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.
I don't think that anyone has said every time a deer scampers off it's because they were winded,but if it is with sight and you know where the wind is blowing and watch it's body langauge it's not very hard to tell what caused it.
If your hunting a bedding area and the wind starts blowing into it ,I feel no matter how high you are, chances are you ruined that hunt.