Roost1, you almost got it right in that for the most part I don't pay attention to the wind there for the most part, can't remember paying attention anyway and while I am probably the worst deer hunter you will ever know of (that is a fact), I am probably one of the most persistent. If I think it will benefit me, I will use the wind, if the sign I am looking for is there, I am hunting it, whether some "expert" says you should or not. I am just stupid like that, of course I cannot even begin to count the number of deer I have killed or got a great opportunity to kill doing the wrong thing. Funny how that works. I am sure I have been busted by deer also by doing the wrong thing and never even knew about it, and of course have messed up and the deer for sure let me know it, but I do believe way to many overthink it. There is a reason why many times a brand new hunter kills a great buck or even a true giant. They don't think they know more than the deer.
I will agree that many over complicate things, especially those that think they know where the deer are going to go or or where they will come from. If I strictly played the wind, at least as I understand it is supposed to be done, many places I hunt would NEVER be hunted because there is almost never a right wind for those spots and I still have killed deer and some nice bucks out of those places that so many will say "you can't hunt there with this or that wind, deer will never come in that area if you are there, you HAVE to have a particular wind direction to hunt there, you can or can't hunt there in the morning of the evening due to wind currents, etc". Heck it is like food now, if you paid attention to everything you would almost never eat because everything causes cancer or something.
I would share my spots, but since the "experts" who hunt the wind probably would never hunt them (one place is in the bottom of a deep "bowl), I will keep them to myself.
