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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 29, 2015 18:17:24 GMT -5
Anybody still hunt ground blinds with unfavorable winds?
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Post by esshup on Sept 29, 2015 21:55:26 GMT -5
You can fool a deer's eyes and sometimes it's ears, but never it's nose.
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Post by weeman on Sept 30, 2015 1:49:25 GMT -5
Wind is trump. I'd still rather be lucky.
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 30, 2015 1:55:23 GMT -5
Anybody still hunt ground blinds with unfavorable winds? Do you mean unfavorable as in upwind or wind with excessive speeds? |
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Post by windingwinds on Sept 30, 2015 11:19:21 GMT -5
I set up my blinds against what wind tends to blow.....they have a solid side. But I can block the other sides if needed to help with a changing wind. Would I hunt in a blind if it was a bad direction that would blow my scent into the deer? Not if I can't block it at least somewhat. I guess it'd depend on blind location and design.
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Post by esshup on Sept 30, 2015 12:54:13 GMT -5
Since I can't see my scent, if there's a chance that the wind will be going from me to where the deer walk or stand as they go past my blind I won't hunt that blind/stand.
I was busted once by an older doe, and for the next 3 weeks every time she went past the stand she did a big detour around it - more than 50 yds away. I put an end to that during muzzleloader season. She would lead the whole group of deer in a wide berth around the stand. Lesson learned. The older the deer, the longer they remember.
N/NE/E wind screws me from using a tree stand at the food plot. I'm setting up and brushing in a ground blind to the W/SW of the food plot today.
Even with solid walls on the ground blind I won't take a chance that the wind won't suck my scent up and out of the blind thru the top, or out one of the shooting windows. There's no way that my scent can be completely contained inside the blind, and stay there for as long as I'm hunting from it.
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Post by dbd870 on Sept 30, 2015 14:03:30 GMT -5
Yeah while the North wind doesn't hurt on a couple places it pretty well keeps me off of 1 place in Brown Co. I would have done the mornings there this weekend but I won't risk it - especially as they are moving good there now.
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Post by onebentarrow on Sept 30, 2015 14:55:47 GMT -5
I have another question on ground blinds. When you set up your blind do you leave the window/s you are going to shoot out of open when you leave. The reason I ask this is I would think that when a deer gets use to walking past a brown camouflaged blind and then you set there with the window open and there is all of a sudden a big black spot where there did not use to be that it would catch there attention and make them some what more wary. I have always left my windows open so I do not have a comparison to test to. Just wondering what you all have noticed or will now notice because of this question.
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 30, 2015 20:14:27 GMT -5
Anybody still hunt ground blinds with unfavorable winds? Do you mean unfavorable as in upwind or wind with excessive speeds? I mean with the wind will be blowing at the back of the blind and out into the field you're watching |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 30, 2015 20:17:08 GMT -5
I have another question on ground blinds. When you set up your blind do you leave the window/s you are going to shoot out of open when you leave. The reason I ask this is I would think that when a deer gets use to walking past a brown camouflaged blind and then you set there with the window open and there is all of a sudden a big black spot where there did not use to be that it would catch there attention and make them some what more wary. I have always left my windows open so I do not have a comparison to test to. Just wondering what you all have noticed or will now notice because of this question. Onebentarrow I always leave my windows open. Helps with preventing wind damage as well. |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 30, 2015 20:18:27 GMT -5
Reason why I am asking is that with the NNE winds predicted tomorrow I will be pretty much screwed. I have locations in the timber that will be fine for the wind angle but, I am saving those areas for the pre-rut/rut.
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 30, 2015 20:21:11 GMT -5
Do you mean unfavorable as in upwind or wind with excessive speeds? I mean with the wind will be blowing at the back of the blind and out into the field you're watching OK.. Yes I have and have had them come from front or back but I also hunt on the ground or sitting against a tree with the same results. But my thought is always if I don't see them then I guess I don't know if they smelled me and turned around first or not |
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Post by nfalls116 on Sept 30, 2015 20:22:57 GMT -5
I have another question on ground blinds. When you set up your blind do you leave the window/s you are going to shoot out of open when you leave. The reason I ask this is I would think that when a deer gets use to walking past a brown camouflaged blind and then you set there with the window open and there is all of a sudden a big black spot where there did not use to be that it would catch there attention and make them some what more wary. I have always left my windows open so I do not have a comparison to test to. Just wondering what you all have noticed or will now notice because of this question. Onebentarrow I always leave my windows open. Helps with preventing wind damage as well.  |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Sept 30, 2015 20:24:04 GMT -5
I have access to another 20 acre parcel that would actually do good with the predicted wind. But i have not hung a stand on the property yet. I suppose I can try and make time for that tomorrow morning. We'll see.
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Post by bullseye69 on Sept 30, 2015 20:25:51 GMT -5
On my ground blind I leave at least one open to get any smells out that are left behind from when
I was in it last or at least most of it.
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Post by bartiks on Oct 3, 2015 11:00:44 GMT -5
OK.. Yes I have and have had them come from front or back but I also hunt on the ground or sitting against a tree with the same results. But my thought is always if I don't see them then I guess I don't know if they smelled me and turned around first or not Agreed, it's hard to tell what the wind will do where I sit. I think it just kind of swirls all around which is definitely not good. I need a tree stand but I feel I am to close to the road and if I put one up it will be directly in the line of sight for the deer coming down off the hill toward my blind. But whenever the setup is right it's magic, maybe an 8 yd shot and that is adding in a yard or two. |
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