Okay I wanted to use this for another topic but here goes. How do you play the wind in your favor when you don't know which way the deer are coming? I hear people all the time you want the wind to shoot west to north or east to west. How do you really know when deer just come from any direction.
BAM!
I have been debating this with one of the guys I agreed to let add a bow stand on my ranch. The guy is super nice and I was like, "sure.. you can add a couple stands... just maintain the corn and build them a certain way so they add value."
Well, he starts going, "I need to add 2-3 stands per feeder, so I can hunt in a certain one depending on the wind"
I was like, "wait a second... this area can support a bow OR a rifle.. i.e. set it up as a rifle stand and add a bow stand up closer to the feeder. Don't add 3 stands, as you will block the rifle stand.."
He seemed irritated and Iw as like, "wait.. what if the wind changes direction while you are in "a" stand?"
I just don't get it.. maybe I have been doing this wrong all my life. I wear jeans.. white t-shirts at times... I fart in my stand.. yea! I damn well said it! I do! I mask my scent by making one worse than me! hell yea!
What in the hell am I doing wrong? I mean.. sure.. I have all the deer meat I want.. but mfg.. do we really need THREE stands in case you do not want some damn deer to SMELL you?
Seriously. I told him to hunt a bow stand I set up. It is 30yards MAX from the feeder and smack dab "in the open" but backed up to a tree and he claims he did not see a thing because they could see him move. I was like, "well, tell that to the two guys that each shot one within 30 minutes of sitting in the stupid thing the day before.
I don't understand why people go to such great lengths to "bow hunt"
ok.. /rant off..
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