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Post by omegabuck on Dec 19, 2009 15:00:55 GMT -5
Question on beating or dealing with a swirling wind. West side of the lease is standard type wind ... rarely swirls. Where I'm hunting however, is another story entirely.
I'm wondering if I should try to hunt the lower ground ... or if I should try to hunt the higher ground?
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Post by oldfarmsblueman on Dec 19, 2009 17:23:49 GMT -5
Good luck ;D I hunt in places where we just live with it.
At my Son's place the wind will change many times.Sometimes
just a little and other times 180 deg.If on foot just change
direction.If in a tree hope your high enough.I'm sure there
are places the wind swirls less but I haven't found one.I
always keep a bottle of powdered wind checker in my pocket
and use it all the time.Just remember deer don't always
go into the wind.
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Post by horizontalhunter on Dec 19, 2009 20:05:45 GMT -5
Good luck ;D I hunt in places where we just live with it. At my Son's place the wind will change many times.Sometimes just a little and other times 180 deg.If on foot just change direction.If in a tree hope your high enough.I'm sure there are places the wind swirls less but I haven't found one.I always keep a bottle of powdered wind checker in my pocket and use it all the time. Just remember deer don't always
go into the wind. I think that this happens more often than we think. Of course, if we keep shooting all the stupid deer they don't get to pass on their genes and we are just making it harder on our selves. ;DLOL Bob |
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Post by tedicast on Dec 20, 2009 9:02:07 GMT -5
We have the same problems in a lot of the place we hunt too. It just makes it all the more critical to really, really buckle down on scent control. Even under the best conditions, we are no match for a deers nose, so anything you can do to tilt the odds a little means a lot.
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Post by Greg Krause on Dec 20, 2009 15:50:00 GMT -5
Be super careful with scent control and get as high as you can in the tree
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Post by nkybuck on Dec 21, 2009 7:33:08 GMT -5
Be super careful with scent control and get as high as you can in the tree I second this the higher the better when scent is your main concern. Remember to always consider th angle the arrow is going to go through the deer when you get over 20'. |
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Post by omegabuck on Dec 21, 2009 17:27:26 GMT -5
I'm pretty careful (as much as a Human can b e anyway) regarding scent. I'm at 15' on one stand, and 16' on the other. I had a Deer under me the other day, looked up at me a couple times, didn't ever get spooked, kept eating Carrots, that is until they were gone. LOL
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