Hunting a bad wind direction?
 

What do you do when you are faced with a stand where there is NO favorable wind direction? The deer could come from all directions. And other than a helicopter drop off, your entrance route could blow scent to deer regardless of direction.

Also what do you do when the wind changes on you? For example I was hunting a stand with supposedly a north wind. Well it blew from the north for the 1st half hour of light, then proceeded to blow every direction, but from the north after that. What do you do?

RE: Hunting a bad wind direction?
 

Starting this year I am trying to play the wind more. In the past, I didnt really pay much attention to wind and was still successful in seeing and harvesting deer. I just try to be scent free as possible. Thats all you can do sometimes. I've had deer smell me and stick around for a while, long enough for a shot.

RE: Hunting a bad wind direction?
 

I had a situation like that on Saturday morning. Seemed like every 10 min the wind was blowing a different direction. All I did was the usual. Tried to be as scent free as possible and check the wind more frequently so that I know what way my scent is blowing. I did happen to see only 1 deer that morning and sure enough he was directly down wind of me but never spooked or winded me.

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i just hunt ,to much worry ruins the hunt

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The only winds that I hate and are not anygood for any stand are Eastern winds. When they are out of the east ther more than likely will be no feast. Not sure how it is in other states but East winds in Wi suck.

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Winds out of the east indicate a storm is blowing in. Usually with east winds the sky will be red in the morning. The old sailors adage of "Red Sky at Night, Sailors delight. Red Sky in morning, Sailors take Warning." is pretty much true. If there is a red sunrise and winds are out of the east there is one heckova storm brewing.

RE: Hunting a bad wind direction?
 

Try to be as scent conscious as possible...carbon suit, scent eliminating hygience and clothing products, etc... You cannot play every angle.

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It's good to hear I'm not the only one who feels that way! I made the mistake of going out this last saturday with a northeast wind , figured if I sat the edge of a bedding area it might be different. Nope , I saw 2 doe get up and start browsing about 15 minutes before dark.

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Everytime the bad winds blow and I figure I'm better than I am......I loose.[:'(][:'(] The swirling winds are the worst. There's no way to win. Get down and go spend some time with the family. Collect some "Nice Guy" points from the little woman and save yourself for another day. If I'm determined, sometimes you just concede half the woods. Just figure nothing is coming from that direction because you stunk it up. Still keep an occasional eye out but for the most part it isn't going to happen. In moments of brillance, I've just gotten down and moved to another stand. Anytime I figure the winds have screwed me, it seems the winds have screwed me. We all know better than to persist but sometimes just force the issue anyway and just end up waisting time.

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Is thisin/near a food sourceor a travel route set up relatively far from a food/bedding area? If it's a food stand, I would be tempted to leave it alone period.Polluting feeding areas only lasts so long before they're onto you. If it's some sort of travel route, I would put it on the backburner till "buck chase doe" time and try it. If there's any time of the year that a pestered doe will lead buck right into danger just trying to get away from him, that's the time.

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Yup me too man, Wisconsin East winds suck. All I saw saturday was a doe real late too. East winds here dont necessarilly mean a storm but not good for hunting till the rut.

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Three times this year I have had bad winds for the stands I was in at the time. In the "olden" days we would just give up the downwind side and hunt the remaining three directions. With all this new technology in scent elimination and cover I have found it really does help...a lot. I shower before every hunt...wash clothes and use baking soda with each washing. I brush my teeth with baking soda being sure to floss and have even used the new scent cover gum which does seem to help with the breath some. I use two layers of Scent Lok, including hat and face mask. I also wear knee high rubber boots to reduce as much boot scent as possible and always spray them down with Carbon Blast before going out, including the soles. All of this rigmarole has paid off as each of the three hunts I have had pretty good luck with deer coming through downwind. Quite a few deer in fact.Now, please understand that all the scent elimination in the world does not seem to translate into it making you scent invisible. But what it does do is to make your scent so diluted so as to make that wise ole doe think it is still human scent, but from a human no longer in the area. I watched as does repeatedly would pick up traces of my scent. Looking right at me. Become very curious. They would walk away and come back (I also had some synthetic lure out) repeatedly. Only once, after inspecting the scent for 5 minutes did two does and fawns scurry off..and they did not snort and blow like they would if they had a good scent. So I would say try to avoid hunting stands with unfavorable winds when possible, but when that isn't possible just go for it. And always do everything possible to reduce human scent.