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When you're deciding when and where to hunt, what do you focus on the most? Weather forecast? Wind direction? Solunar data (i.e., the "best time" to hunt)?
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The wind dictates where I go for the most part. I don't pay attention to the moon or the minor or major feeding periods because I think its a bunch of bull.
I don't always hunt the line, but when I do, I make sure I'm close to my neighbor's 8 acre bean field.
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10 point
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1. When I have time.
2. Weather. Colder the better.
3. Wind direction. Once I decide to go, wind direction determines what stand I hunt.
4. Trail cam intel. Cellular trail cams help me know when bucks get more active in daylight hours.
Last edited by WildlifeBiologist; 12/27/17 12:11 PM.
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Booner
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wind direction tells me what stands are available. After that i use other factors to determine which of those stands I'll take.
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I go just about every afternoon on one of 3 properties I hunt. Don't do much morning hunting until the rut kicks in. I try to move around to spread out the pressure but the wind always determines the actual spot that I will hunt that day
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8 point
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My main three:
Wind Direction
Who's hunting around me and how their pressure will affect my location.
How long it has been since the particular area in general was hunted.
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The wind dictates where I go for the most part. I don't pay attention to the moon or the minor or major feeding periods because I think its a bunch of bull. Right here. Wind speed and direction. After I've satisfied that criteria I go where I have confidence in seeing a deer I want to kill.
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^^ What they said, about wind and direction.
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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Usually when its 3:00pm, i go to the shooting house. Other than that, its just whatever i decide to do.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Wind direction is the #1 factor for me.
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Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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Wind direction is the #1 factor for me.
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Wind direction narrows down the possibilities, then it's which of those areas are still available, then where I think my chances for seeing a shooter are best.
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My wife mostly, but after that. the wind and food sources.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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Wind is always the main factor for me. How much time i have comes in 2nd.
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Although 95% of my hunting is running and gunning elk, its pretty much the same choices as if I were deer hunting...
Wind/weather
Hunting pressure
solo hunt or buddy hunt
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Freak of Nature
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what times the soccer moms go for a walk by my stand....
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10 point
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Please explain this wind direction, sitting in the climber the other morning watched leaves blow N,S,E,W in a few hours and for cast called for an easterly blow and that was the direction it came from the least, where I was. Maybe it's better in y'alls world. For me when the wind is dominate from one direction it's usually to windy for me to go, but that's just me.
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Booner
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1. Fresh/hot sign
2. Trail cam
3. Wind
If deer sign is not there, I don�t hunt a spot period.
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Job 33:4
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Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
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Thats why i didnt say wind direction, getting it to blow in one direction up here is a pipe dream.
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