scent blowing into bedding

[fishlips]

This may have been posted already but has anyone intentionally let their scent blow into a bedding area? This is in a swampy terrain and i can get about 150 yards upwind the bed and then do a big loop to get downwind of the bed and setup. By doing that I would lessen the chance that the deer would use half the primary exit routes but fear it would just lock the deer down until after dark.

Just curious if anyone has had any observations good or bad from it.

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[dan]

Many years ago when me and Andrae used to hunt together I let him hunt a farm I was hunting where the buck was in a certain bedding area and would not come out far enough in daylight to kill. One day he walked right along the up wind side of the bedding and jumped the buck to his feet then looped a big circle and jumped in a pre set stand on the down wind side and shot the buck less than 30 minutes after waking him up.

[Jeff G]

Last week dan and I were hunting a small bedding area. Dan set up down wind of the bedding. I was going to do a little nudge and bump the bucks to dan. I was upwind of the bedding area. Before I even entered the woods/transition dan told me the deer were on their feet and moving. The scent stream alone got them out of the beds and moving.

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[fishlips]

Interesting. Do you ever see it where they just hold steady? I was thinking of doing this in the middle of the day and then setting up to catch them as they exit their beds at the end of the day.

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[dan]

Interesting. Do you ever see it where they just hold steady? I was thinking of doing this in the middle of the day and then setting up to catch them as they exit their beds at the end of the day.

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Yes... I have walked past bedding and seen bucks sneak out later. Every buck is different though...

[hunter_mike]

Awesome!

[fishlips]

Thanks for the insight. Sounds like it's worth a shot.

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[cedarsavage]

I would think you'd be better off getting setup and have your buddy walk past the bedding in case he gets up and leaves right away. Soft bump. There was an article in traditional bowhunter a few years ago where he would still hunt with a crosswind one direction than come back the other way further downwind. It said he had killed quite a few whitetails on public in pa with trad gear doing this.

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