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Folks - Relative rookie here, and I fear that I've been hunting the wind wrong. In the attached picture, I've been hunting a north wind, so that I can walk across the narrower field and reach my stand-marked in yellow, with the wind blowing in my face...hoping that the dear will come from further north, west or east...knowing that the deer do not hang out in the open field, so not being afraid that the deer will smell me in the field.
But it has occured to me that if it is a north wind, the deer may be cautious about even using that field (they enter these fields in the direction of the red arrows) because they cannot smell what is in it before they enter. Is that right, in which case, what IS the best wind to hunt this field...and say if it is a south wind or a west wind, which will blow the scent of the field into the woods...how do I place my stand so that it is along the red arrows without getting busted by the same wind that is carrying the smell from the fields?
But it has occured to me that if it is a north wind, the deer may be cautious about even using that field (they enter these fields in the direction of the red arrows) because they cannot smell what is in it before they enter. Is that right, in which case, what IS the best wind to hunt this field...and say if it is a south wind or a west wind, which will blow the scent of the field into the woods...how do I place my stand so that it is along the red arrows without getting busted by the same wind that is carrying the smell from the fields?