PredatorTC wrote:I didn't want to post to this because my list is huge. Dewey, I would say milkweed as well, but I'm just at the beginning stages of using them and its a huge eye opener. There is one spot that I used to hunt often because trail cameras and spotting always showed action on a west wind. When I sat there, I never saw a thing. [glow=red]Then I realized that with milkweeds when everything was calm, at prime time, the cooling of the swamp would pull the scent in the complete opposite direction.[/glow] The wind was so faint that you could not feel it on your face or by dropping a leaf. Milkweed however, did show it. There have been many other morning and evening spots similar to this that I am starting to notice. Its crazy.
The biggest thing is probably the hard work and persistence part of it. With both hard work and persistence, things start to fall into place.
This is an awesome tip. I used this trick to cheat the wind on the first muzzleloader buck I killed this year. The wind was predicted dead wrong for that spot, but I entered from the swamp which was sucking the early morning air in the opposite direction and I knew that by the time the morning breeze picked up, the thermals would be pulling the air up over the thicket. I had half a dozen does less than 50 yards downwind of me at one point and never got busted, and I smelled like bigfoot's armpit.
I think learning how deer use the wind and how we can 'cheat' the wind are two of the most important things outside of knowing where to be to catch a buck on his feet during daylight.
