WTNUT
5 year old buck +
You have to love the outdoor writers that write about the wind. "Only hunt a stand when the wind is right". "If the wind shifts and you are in the stand, get down and leave that stand". You know you have seen more of them. Well SOME of that stuff works in flat lands. I will even say a lot of that stuff works in flat land. Throw in hills, valleys, mountains and river bottoms between two ridges and all bets are off. This afternoon the weather called for a west wind. I decided to hunt a river bottom stand on the east side of a hillside. The stand was on the edge of the river (think shallow river that you and deer can cross) with the hillside to the west and a five acre plot of brassicas on the east with switchgrass and tall sorghum screens to the east of that. The river is at about 800 feet and the ridge top to the west is at about 1,450.
Well, the wind was suppose to blow from west to east and the deer were suppose to come off the hill to my west and cross the river to the food plot. The wind did blow. It blew from the north, from the south, from the east, from the northwest, from the southwest, BUT NEVER ONCE FROM THE WEST! Did it bother me? No that is generally how it goes in hill country. All you can do is be as scent free as possible and stick in the stand. If I got out of my stand every time the wind was coming from the wrong direction all I would do is get up in my stand and get back down in maybe 30 minutes at best!
Wind, go to love it. P.S. No I did not get winded today. Luck maybe.
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Well, the wind was suppose to blow from west to east and the deer were suppose to come off the hill to my west and cross the river to the food plot. The wind did blow. It blew from the north, from the south, from the east, from the northwest, from the southwest, BUT NEVER ONCE FROM THE WEST! Did it bother me? No that is generally how it goes in hill country. All you can do is be as scent free as possible and stick in the stand. If I got out of my stand every time the wind was coming from the wrong direction all I would do is get up in my stand and get back down in maybe 30 minutes at best!
Wind, go to love it. P.S. No I did not get winded today. Luck maybe.
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