How many of ya'll stay out of your best spots, due to swirling winds, early in the season? There's a couple spots that i've been dying to go, but the wind has not been steady enough, and the last thing i want to do, is blow out deer and burn the stand out. Some stands i wait until the rut to hunt.

Since when is this only a early season problem?

Yea, i hear ya, but latter in the season, it seems to lock in a little better, although those mountains are always going to be tough to hunt.

I've never paid any attention to it.

I hear ya, unless I'm out on top of the plateau or the wind is at a high , steady clip I've bout got to where I just go hunting. I hunt a lot of hub and spoke set ups where deer can come from several directions. Wind in Upper Alabama will make ya crazy.

Yep. I hunt flat swamp land. Deer can and do come from all directions at our place too. Today, I saw 3 deer to my left and a hour later a young buck walks under me from my right. I don't worry about the wind where I hunt.

Swirling October winds (and the fact that the woods in Alabama look like Cambodia during the month of October) are what has kept me from bow hunting the past 5-6 years.

In my experience, if you have a mature deer that you are on and you try to bow hunt him (at least during bow season), there are just too many variables and moving parts for me to want to chance it again and risk blowing him out of the area. Once a older deer feels the heat....he's gone.

I know that there are those that do and are successful at it. I just never have been.

I'm doing this today.

I just hunt other folks spots

Wed. evening i went to a spot that was perfect for a NE wind. Settled into my stand, and started to notice the wind was hitting me behind the right ear, which means a SE wind. Gotta luv it.

I will try and hunt places that are good for whatever the wind is supposed to be, but in the majority of places where I hunt, they can come in from anywhere. This ain't the midwest where you know exactly where they are coming from. Also, I don't think just b/c a deer catches a whiff of you during a hunt it means he won't ever show up around there again. They get whiffs of non-human danger in the woods all the time, doesn't mean they disappear from that area...heck I'm not even sure they know they are smelling a human or even know what the heck a human is, it's just a non-regular smell to them. They have short memories and little pea brains...danger equals flee for a deer at that given moment in time. Now if you have 10 hunters stomping around a property at hours of daylight multiple days a week, then yeah, it will make a difference.