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Uncle Sam just sent me to the great white North. Where I hunt (Fort Drum military installation Bow only areas) the area gets absolutely pounded with people. The installation is 8255 acres with approximately 2700 of those acres open to bow hunting (no guns of any kind - ever). The same wooded areas I hunt get used year round for all kinds of hiking, military training and recreational activities. All of the deer are familiar with human scent and intrusion into their environment. I've picked the most remote, swampy, hard to access areas and figured, "I'll have that place to myself". Nope...treestands and trails. My point is that while I may be doing pretty good at scent control and entry/exit routes, the other 10 hunters within a reasonable radius of me may not be doing anything.
So two questions:
1. I can only control what I do, so what is the best way to capitalize on this type of scenario?
2. How do I practice scent control (mainly hunting the right wind direction) when I have no idea where the deer could be coming from? I've hunted the midwest (Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio) where there are somewhat predictable feeding, bedding areas and travel routes. However, here, there is no agriculture, but good food/browse and thick cover EVERYWHERE. I could limit my hunting setups only to places where the wind would blow out to a road or a building or something, but that would severely limit the areas I could hunt. I've setup in places this season where I was sure the deer would be coming from THAT way, but they came from THIS way due to pressure or some other reason. It's really tough to use the wind in this kind of scenario.
So two questions:
1. I can only control what I do, so what is the best way to capitalize on this type of scenario?
2. How do I practice scent control (mainly hunting the right wind direction) when I have no idea where the deer could be coming from? I've hunted the midwest (Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio) where there are somewhat predictable feeding, bedding areas and travel routes. However, here, there is no agriculture, but good food/browse and thick cover EVERYWHERE. I could limit my hunting setups only to places where the wind would blow out to a road or a building or something, but that would severely limit the areas I could hunt. I've setup in places this season where I was sure the deer would be coming from THAT way, but they came from THIS way due to pressure or some other reason. It's really tough to use the wind in this kind of scenario.