CamoCop

checking the wind is just another precaution to take in hopes of stacking the odds in your favor. no matter how scent free you are, you will never eliminate ALL odors. besides i read somewhere that a black bears nose is 7 times better than a blood hound....if that tells you anything.

uncle matt

Well I don't think any thread about the wind would be complete without saying this.

You can check the wind all you want. The best you will come up with (especially in the woods) is a prevailing wind direction.

Everyone has seen all the evidence you'll ever need sitting around a campfire. As the smoke rolls off the fire you see how the wind will roll and switch around pretty regularly.

I pay attention to the wind when hunting because I prefer to keep my eyes a bit more into the wind.

PY Antlers

Call me what you want and say what you want about me, but washing your clothes in scent free soap and spraying down with scent killer and you don't know what checking the wind means?!! OMG That's the first thing I learned 40 years ago.....

Jimmy S

Hunting (checking) the wind is paramount. Keeping yourself as scent free as possible won't mean squat if you're not always aware of the wind. Hunt the wind and keep all your scent free stuff at home...yes, that's always been my opinion.

Any deer will pick up your scent if he's downwind of you no matter how hard you try to fool his nose.

iSnipe

Yeah, yeah, LOL! I knew after reading what I posted that didn't quite sound like I wanted it to.

To postscript to my original post...

If I knew the wind direction during the specific moment the deer were coming in and I saw they were headed for my pre-determined downwind scent stream... "I would hold my breath not to expose myself to my location."... as an added precaution to help reduce any odors that may be headed their way. LOL!

iSnipe

iSnipe

You just don't get it. You missed the point. When a Moderator gives you advice, I'd look into what he's trying to say.

No one is calling you anything.

iSnipe

Jeff Ovington

Yep, playing the wind is important.I don't always follow the rule but I do believe it works in your favor.
I do my best to make my self as human odorless as possible
and use my scent glands.But As I hunt, I sweat, I eat , I...and the list goes on.If I worried about my I odour I gave off I wouldn't be hunting I be bathing.So yeah I play the wind as much as I can.I know when wind prevails, it goes up the mountain in the morn and down the mountain at night.These are the factors I focus on.In morn Im high walking down ,night Im at the bottem walking up, I watch cloud movment.But if I see a fresh monster track that goes out the window,and I'm on him no matter where the wind is going.I have lost more than I have won when I do this but I have gotten some pretty impressive trophies doing this as well.

Gunplummer

I don't think that the most important sense to a deer during gun season is his nose. I have found it to be their eyesight when the leaves are down. The wind is important sometimes and I admit I will let it dictate to me where I hunt. As far as scent killers, what a waste of money. My opinion.

Valentine

Every hunter has a right to his own theories.

And he'll change it, soon enough, if he's not harvesting deer.

WisconsinBowHunter

I have been hunting for three years now and i just learnd about the wind this year, and the first thing i learned was that you want to kill a deer. so OMG isnt really needed becuase it is not at all surprising