so if I took one of the saddle blankets with me to the stand, could that possibly put the deer at ease a bit if the wind shifts, or will they still become alerted because that combination of smells is down where they don't usually smell them?

Thanks.