OK.....so what do you do when you check the wind with your (___________) windicator....and it's not favorable? Are you getting down?
It depends where I am, the kind of stand, what the deer do there, If I know what the deer do there, consistancy of "bad wind", if I have seen deer earlier that day, What kind of scent control measures I took before getting into the woods, what time it is, etc.
I hunt in my backyard mostly too. It is very niceAin't it. I have a lock-on about 40-50 yards from our horse pasture, You can almost see it from my kitchen sink. (200 or so yards from sink too stand). This stand is in a funnel created by The pasture and a subdivision. My house is SW of my stand, bedding areas are N & E subdivision NE. I try to keeep the wind headed tworard the pasture but some times they swirl. Have got Down? Yep, when You watch deer come from the same place almost every time it makes sence. Have I stayed put? yea, but those days were less productive. It is easy with a lock-on too get out quickly and quietly. The other day I was in there 20 minutes after sunup then at about 8:30 some fast food came back too haunt me
. I went to take care of things and then got back in at 9:00 saw a nice little 7 pointer at 9:30. The wind was perfect that day.
I can watch the weather channel......step outside to make sure......and go from there (as to stand choice) before I leave the house.
That's what I usually do Wait untill the morning go out side and see what the wind is doing.
As for weather men.......they are pathological liars in my book[:@].
I usually will pick a few diffrent trees for diffrent wind when hunting areas such as a scrape, today thats what I was doing over a BIG scrape. I saw the same 7 point come in and stand on his hind legs to work a licking branch. I decided too move to a diffrent tree while I was up there. I got down(1:30) andclimbed that one too scope that oneout. at about 2:00pm After I had climbed up and was getting situated a doe came in down wind Of me. she left quietly.
Hunting the wind can be very very confusing for me at times and others I'm sure. sometimes it is impossible. but I like too know where I stand concerning the wind. after a deer blows and runs I will check the wind too see if that is what it was.
I ended up useing PA Hardwoods Idea with the carpenters chalk. It was $0.88 cents for a lot at wally world so I put it in a diffrent lotion bottle antd it works pretty good.