Hunting Teacher
Senior Member
Bryan T alluded to this in another post earlier and I wanted to get some other opinions too.
On all the hunting shows and most deer hunting magazines constantly reinforce the notion of hunting the wind to not alert deer.
Where I hunt, I see deer come from different directions almost every time I hunt a stand. They follow no set pattern. One time four deer may feed in from the east, the next time two may pass by from the south, sometimes on the same stand deer may pass one way then the other in less than two hours apart. Often I have deer feed in circles around me if I'm hunting in a bottom. On top of that, the wind is constantly swirling around. There is no possible way to hunt the wind.
Do you try to hunt the wind? If so where do you hunt in Georgia that you can?
Also, how about the notion of getting to your stand without scaring any deer or going near where deer may be feeding, bedding, walking etc. That is absolutely impossible on our property unless you stand on highway 46 out in front of our land and wait for one to cross the road.
Maybe it works up north or in the midwest, but I honestly don't see how it's possible in the pines and bottoms of Georgia.
Teach
On all the hunting shows and most deer hunting magazines constantly reinforce the notion of hunting the wind to not alert deer.
Where I hunt, I see deer come from different directions almost every time I hunt a stand. They follow no set pattern. One time four deer may feed in from the east, the next time two may pass by from the south, sometimes on the same stand deer may pass one way then the other in less than two hours apart. Often I have deer feed in circles around me if I'm hunting in a bottom. On top of that, the wind is constantly swirling around. There is no possible way to hunt the wind.
Do you try to hunt the wind? If so where do you hunt in Georgia that you can?
Also, how about the notion of getting to your stand without scaring any deer or going near where deer may be feeding, bedding, walking etc. That is absolutely impossible on our property unless you stand on highway 46 out in front of our land and wait for one to cross the road.
Maybe it works up north or in the midwest, but I honestly don't see how it's possible in the pines and bottoms of Georgia.
Teach
The deer in the pines where I hunt have no real set trails; they just sort of meander through the pines as they browse for food and make their way to the fields that surround the pines.
