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ElkNutz 10-12-2009 05:16 PM

Upwind into the wind downwind is where all the bucks come from.

StraightArrowNY 10-12-2009 05:18 PM


Originally Posted by 1shotkill1993 (Post 3471375)
If the wind is in your face, your looking downwind.

No.... In your face = upwind.... At your back = Downwind.

Just like a river. If you're swimming with the current your swimming downstream. If you're swimming against the current, you're swimming upstream.

I think those instructions are meant to get the product's scent to the deer before your scent gets to the deer. That's why you should put one on either side of your scent cone if you're hunting a trail downwind of your stand location.

WV Hunter 10-12-2009 05:35 PM


Originally Posted by StraightArrowNY (Post 3471428)
No.... In your face = upwind.... At your back = Downwind.

Just like a river. If you're swimming with the current your swimming downstream. If you're swimming against the current, you're swimming upstream.

That's exactly right.

1shotkill1993....if the wind is hitting you in the face....you are sitting downwind, not looking downwind. The river analogy makes it easy to understand.

Unfortunately where I hunt, I'm all around wind. Dang wind is never steady in one direction unless its blowing about 15-20. :mad:

solocamcan 10-12-2009 06:03 PM


Originally Posted by 1shotkill1993 (Post 3471375)
If the wind is in your face, your looking downwind.


Wrong.....

BigDaddy12t 10-12-2009 06:29 PM


Originally Posted by WV Hunter (Post 3471457)
That's exactly right.

1shotkill1993....if the wind is hitting you in the face....you are sitting downwind, not looking downwind. The river analogy makes it easy to understand.

Unfortunately where I hunt, I'm all around wind. Dang wind is never steady in one direction unless its blowing about 15-20. :mad:

I feel your pain, my hunting spot is bordered on 2 sides by a river, 1/4 of my land is an oveergrown gravel pit.

NY Bowhunter 10-13-2009 02:48 AM

Yeah but did you know all rivers and streams travel downstream from south to north except for the mississippi? Just something else for you to consider

Muliefever 10-13-2009 04:33 AM

Okay let me get nautical on you;)
If the wind is blowing this way it is winward
>>>>>>>(face)
On the other side it is leeward
(face)>>>>>>>>

crokit 10-13-2009 04:43 AM


Originally Posted by ElkNutz (Post 3471426)
Upwind into the wind downwind is where all the bucks come from.





LMAO!!:rolleye0011::rolleye0011:

bigbucks98 10-13-2009 05:11 AM

ever heard the saying "big bucks show up downwind"?? downwind is when the wind is either at your face or back and blowing straight toward your target (sumthing that you obviously need to try and avoid lol) as for upwind when the wind is in your face your looking upwind...

1shotkill1993 10-13-2009 05:28 AM

Oops guys I'm sorry. I misread the question. Now I under stand.

If the wind is in your face, your looking upwind.

If the wind is in your back, your looking downwind.


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