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Good Luck on him.....I wish I lived in WI......Packers and HUGE Whitetails.....my idea of Paridise!!

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Looks like a very nice three stand option from what I can see in the pic! Good luck tonight and hopefully we get anotehr good story.. downed buck or not!:D It also must be nice to have enough big bucks that you have the opportunity to pass on a 130 class deer.

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Greg your ariel map is great. looks like you know your area well. been doing your home work eh ? good luck on him.
Dan

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Motown, you are 100% correct with this statement. I know he is not the dominant buck of the area, and with patience, I'll probably see a couple that are and hopefully get a shot. What I've been seeing is a couple of 3 1/2s feeling their oats and bumping does that aren't ready yet. Pretty soon though!;)

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sweet greg, thanks for the sequence, good luck!

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GregH.......are you against field sprays or order eliminating material. I used to have problems with deer picking up my trail.

Don't want to turn this into an argument at all......

Ever since I've been spraying my boots with that e enzym spray and storing my boots in a white plastic back with leaves I haven't had a deer sniff the old foot prints.He may be hanging in your garage right now if ya would have used some sort of scent elimination.

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tschammel,

I don't have anything against scent control, if you think that it works for you, by all means go for it. Confidence in your setup is huge.

I was mainly throwing out grunting tips and pointing out that mature bucks sometimes will not cross your trail. Also, in case you missed it, I passed on this buck twice. He would nave been hanging in my garage long before he hit my trail.;)I saw him again tonight and watched as he walked by.

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Greg, it looks like you've got the handle on the technology here to answer my question, so you could you re-post that aerial pic with your entry and exit routes drawn in and labeled accordingly? Thanks.

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Greg / MO,

I've shown you the routes I am currently taking to my stands. Sometimes they change according to crop rotation. Right now the field I walk through is plowed. Stand 3 is my SW wind stand. Stand 2 is myW wind stand (sometimes SW). And stand 1 is my NE, NW, W and sometimes SW wind stand. Anything else, just ask.

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Thanks, Greg... I appreciate you taking the time to do that.

I am a bit confused by your wind directions, I guess... It seems as though every direction you've mentioned -- to me, from just looking at the map --would be totallyopposite of the direction you would need it for each of those stands... For example, stand 2 looks to be on the east side of that narrow funnel; a west wind would blow your scent across that little strip, while an east wind would blow it out across the empty field.

All the directions you mentioned for stand 1 would blow your scent straight to the buck bedding areas...

Maybe we're calling the same wind by two different names?