Hunter922
Senior Member
Deer moved good this morning, all the way to mid day when we got down..
I'm taking a tornado siren to the stand this weekend! Just ordered it through Amazon! I'm just kidding abd agree with you. I see more deer on cold windy mornings than I typically do. The windy afternoons I don't seem to see much movementMy experience is that they are extremely spooky and nervous with all the noise and movement. Usually see them hanging out in fields or openings during stong wind.
One of my best hunts in GA was when tornado sirens were going off, deer everywhere
It was a crazy day, not much moving, then it wind picked up, then the hail came down and sirens went off and in 30 minutes I saw 20 or so deer.I'm taking a tornado siren to the stand this weekend! Just ordered it through Amazon! I'm just kidding abd agree with you. I see more deer on cold windy mornings than I typically do. The windy afternoons I don't seem to see much movement
I hoping tomorrow morning will be on fire. I'm going to give it a go and see. Should be cold and slightly windyIt was a crazy day, not much moving, then it wind picked up, then the hail came down and sirens went off and in 30 minutes I saw 20 or so deer.
Boats do make it interesting in the wind. Have taken a few deer from a boat, going to take it out a couple times this week when our antlerless gun season comes in.I've killed some of my biggest bucks in high winds. I shot one a few years back with a buddy only hunting about 450 yards from me on the same gas line easement. He never heard the shot.
We hunted Allatoona WMA one year on a December hunt that after a late season tropical storm/hurricane. The morning started fine and we killed a couple of does. By afternoon, the wind had really picked up and by late evening, it got bad. After I watched the second tree fall and multiple limbs and tops come out, I decided that was enough.
We still had to cross the lake in a jonboat with 4 of us and the deer. Got pretty hairy with the waves and looking back, it was a really stupid thing to be doing.
Mid-west=windyI love hunting the wind see alot. Don't go to Kansas if you don't like wind.
In some of the thick places I hunt, deer will come from every direction and I've seen it. It's pointless to try to hunt the wind in places like that.This is bound to ruffle some feathers, but here goes...
All you ever hear is "wind, wind, wind", "blah, blah, blah"....The wind certainly CAN play a role in the success of your hunt, but it is NOT the end all be all that people make it out to be. Lots of times wind is used as an excuse for getting busted, or as the holy grail of success, to cap off a story where old Joe actually looked up from his nap and shot the Muy Grande because it sounds better.
It certainly will not keep me out of the woods if I want to go hunting and sit a spot I like.
A deer can see you, hear you, or smell you. You can get away with one of the three almost every time, but if you give him two, he's gone almost every time.
You can't fool his nose, and if you are in the SE United States, you can never depend on the wind to cooperate with the forecast. It dips, dives, and swirls, all over the place.
Sometimes a deer will smell you and just not even care. Sometimes you get busted before you even get outta the truck.
The only certainty, is that you will not kill a deer unless you are in the woods and hunting them.
There is not a deer in this state that hasn't smelled a human, and they do NOT leave the county if they get a whiff of you. Busted today, kill him tomorrow.
Just hunt and enjoy your time in the woods. For most folks, time is too limited to pass up a hunt because the wind is "wrong".
My Daddy used to say, you gotta be still, be quiet, and be THERE.
Happy Hunting!