might get by and get lucky.....

but, sooner or later one will sneak in downwind unexpectedly...or will cross your trail before you get a shot and will pick up on it...or maybe theres an area being used by the deer downwind of you that you overlooked or whatever....

i had a mature doe and yearlings come into my setup 2 years ago....of all places to eat the mature doe picked DIRECTLY under my tree...i had to look THROUGH the slats on my stand to see her at the base of my tree...."oh nooooo" i just setup my climber and walked around the tree a couple times....been there a couple other times recently...peed and spit from my stand....for sure shes gunna bust me...that day i left my pull up rope hanging down...it was maybe a foot from the ground...she bumped it...which made her sniff it...tail went up and she jumped back...trotted to her yearlings 10yds away and she cautiously kept looking around and made it out of there...never blew or anything...but she had me....i never sprayed that rope..its always in the pouch when i spray the stand down.....i now open the pouch and spray inside when spraying the stand...

i spray everything every hunt....stand, pack, release, mist the bow, myself...everything....everything is washed and in a bin i keep in the SUV all season long...i still spray it down and mist it quick as it goes back into the box after the hunt...shower...i try to cover my bases....just to go as low key as possible...just for those times when the wind shifts...or he crosses my trail...or whatever....its not uncommon for my winds to shift a couple times a day...drives me NUTS...and to top it off, the deer seem to come from any direction because theres good bedding all around my main spot at home...

pain in the butt to goto your hunting spot and get out and have to change and all that...spray and soaps and stuff isnt cheap....but im serious about my hunting and want to maximize my chances...and since i started my routine ive seen more and havent seen negative results since....im sure i still get busted and dont know it....but ive had a gray fox downwind and cross my trail and never flinch...as well as many deer....