I read and own that book. Many years ago when I first read it I thought that their point of hunting scrapes when the wind was at a buck's back was interesting. I even duped myself into hunting such a routine. Man.. what an idiot I once was in the deer woods!

While I'am sure that A (very few, and usually young deer) whitetail buck has done this before, that's just not the way a mature buck moves. Mature bucks move with the wind in their nose.. either directly, a cross wind into, or downwind of. Big bucks usually move downwind of heavy cover. Big bucks, when entering a scrape area, have that wind in their face. Before entering a field to feed, that wind is usually as downwind as the buck can get. Otherwise he'll just wait til after dark to move.

Mature bucks, or any deer, use their number 1 friend.. their own nose as often as they can.