Greg....I'm not downplaying their sense of smell, at all. I'm downplaying what I think is often OVERPLAYED......which is us thinking we know everything that spooks them and how to avoid it. In essence.....I'm giving them MORE credit for being harder to figure out.

I'm just saying we can't pas it off as "I got winded" everyt ime we see deer scamper. We ought to just say the truth. We don't know why they ran off. We didn't see anything. We didn't hear anything. We didn't smell anything.

It's a well-known fact in here that I have a healthy repsect for your knowledge of these animals. If you say they winded you.....I believe it. What I don't fall lock-step into is the bandwagon that says they won't hunt a stand they've checked the wind for (before they got into it)....if the wind switches.

In this scenario....I don't think you're givingYOURSELF enough credit.

No disrespect re: your knowledge or beliefs, at all.....just a difference of opinion.