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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 4537627" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Some of the time, the wind will have a near steady, sustained direction and velocity. This is the time you can really "hunt the wind" and use it to your advantage. It also seems to be the wind conditions deer prefer most for moving. But other circumstances (other than the wind) typically contribute more to deer movement, or lack thereof.</p><p></p><p>More of the time, the wind will constantly be changing directions, </p><p>making it very difficult to plan your hunting, based on any presumed wind direction.</p><p>You can see this by simply sitting around a campfire, and note how often you need to move from one side of the fire to the other, to escape the smoke.</p><p></p><p>Most days, my best method of dealing with the wind has been these two things:</p><p></p><p>1) Be as scent-free as possible ---- go to extremes in reducing your human/foreign scent to your hunting area.</p><p></p><p>2) Hunt from as elevated a position as is reasonably possible wherever you hunt.</p><p>------- Often, your scent will blow over or above close-by deer, and will be more diluted by the time it gets to more distant deer. You will never totally eliminate your human and foreign scents, but deer will tolerate (without being alarmed) up to a certain level. That tolerance level is lower with older deer, higher with younger deer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 4537627, member: 1409"] Some of the time, the wind will have a near steady, sustained direction and velocity. This is the time you can really "hunt the wind" and use it to your advantage. It also seems to be the wind conditions deer prefer most for moving. But other circumstances (other than the wind) typically contribute more to deer movement, or lack thereof. More of the time, the wind will constantly be changing directions, making it very difficult to plan your hunting, based on any presumed wind direction. You can see this by simply sitting around a campfire, and note how often you need to move from one side of the fire to the other, to escape the smoke. Most days, my best method of dealing with the wind has been these two things: 1) Be as scent-free as possible ---- go to extremes in reducing your human/foreign scent to your hunting area. 2) Hunt from as elevated a position as is reasonably possible wherever you hunt. ------- Often, your scent will blow over or above close-by deer, and will be more diluted by the time it gets to more distant deer. You will never totally eliminate your human and foreign scents, but deer will tolerate (without being alarmed) up to a certain level. That tolerance level is lower with older deer, higher with younger deer. [/QUOTE]
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