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<blockquote data-quote="Headhunter" data-source="post: 5197732" data-attributes="member: 652"><p>how do you do that? Most any hunting situation, heck tell me one, that you know which direction, which trail, etc. just exactly where a mature buck will approach from and then you can set up to be downwind from him as he approaches. I will bet the "proverbial farm" you will be wrong the majority of the time and when you set up to "hunt the wind" the buck approaches from "where he is not supposed to" and you are busted or he busts you and you never know it. I know there are times that, especially stalking, that you can really use the wind, hunting from a stand or on the ground (unless you are inside a shooting house of some type, I may one day, but I have almost never hunted from a shooting house or pop up blind and don't care to, to me it takes some much of the "hunting" away, not against it, I just like being in the elements) but hunting from a spot and staying put for hours, the majority of the time trying to "hunt the wind" is useless. Good for those who try, but I cannot even remember the number of times I have been told that if you there with a particular wind, not only will you not kill a deer, but most likely you will not see one, only to go hunt the spot in the WRONG wind and see tons of deer, kill deer, and sometimes kill a great buck. </p><p></p><p>I don't care who you are, how many deer or huge bucks you have killed, no one is smarter than the deer or knows exactly what they will do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Headhunter, post: 5197732, member: 652"] how do you do that? Most any hunting situation, heck tell me one, that you know which direction, which trail, etc. just exactly where a mature buck will approach from and then you can set up to be downwind from him as he approaches. I will bet the "proverbial farm" you will be wrong the majority of the time and when you set up to "hunt the wind" the buck approaches from "where he is not supposed to" and you are busted or he busts you and you never know it. I know there are times that, especially stalking, that you can really use the wind, hunting from a stand or on the ground (unless you are inside a shooting house of some type, I may one day, but I have almost never hunted from a shooting house or pop up blind and don't care to, to me it takes some much of the "hunting" away, not against it, I just like being in the elements) but hunting from a spot and staying put for hours, the majority of the time trying to "hunt the wind" is useless. Good for those who try, but I cannot even remember the number of times I have been told that if you there with a particular wind, not only will you not kill a deer, but most likely you will not see one, only to go hunt the spot in the WRONG wind and see tons of deer, kill deer, and sometimes kill a great buck. I don't care who you are, how many deer or huge bucks you have killed, no one is smarter than the deer or knows exactly what they will do. [/QUOTE]
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