Well, Kenny... Some may call me stupid...?? BUT!!!

I've always had good luck hunting in the wind!!!
I think a swirling wind, confuses them. They get a wiff... Then it's gone!! Can't tell exactly where it came from??
They seem to distrust their nose, and use their eyes more...

Just one old fart's opinion..... Good Luck!!!!

I like a steady wind 5-10 but you don't always get what ya want but sometimes ya get what ya need.   

I'll take it as long as not raining. Blood goes away real quick when it rains.

Well, we hunt mountain deer... The wind never blows the same way twice, LOL

We hunt from the ground. We walk the woodroads, and sit either above or below them.
(for the morning and evening thermals)  More times then not, ya get set down and the wind changes....

OK, after 2 1/2 days of rain, back at it.  Figured the deer would be ready to go, so got on stand at 12:13 pm and sat til dark, 6:30ish in the spot I was in. I leave when it gets too dark to pick a spot(for me) .

Wind was 20 -25 with higher gusts, I can attest to the higher gusts!! The deer were pretty jumpy, any stick that fell , they about jumped out of their skin!

Only saw one decent buck , a medium 8 point which would have gotten a pass had he gotten close enough. He was busy chasing a doe and she went back the other way.

Saw 4 spikes, a forky , 6 big does and a fawn (may need to thin the yotes?)

Just before dark , 3 big does and a fawn ran in from the East right under the stand. I waited , figuring something was chasing them, but they turned and ran back after a couple minutes. Guess they wanted to give him another chance...

As you can tell , I'm not as good at this as the other MO guys!  Heck ,they make it look so easy!

Pics in a bit from my phone , computer is better to type on, but phone is better to add pics from.

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I think you're way better than some of us. I can't buy a shot at a doe and it's always nice when a buck surprises you that you're not expecting.

I only know two things about deer, they always come from behind me , and I don't know anything about deer...

BTW I got skunked tonite ...

6 does and 2 fawns this morn , figured I'd see more as it was a comfy 45 and 14 mph wind

One doe with little fawn came thru at 12 yards but I gave her a free pass ...

Hard for me to shoot a doe with a fawn.  Especially a little fawn.

Yeah me too. There are plenty without fawns .

Went home , ate lunch , drank coffee, visited the hunters on the lease and back at it. Two years ago I killed a buck on Halloween , guess what stand I'm in ???

Snowed two years ago too ...

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Me thinks 'dere may be more to dis post!!!

Naw....Kenny don't shoot the little ones!
Tim B

Don't shoot the little ones with the best 12 days of the whole bow season coming up. Then the Orange Army takes over!!

Little is a relative term tho, since I've never killed a big one... LOL

Tonite's hunt, went in at 2:30 for a 4 hour sit.  Bumped two does about 20 yards from stand.  They just ran off without any snorting.

A little later a doe showed up behind me, you can hear em in the leaves again. I turned my head , maybe a little too quick and she busted me. She ran back about 40 yards and let me know how displeased she was .  Only one snort so I was good with that.


About 3:00 I heard walking behind me again, and could see antlers, so I eased to my feet.  Soon I could tell he was getting a free pass, young small racked deer...

He stopped and smelled where the 2 does had been bedded, and came right on , passing my ladder stand at about 10 feet in thick brush. Then proceeded out in field road, there he got a hint of something, prob where I climbed the ladder. Calmed down and crossed the field road into the planted oaks and brush. The pic was at about 18-20' from me.

Next a doe and fawn came from the left, crossed in front of me , easy shot that I didn't take.  In a minute I was kinda wishing I had, as she winded me a little and finally ran off blowing every jump.

In a bit a single doe showed up and she was looking. She also winded me and blew and took off.

Man this is getting monotonous , but the wind has died, and I'm hopin the thermals start sucking to the creek behind me.

A little later a big doe comes out of the planted trees what used to be downwind before the thermals started trying to work.  She comes up toward me like she is hunting me, but fails to get a nose full and turns and walks off in disgust.

Note to self- Don't hunt that wind  if its gonna die down before dark!

Note: The fluffs I dropped early in the hunt went about 6' and then went almost straight up out of sight, thought I was golden...

I've been known to just get out and leave.  I hate blowing a stand up like that.

Maybe a shower once a week would help ya?

I almost left but the wind was dying and had 30 minutes left when the snortfest happened . At that point I just stayed hoping the thermals would help and they did. Last doe couldn't get my scent.

Roy, that would double my water bill but I might try it. If it works for you it should work for me...