Hey Greg.....

While I do have the utmost respect for your abilities with these animals....AND I trus tyour judgement for your woods.....my experience (not the length of it....jsut the aformentioned single experience) taught me that caution can sometimes be thrown.....well....to the wind. Your strategy would have been the exact same as mine, that morning....because it started with a great wind. We had a weather system moving in....(I remember this because I thought I might get rained on....and I dropped my tree umbrella as I was climbing, that morning).....and the wind shifted abouta minute before the buck I shot came from my downwind side.

If you would have climbed down....I wouldn't blame you OR question your tactic. It worked out for me in this lone instance......but like I said.....if it had started out as a bad wind....I'd have still been in that area. I knew HE was.

Not contradicting your tactics in the least. just giving a real-life scenario that "worked out". Your tactics speak for themselves. Mine did in this one instance.

You NEVER "know".

Good luck this fall.