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Old 08-14-2007 | 11:43 AM
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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

You can use cover scents ,carbon suits and all the other gadgets out there but as long as you are breathing & exhaling a buck can and will smell you.
Sorry, Jim. I took your statement at face value.
I know this is hard for you but some of us place stands where it is very difficult for a deer to approach us from down wind.This is done by using roads, creeks ,pondsor even man made obstacles ,such as dirty tee shirts strategically placed to prevent deer from approaching from down wind.
I am in North West PA ,the predominant wind is off of lake Erie. So I place and approach stands accordingly. Then comes along a low pressure front with winds spinning counter clock wise and you experience south ,south east winds . If this occurs it places bedding grounds that are usually down wind from the predominant West .north west winds susceptible to stands that are other wise useless, When all the pieces allfall together and this happens during the first two weeks of November during the pre rut then those stands that have been abandoned for years are worth there weight in gold.
This all probably seems beyond your realm of bow hunting ,but to some of us buck hunting is very important and doing it right is even more important.
Every year some kid with a borrowed bow kills a monster buck it happens ,I would rather not count on luck as the determining factorif I'm going to be successful or not.
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