I have some surveyors ribbon on the end of a tall anennae on the fence at the house and a couple of places out at the deer farm. I also look at the flags at the Veterans Memorial on the way through town. When I'm in the stand I have some of that white powder in a squirt container. It really doesn't make much difference though,once I get in the stand.

OK.....so what do you do when you check the wind with your (___________) windicator....and it's not favorable? Are you getting down?

I think the answer he gave you was spot-on. Throw some grass up......pick a stand. It sounds viable, to me. I have the luxury of hunting close to home. I can watch the weather channel......step outside to make sure......and go from there (as to stand choice) before I leave the house. Once I'm in the stand......sorry....it doesn't make a flip which way it's blowing. I'm committed.

So.....MY question is.......what difference does it make.....once you're on stand??? I've always wanted to know this.

Thanks, Isatarak.

Jeff

Grass or leaves, whatever the heck is closer to me. LOL

I am not gonna spend my money on a hyped up product when nature provides it's own sources of checking wind.

As far as making a difference in stand, I don't bother with it. I have deer come from all directions, so if the wind is blowing my scent behind me, I know there is a *chance* I will have a deer come in from that direction, but I focus most of my scouting on the area in front of me and vice versa.

Hunting the wind doesn't make much sense to me considering where I hunt I am either smack dab in the middle of the woods or on the edge of a field and woodsline... there are deer all around, so what the heck does it matter?It's not like all of the deer are concentrated in one single area... I never have understood that. The only time I care about wind is when it is over 15mph and I ain't goin' out to sit in a tree then anyway.

I always say to each his own though, we all hunt different and no one is less of a person for the products they choose to buy or the methods they choose to hunt.

Waaaaiiitttttt.......

I FULLY understand the importance of playing the wind....and I do so RELIGIOUSLY.

Buck Huntin Girl.....I'd only ask you this......HOW MANY deer do you NOT see because you've set up "up-wind" of them? You'll never know this......but I used to think that because I wasn't VISUALLY being busted.....or that I wasn't visually seeing deer bust me in my stands.....that I was in my area undetected. Silly me. If I've learned anything.....it's a fact that I've spooked/alerted/been busted by MANY deer that I've never seen. I KNOW that, now. ALL I can do, now.....is try to limit my exposure.....

However......once I'm on stand......I'm committed.

Jeff

I usually fart and ask my buddy if he can smell it. If he does i've generally got good wind, but if I smell it, well it pretty much stinks any way you look at it (I have to smell it, and the deer are probably going to come down wind of us.)

I don't have any way to know what I do and do not see, but neither does anyone else, right?

I guess I just don't worry that much about it. I know I usually see tons of deer, especially the later in the season I go. I am not saying there is anything wrong with playing the wind or anything of that nature... I just don't focus all my energy on it, ya know?

My husband has never been one to "choose" a location based on wind, and he's taken some mighty fine bucks on the small 7 acres that we hunt. Usually what it comes down to, pick a stand, hunt that one often and learn the routines and patterns surrounding it. It seems to have worked pretty well for us. This is my fourth year hunting, so far I haven't gotten one this year (weather not cooperating, and LOTS of time left), but I've scored 3 for 3 the last three years. My husband only went out a few times last year, didn't get one, but every year before that for the last 9 he has taken at least one. He also took a decent 5 the first week of bow season this year... also downwind of him.

In fact, three weeks ago, I had a small buck 10 yards DOWNWIND (bout 10 mph winds) of me directly behind my stand. It has a lot to do with your location as well, do the deer smell human scents often sothat they become accustomed to? If so, then scent control isn't the biggest factor. If you are hunting back woods, no civilization, no human scent, sure as tootin' I'd be taking ALL the precautions for scent control and wind factors, that's a completely different ballgame.

It depends where I am, the kind of stand, what the deer do there, If I know what the deer do there, consistancy of "bad wind", if I have seen deer earlier that day, What kind of scent control measures I took before getting into the woods, what time it is, etc.

I hunt in my backyard mostly too. It is very niceAin't it. I have a lock-on about 40-50 yards from our horse pasture, You can almost see it from my kitchen sink. (200 or so yards from sink too stand). This stand is in a funnel created by The pasture and a subdivision. My house is SW of my stand, bedding areas are N & E subdivision NE. I try to keeep the wind headed tworard the pasture but some times they swirl. Have got Down? Yep, when You watch deer come from the same place almost every time it makes sence. Have I stayed put? yea, but those days were less productive. It is easy with a lock-on too get out quickly and quietly. The other day I was in there 20 minutes after sunup then at about 8:30 some fast food came back too haunt me. I went to take care of things and then got back in at 9:00 saw a nice little 7 pointer at 9:30. The wind was perfect that day.

That's what I usually do Wait untill the morning go out side and see what the wind is doing.
As for weather men.......they are pathological liars in my book[:@].

I usually will pick a few diffrent trees for diffrent wind when hunting areas such as a scrape, today thats what I was doing over a BIG scrape. I saw the same 7 point come in and stand on his hind legs to work a licking branch. I decided too move to a diffrent tree while I was up there. I got down(1:30) andclimbed that one too scope that oneout. at about 2:00pm After I had climbed up and was getting situated a doe came in down wind Of me. she left quietly.

Hunting the wind can be very very confusing for me at times and others I'm sure. sometimes it is impossible. but I like too know where I stand concerning the wind. after a deer blows and runs I will check the wind too see if that is what it was.

I ended up useing PA Hardwoods Idea with the carpenters chalk. It was $0.88 cents for a lot at wally world so I put it in a diffrent lotion bottle antd it works pretty good.

If you're sitting in your stand, what good does knowing which way the wind is blowing do you?

Choosing a spot, sure. Still hunting, ok, fine. But if your stand is up, and you're in it, it's too late too worry about the wind.

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Okey I get that you should setup so the prevailing wind is in you favor but that can change sometimes during your hunt. in this situation you wouldn't move?

Wind, and weather and the rut and moon phases.. are all great. But the fact is, when I can only hunt on THIS day at THIS time, on THIS property and my stand is in THIS spot, all that stuff is pretty irrelevant. It's that or go home and go back to bed.


Personally I don't worry too much about the wind, because generally I can't do anything about it. That and the fact that I've shot deer when I down right stunk. So bad I was offeneding myself. [:'(]

(not to mention nearly getting run over by one once when I was taking a leak)

More importantly, and to your question.. NO. I don't move my stand. It don't move, and even if it did, there's no where to move it to.