wabashbowhunt

with the wind coming mostly from the west will i ever be able to effectively hunt this stand? i cannot hunt the woods where the deer are buy i can hunt in the bean field and the fence row to the south. should i wait on a perfect day or buy scent lok and practice great scent control and hope for the best? i can hunt the 140 acres to the north of the highway but i found some nice sheds in the field and jumped 27 deer shed hunting the woods

lpv77

The winds never come out of the north? I also bet some deer will travel that hedge row back to the woods. what about hte woods on the other side?

wabashbowhunt

i can hunt the woods to the west also but i have not seen and sign....all the sign i have found is out of that corner where i have the stand...also directly behind the stand is railroad tracks....so the only good thing about the trax is it should give me pretty good quite access to the stand..

childers

the winds change with seasons

wabashbowhunt

im thinking the winds came from the south west last fall???

AR Bowhunter

I would choose the best dayan try it, you can not get him if you are not there.

grizzly_hackle36

I think I would wait for a low pressure system to arriveand see if I could get a North-to-South wind. Or that one day when it is just dead calm. From how far away can you watch that corner? If the deer are willing to move through there when the wind is out of the NW, I would think you are in luck. Do you have other areas to hunt, so you can save this stand for that one perfect day?

davidmil

I had a stand once I put up with about a month of the season left, and waitedthe rest of theseason to hunt it. It was strictly a morning stand and the wind was always wrong. I never hunted it but left it in place. The next season more of the same for about a month. Then one week we had a couple days with an East wind. I climbed in it and in two days in a row shot a buck. A couple weeks later a visitor came to hunt. The wind called for an East wind. I put him in it and he shot a bigger deer than the two I'd taken. The next year I never got that East wind when I could hunt. Sometimes you just got to wait and be patient. Somewhere along there you'll have a North or West/North/westerly wind. Then too, it's possible you could slip in quietly before sun up and catch something skirting the field coming back to the woods. You have to make sure no one else can hunt it and screw it up with a wrong wind too.

lil hammer

Yeah if the wind changes directions you's would be in the money and like lpv77 said what about the woods on the other side of the field

lil hammer

if the wind changed directions you'd be in the money and like lpv77 said what about the timber on the other side of the field