I would like your guy's opinion on a setup I have that I may or may not want to use with the wrong wind. I'm currently hunting the north side of a bedding area. I set up on the north side because the wind is predominantly from the south for the early season and my smell is blown out into the corn field. However, I also have a blind set up in a big cedar tree that is between two bedding areas and faces to the south. I cut out a "cave" and set the blind back in the tree. My hope is that on a north wind, the tree and blind will effectively block the wind and keep scent from blowing where I don't want it to go. Any thoughts? Sent from my VS500 using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
If the bedding or where I expect the deer to come from is downwind of a stand I won't hunt it. I always try to keep my stands to the east of travel paths because the wind almost always comes from West at some angle and allows me the most days of favorable wind.
I suppose that stop is an unrealistic hope. Maybe I was just wondering if the tree and blind together might retard scent from traveling as far or as strongly when compared to the openness of a tree stand. I usually avoid a stand that has the wrong wind but I set this blind thinking of one bedding area and realized later that they could be coming from the other direction just as easily. My current location is both good and bad for almost any wind direction. It all just depends on where the deer decided to bed down for the day which is a guess. I will probably end up moving it to a location that better allows for playing the wind. but the setup in the tree just looks so darn nice. Thanks for the input. Sent from my VS500 using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
