ORIGINAL: bawanajim
ORIGINAL: GR8atta2d
I certainly watch the wind and have stands or options for changing conditions. But let me ask a question.
You are hunting the edge of a woods where it meets a field: Just say, up is North, and the field is the most lushes biologic ever planted. There are numerous trails in the thick woods with no single bedding area.
What wind do you hunt this stand, without risking spooking deer?
Woods
____________YOU__________(tree line)
Field
Chances are does and young bucks will walk a direct route from their beds to the field edge. A mature buck will most likely not enter the field before dark unless the rut is near or happening . Your best stand placement would be some where around twenty yards inside the woods on the down wind corner of this field. A mature buck will circle and scent check this field from the safety of the woods first before entering the field.If the wind varies then two stands would be ideal.
Jim I certainly understand the buck will circle downwind which is my point.
if The wind is coming off the field into the woods. This would allow the buck to scent check the field, and will probably be the entry side. By placing a stand there. You are polluting the "holding" woods with your scent. By getting 20 yards inside the woodline, you may create more of a scent free direct vicinity but you then sending your scent further in. Which in turn may keep him from coming to the field edge to check it at all.
I'm just playing devils advocate.. Because there are always circumstances that the more you think about it the harder it becomes.