Good post MN.

Guy's,
There's a lot of good information being discussed here, however, the main jist of my post was to show that it is important to break down the range of wind in degrees that are huntable. Doing so adds another level of precision to help you accomplish your goals. Another tool to help avoid making mistakes.

I understand what you saying but you'd never be able to hunt this particular parcel at all then.

I also believe in "doing what you gotta do".

I've learned that sometimes the best stand to hunt in a bad wind is no stand at all. Stay home if the wind isn't favorable whether your using scent eliminating products or not.

Rob, How wide is your funnel? Could you maybe block part of it off with limbs or brush to guide the deer to where you could hunt from an edge?

Shultzy, that is exactly what I do. It makes no sense trying to hunt an animal that you are forcasting your presense to. Wait for a better day.

Thats a very good post Greg, I kind of do the same thing except, I look at the local doppler for my area, then think about were to hunt as I drive to the woods. I also go through a scent regiment, which includescentkillers. Knowledge of how scent particles work is priceless while trapping and deer hunting. Scent particles are left behind as you walk trough the woods, themore time you spend in an area, the more particles you leave behind. With scent killers, scent lock, ect. The level of scent particles you leave behindaremuch more tolerable to wildlife and fade away quicker. Deer have been forced to tolerate a certain amount of human oder, he may think he is at a safe distance while your drawing backfrom 30 yards away.

No you couldn't block it. To my east, upwind is my food plot in amoungst a crp field that is roughly 80 yards wide. Beyond that, corn or beans depending on the year. Behind me is the main woodlot(downwind) but I'm in the corner. Years (25) of watching and patterning these deer have me in the tree I'm in and placed my plot where it's placed. The hedge row that joins the two woodlots (the other being small and the beddding area which I also have a stand up against which would be the far end of the funnel and I hunt it when the winds right BUT, the deer come from 360 degrees around you). The entire funnel (small woodlots, corn/beans, hedgerow emcompasses 100's of yards in reality. The deer focus/funnel down the CRP that my stand overlooks BUT, again the deer can and do come/go from any directions at any given time. The predominant wind direction comes from west/ southwest and blows my scent through the corner of the woodlot and out over a back corn/bean field from which the deer could come from. Mostly they come from/to the bedding area to my right/ N/W.

I think this stand comes down to what Greg said.

The 3.5 year old I put in the 04 contest came from that back cornfield. I heard him walking in the woodlot behind me, directly down wind. I called him into the crp field and shot him. I've had them come from the, from my left, from my right, from downwind and upwind. They wonder through that exact area thusly why the stand hangs where it does. Scent control is a must for this stand IMO.

I'll try to get an aerial up to show the example.

I also hunt hill's, hollows and bluffs. In some situation, the wind is much more predictable. One particular spot I hunt, The wind can come from a wide range of degrees from SW to W and always dose the same thing when it comes up the hollow or around the bluff.