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Old 04-29-2007 | 07:49 AM
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BOWFANATIC
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Default RE: How do you hunt?

I hunt on 120 acres (by myself with bow) and I have four different stands that I use dependant upon wind direction. I know when I leave the house which stand I'm going to sit in.

One of the stands rarely gets used anymore. I placed it so the wind was in my favor in relation to a bedding area that the deer use. This particular stand was for wind out of the east.
I Placed it in a spot close enough, and high enough,to the bedding areathat I could see them move around in the staging area when they get ready to move in the evening.
For whatever reason, they don't even get up from their beds until dusk when there's an east wind. I don't know if anyone else has ever encountered this problem with an easterly wind, but I stay home now.

On the flip side of that, when I choose to stay home in the afternoon because of an east wind, I get out there before sunrise the next morning in my funnel stand and usually see deer later in the morning.

This year I've added a pop up ground blind to my arsenal. I'm not sure what kind of strategy I'll use with that.
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