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Re: SERIOUS QUESTON ABOUT HUNTING THE WIND
[Re: FurFlyin]
#435508
10/29/12 12:15 PM
10/29/12 12:15 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 24,832
Buc-ee’s Beach Express
leroycnbucks
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 24,832
Buc-ee’s Beach Express
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I wouldn't hunt in this wind today. Daggumit! I much prefer to hunt in a 10-15 mph sustained wind than the normal 1-3 mile per hour swirling wind we normally have. On days like this, I slip in closer to the bedding areas than I would normally go. The wind helps cover any noise. The deer are still going to move. I've killed some of my best bucks on windy days. I don't doubt that at all in the hills and hollers of sand mountain but in flat swamp land in MGM county your gonna get busted. Besides the wind yesterday and today it's just to cold for my almost fifty year old butt.
Proud Army and ALNG veteran
God Bless America!
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Re: SERIOUS QUESTON ABOUT HUNTING THE WIND
[Re: arKic]
#435518
10/29/12 12:26 PM
10/29/12 12:26 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 5,391
Cleburne County
NortonZ7
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 5,391
Cleburne County
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A big 4 1/2 year old plus buck is going to come in to a food source down wind. He is old for a reason!! No matter how munch $ you spend on scent lock clothes and cover ups a 5 1/2 year old is gonna wind you in Alabama.people watch too much of those hunting shows on TV from out west. I have hunted all over the USA and Canada! Killing a big buck here is the hardest thing to do as a hunter!Let all those TV stars come to my club and hunt a season.They will be headed back out west or up north with their tail tucked between thier legs!!!!And all of the real hunters on Aldeer know that! A lot of pro hunters could kill good deer anywhere. They have the experience, time, and money to do so. The guys that kill boomers every single year could kill deer here. A booner out west is just about as hard to kill as a good deer here. I agree that some of them would tuck tail and hit the road though. We will never know though, cause they won't come here and hunt and I don't blame them. Hunting the Midwest is so much fun! They don't hunt here because they need footage, you can work a week in the Heartland and have more footage than you would ever get in a month in Alabama... I talked to Stan Potts about this and he said the SE is too damn hard!! LOL!!! Yeap, exactly right. Most all of our footage comes from the Midwest.
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Re: SERIOUS QUESTON ABOUT HUNTING THE WIND
[Re: PEA_RIDGE]
#435579
10/29/12 01:54 PM
10/29/12 01:54 PM
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Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 5,002
Covington County
Squeaky
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 5,002
Covington County
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I could get all the footage needed for making a hunting show right here in Alabama. The reality of the matter is most folks don't care to watch our type of hunting. I hunt some of the best property this state has to offer for seeing large numbers of deer and some pretty intense rutting action. The problem is, the deer I see aren't the quality of bucks most will see in the Midwest. However, by my standards they are nice quality bucks for the area. I will have to admit the land I hunt is similar to the Midwest with crops, woodlots, fingers and thickets. It makes for good hunting, lots of deer seen and a very visible rut.
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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Re: SERIOUS QUESTON ABOUT HUNTING THE WIND
[Re: PEA_RIDGE]
#435689
10/29/12 04:26 PM
10/29/12 04:26 PM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,753
bessemer, al
hunterturf
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 8,753
bessemer, al
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Not sure why people would pay $ for a lease, $ for seed and fert, $ on hunting equipment and completely ignore the #1 thing that will blow your hunt before it begins....scent control!!! From mild to wild it does nothing but help your chances of seeing deer, and more importantly, not to educate every deer on your property of when you are there. I bet everyone here sights their gun or bow in to the 10th degree and checks it often. Why do that if your approach to hunting is ill hope for the best and maybe the wind will blow in my favor, but if not, ill go where I had pictures of a good buck and cross my fingers....to each his own but it only helps. Now that I have said all of this, someone will kill a 200" deer wearing clothes he cut firewood in all day, smoking a cigarette, that came in downwind. 
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers..........
Si Robertson
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Re: SERIOUS QUESTON ABOUT HUNTING THE WIND
[Re: hunterturf]
#435723
10/29/12 05:11 PM
10/29/12 05:11 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 5,391
Cleburne County
NortonZ7
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 5,391
Cleburne County
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Not sure why people would pay $ for a lease, $ for seed and fert, $ on hunting equipment and completely ignore the #1 thing that will blow your hunt before it begins....scent control!!! From mild to wild it does nothing but help your chances of seeing deer, and more importantly, not to educate every deer on your property of when you are there. I bet everyone here sights their gun or bow in to the 10th degree and checks it often. Why do that if your approach to hunting is ill hope for the best and maybe the wind will blow in my favor, but if not, ill go where I had pictures of a good buck and cross my fingers....to each his own but it only helps. Now that I have said all of this, someone will kill a 200" deer wearing clothes he cut firewood in all day, smoking a cigarette, that came in downwind. Only if he's paralyzed his sensory organs lol
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