RE: I always hear this story...
I'd like to hear more about the smelly shirts. I might learn something.
First deer I ever took....I'd been watching them emerge from their sanctuary for a week or better. I sat two days waiting on a good wind to go a little deeper towards where I saw them coming from. Third day arrives and I get my wind. I'm there.....set up.....and what happens? TWENTY+ deer come from behind me.
I'll play it to my favor every chance I get. I don't doubt the conventional wisdom...but I won't base my entire season or even SOME hunts on it. Difference of opinion.
Just like the "One shot Practice" thread and the "Pick a hair when Aiming posts".....I just think there's more ways to skin a deer. I don't walk lock-step with conventional thinking at every turn. Heck...we're even shooting does, now.
Anyone can call what someone else does "luck". I plan on being lucky multiple times, this year.