How to hunt a wind switch?

  • bradg
    Posts: 507
    #201839

    Done with work at 1:30 today. After that, I can be found on the water or in the woods. Heading out this afternoon with the bow. Here is my question: How do you guys hunt the wind when it is going to be at SW when I get there at 2:30. Between 5:00 and 6:00 it will be W. Then right around sunset, it will pull around to NW.

    The area where I am going to be is a small woods on the edge of a large ravine with water and bedding areas to the east. Bedding to the North that is not my property Food plots to the South, and Freshly combined corn to the West. I have Stands on the west edge of woods on the field edge, in the center of the woods south of a main trail about 20-25 yards, and on the South edge about 50 yards inside the woods near where a main trail splits in 2 different directions.

    Any ideas would help a lot!

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    #89674

    I would say your best bet is to try to get the deer coming from the north bedding area heading to the south food plot. With stands on the west edge of the woods and deer coming from the east bedding area might be a little risky. Although it all depends to on where the deer trails come out to that corn field vs where you have your tree stands on the field edge. If the trails come out directly under your stand then I would say don’t hunt there, but if they are north or south of the tree stands then you might be alright. Wind direction can be tricky and it sounds like you might have a swirling wind which sucks to try and hunt. This time of year though you MIGHT be able to get away with hunting a little bit up wind…the bucks have one thing on there mind and maybe some doe in heat scent could be the ticket for you! Good luck!

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