I hate to even ask, but....
 

I was talking to guy at work the other day, and we were talking about hunting, but we couldnt agree on this. If you are sitting in a stand, and the wind is hitting you in the face, are you looking up wind, or down wind?

You would be looking upwind.

Ok, answer me this then. I just picked up some Trophy leafs, and it sais on the back, face down wind (so the wind would be at my back) Hang one leaf to your right, and one to your left,and one or two more "down wind" at your max shooting range. Wont the wind be blowing the scent of the Leafs in the opposite direction you are watching? And if you hang 2 leafs down wind at your max range, wouldnt you be shooting the same direction the wind is blowing? Oh, by the way, yes I did lose the argument with my buddy!

Good luck with this. I've seen the directions for scent-wick placement on the back of packages and I've wondered somewhat of the same thing myself. If you place the scent where it will move upwind, you're also placing your scent to travel with it. Best conclusion I could ever come up with is that you want to be beyond the trail enough so that the wind doesn't carry your scent onto the trail.

wind in face lookin upwind, wind at bak is downwind.

I've read those instructions as well. You'd have to be much more confidant in your scent control than I am.

Lol!! Upwind

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

so you dont want the deer on the upwind? not ...you dont want the deer in your downwind cause they can smell yer scent, you wanna be downwind from the deer, and hunt with the wind in yer face if ya will...you will be lookin upwind.

Ok,now I am really confused!

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

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.

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:

Wrong.....

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.

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

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)>>>>>>>>

LMAO!!:rolleye0011::rolleye0011:

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...

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.

There you go. If you are looking into the wind you are looking "Upwind". If the wind is hitting you on your back, you are looking "downwind".

Who told you that?You are telling me that all rivers except the Mississippi flows from south to the North? no sir, you are wrong... I believe the only river in the world that runs "backwards" is the Nile River in Africa....

Water falls downhill. If you are looking "up" toward where it is coming from (upstream), it is in your face. If you are looking "down" where it is going to (downstream), it is on your back. Same thing goes for wind.

This thread is commical.....rivers only run South to North except for the Mississippi??? Please tell me you know better than this!

Good freakin greif is all I have to say. You really don't know what downwind is?

Why worry, keep it simple. Wind in your face, wind at your back. Facing into the wind, or agian, wind at your back.

If the wind is in your face, you are looking into the wind. If the wind is at your back, your screwed.:p

If the wind is hitting you in the face you are looking upwind. The wind is coming down to you. Of course you want the deer upwind but if you hang your stand high enough HOPEFULLY YOUR scent will go over the deer and they will come in from down wind or from the side of what you have put out. Think about it, it makes no scense that if the wind is hitting you in the back of the head, your looking UP wind.

Good freakin grief is all I have to say, (BIG COUNTRY) I've read numerous posts by you and if you have nothing good to say PLEASE dont say it a all. You obviously already know everything so let others ask questions and learn without RUDE comments. Thank you.

I think the possible reason for these directions would be that most mature bucks will circle until they are approaching the scent as it is upwind of them...so with your directions I guess it would set you up with a shot in front of you if your introduced scent can beat out your human scent! It's the tricky thing with scents....

Wait, you're always Upwind or downwind of something right? My original answer was downwind. Now that i think if it though, if you're hunting something coming from behind you, you're upwind, if you expect it from in front, you're downwind.......right? Damn, I need a nap now from this one :)

you are correct....this is the solution, just place your stand smack dab in the middle of the woods and hunt....3 out of the 4 directions are unaffected...LOL:barmy:

i think he is what he aint recalling so well is that the mississippi river runs uphill at one point, this is cause the mouth of the river is higher than this small area,,,like a beer bong :sign0018:


:party::party:

Well, you answered this question. So does this mean your a know it all? Friend, I will say what I want, and do what I want.

Thank you

:barmy::s2: In the spirit of this thread I thought I'd add a little spice to it.

Actually one of my favorite smallmouth bass fisheries runs south to north. It's the New River whose headsprings are in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Boone, North Carolina. It runs north through Virginia and then into West Virginia. It joins up with the Gauley River in WV to form the Kanawha River which runs right by my house and feeds into the Ohio River. Despite its name, there is nothing new about the New River. In fact, the river is the oldest in the United States and second-oldest in the world.

Ok......had to clear that up.... Like almost everyone says, wind in the face means you're looking up wind, every thing behind you is downwind.

Thats not right. Wind in your face then you are obviously looking UPwind. Think of it this way, if you are DOWNwind of an apple pie you would smell it because the wind would carry it right to you, but if you are upwind of it, you'd never knew it was there.

Thats it!!

Shenandoah River in VA/WV...runs South to North as well. Maybe the south to north thing makes for good smallie fishin:guiness:

My final say on the wind is this:

If the wind is hitting you in the back - you aren't screwed....just turn around! :s3:

My head hurts after reading this post lol. Hopefully someone answered your question. best of luck

Another thing to consider is Burdock will only grow to the west of a maple tree and always to the south of poplars.