. Im a hunting beast fan. I learned why that stand works after killing out of it for two years. Definitly some good info on The Hunting Beast podcasts!
I'm sorry brother. The "thermal wind tunnel" theory was created by Jarrod Erdody, one of the Nextbuk guy's. They teamed up with Infalt several years ago to make the first "Hill country DVD", then soon after, they had a falling out. Dan continued to promote the idea as his own through the Hunting Beast...and I have no idea why, because buck's do not bed or travel in a "thermal wind tunnel", it's a lie. I like to refer to it as verbal pixie dust, lol.
Theories....aren’t all hunting strategies based on theories? Theoretically the wind is going to blow over the top of the hill and thermals will be rising or falling on the other side and something a little different is happening where the meet. Like a cans in a truck bed going down the high way will stay towards the front and even blow in the sliding rear window even though your driving forward, no?
Yes, and a few are correct and many are incorrect. I know how it's suppose to work...theoretically. But I've hunted big bucks in there bed rooms, in hill country my whole life and they don't bed in thermal wind tunnels....They do tend to bed on edges and oftentimes that edge is on the high side of terrain. Yes, that's mechanical turbulence.
I agree with you on where they bed, I’m just saying I tend to find trails in that area. Sometimes with rubs and scrapes, sometimes just doe trails. That stand I was talking about earlier seemed very similar to the ops set up, and I’ve never been busted in it and I believe it’s due to thermals. If I were on the opposite side of the trails, I think I’d be busted quite often.
I'm a simple man Josh. Just trying to boil this down. People talk thermal tunnels. I've read it all. So you are saying the thermals are no match for the wind right? The wind just pushes those thermals around and the landscape pushes it where it wants to go the rest of the way? Unlike the thermal tunnel talk about how the wind and thermals kind of are like opposite forces and a thermal tunnel is formed when they both combine. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
I bet if you look again, you'll find those trails, rub lines and scrapes are on an edge of some sort, within key features or connecting key features...terrain, structure, cover, food. Bedding, water. And are completely unrelated to "thermal wind tunnels".
The only constantly huntable thermals that I've found are falling thermals. When the wind dies down (and is no longer a factor), the temps start to drop and thermals start to drop. If there's much wind at all, wind trump's thermals...they go wherever wind, terrain, structure take them.
