They cost me a nice buck this afternoon. Set up a new stand yesterday on the edge of a grown up cut over, between a doe bed and buck beds. 5:10 I hear a deer coming check the winds, and I was good, catch a visual of a good rack, check the wind again and its blowin' right to him now. Didnt take him but a minute to figure out something was up and he turned around and went right back to his bed. Had him at 70 yds and closing. How do you guys take a swirling wind, I mean do you stay and hunt it out, or leave to not risk it being contaminated with human stink? I know hes in there now I just have to capitalize but dont wanna screw it up.
MANY times, swirling winds are unavoidable, but they can be avoided sometimes, too. Try to hunt on tops of ridges, or low in flat areas that get consistent winds. I leave when my wind swirls. Good luck!
I just try to hunt the "pevailing wind" and make the best of it. It's quite hilly where I hunt and the wind will do things you think it couldn't do. It switchs up often. I try to hunt high whenever possible though.
Wish I could use terrain to my advantage here, but there is none to use, all flat land around my property, no ridges or hills what so ever. Ill stick to the prevailing winds for now and see what happens.
