How I hunt the wind
07-20-2008 | 09:28 PM
#62
Giant Nontypical
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From: Central Minnesota
RE: How I hunt the wind
ORIGINAL: gri22ly
If you love to hunt like I do, staying at home is not an option, you'll have a stand for any and every situation
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
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.
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.
07-20-2008 | 10:08 PM
#63
Typical Buck
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From: Panhandle of Texas
RE: How I hunt the wind
Great advice about the degrees and such....and you are right that even if you do use scent killer, deer can and will detect you if the wind is just perfect for them, but I have had plenty of deer directly down wind of me, and they never detected me. So tosay it doesn't work at allwould be false.
Either that or I just don't stink as much as the rest of you.
07-21-2008 | 06:14 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: How I hunt the wind
I wish I had large parcels that I could move around in when the wind wasn't exactly right for a particular stand. I've hunted Rob's spots and had deer come from two totally separate directions when i was sitting in the stand by his food plot.
But a man hunting a small parcel.......IMO doesn't have the luxury of being able to move around as much as some. This thread is a little surprising in that sense.
Someone had a wonderful point way back on page 1. What about getting to and from your stands? If you're hunting small acreages......you're GONNA have to take some liberties.....sometimes.....or you're gonna have to be disciplined enough to stay out. One or the other......there isn't a choice. I've got numerous stand locations....because I have plenty of climb-able trees (to hunt the fringes). Of the +/- 100 acres I hunt, though....I have 6-7 REALLY good stand sites, though.....that can be accessed/hunted with a favorable wind. I would imagine that number decreases as the number of hunt-able acres does, though.
But a man hunting a small parcel.......IMO doesn't have the luxury of being able to move around as much as some. This thread is a little surprising in that sense.
Someone had a wonderful point way back on page 1. What about getting to and from your stands? If you're hunting small acreages......you're GONNA have to take some liberties.....sometimes.....or you're gonna have to be disciplined enough to stay out. One or the other......there isn't a choice. I've got numerous stand locations....because I have plenty of climb-able trees (to hunt the fringes). Of the +/- 100 acres I hunt, though....I have 6-7 REALLY good stand sites, though.....that can be accessed/hunted with a favorable wind. I would imagine that number decreases as the number of hunt-able acres does, though.
07-21-2008 | 08:23 AM
#68
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From: Southeast, Va
RE: How I hunt the wind
I spray religiously before and whilst Im in the stand. Wind is important, but if it starts swirling and changing, what am I gonna do?? So I spray, what's it gonna hurt. I have to ask Greg with all due respect, why not spray down?? What could possibly be the harm in it??
07-21-2008 | 08:28 AM
#69
Giant Nontypical
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From: PA
RE: How I hunt the wind
ORIGINAL: Vabowman
I spray religiously before and whilst Im in the stand. Wind is important, but if it starts swirling and changing, what am I gonna do?? So I spray, what's it gonna hurt. I have to ask Greg with all due respect, why not spray down?? What could possibly be the harm in it??
I spray religiously before and whilst Im in the stand. Wind is important, but if it starts swirling and changing, what am I gonna do?? So I spray, what's it gonna hurt. I have to ask Greg with all due respect, why not spray down?? What could possibly be the harm in it??
07-21-2008 | 08:33 AM
#70
Boone & Crockett
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From: Hughesville, PA USA
RE: How I hunt the wind
ORIGINAL: bawanajim
What makes you think this spray works any better than say Scent- Loc?[:-]
ORIGINAL: Vabowman
I spray religiously before and whilst Im in the stand. Wind is important, but if it starts swirling and changing, what am I gonna do?? So I spray, what's it gonna hurt. I have to ask Greg with all due respect, why not spray down?? What could possibly be the harm in it??
I spray religiously before and whilst Im in the stand. Wind is important, but if it starts swirling and changing, what am I gonna do?? So I spray, what's it gonna hurt. I have to ask Greg with all due respect, why not spray down?? What could possibly be the harm in it??