Dan wrote:
Deer travel from bedding to food without regard to wind direction. However, when you need to hunt much farther back, than you would like, or when your dealing with a certain buck that moves very little in daylight, sometimes waiting for the day he can smell whats ahead of him will get him moving a little earlier, a little farther from his bed.
........ I thought they bedded in a certain bed based on the wind that day, and knowing where they were going to feed that evening. This buck Stan shot seemed to bed there all the time, regardless of wind. The water hole portions of Hill country dvd specifically say you guys dont hunt the water hole till you have a just off wind.
There are some instances when bucks bed based on wind direction, and there are some beds that are used on any wind. In hill country "most" beds are based on wind, and setting up above the beds ( up wind ) is the norm if you want to be successful. I can't speak for Stan, but I believe this was the type of bed where the buck bedded on any wind, or at least on the wind he was killed on... If you read back posts on my discussions about wind based beds, and "off winds" you will see what I am saying has not changed... We probably should stat a "wind" thread though, cause I have seen a lot of confusion on this topic...
So, a buck bed based on wind and the direction he travels when he rises are 2 different things, correct? I am assuming wind is more imortant while he's bedding than when he travels in the evening. Also, traveling with the wind at his back in the morning allows the buck to smell if something is trailing him? Are these assumptions the norm?