Leaving something " down wind" doesn' t always work, as I can attest to as I left my hat and my face mask at the last point I saw my PA deer this year. I left my things less than 50 yards from where I found the deer the next morning. I had hit a little far back and didn' t want to push it, with heavy rain and winds predicted last Tuesday night I thought I would be ok. In hind sight, the wind had been blowing the tree to hard to make a pin point shot and being my last night to hunt in PA for awhile I let myself take a shot from a tree that was really rocking in 40 mph winds. The shot was fatal, but if it had been a true double lunger I would have pulled it out that night instead of having to wait. I blame myself totally. I did tag the deer as I don' t think it would right for me to shoot another buck in PA this year, but I left the rest of the venison for Ma Nature. This deer was exactly 75 yards from my tree stand.