{"id":3147,"date":"2020-08-31T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorsportsnation.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2020-08-31T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:09:08","slug":"checking-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorsportsnation.com\/checking-the-wind\/pentecostkyle12\/hunting\/08\/31\/2020\/3147\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"
When you are headed into the deer woods for the start of bow season in a month, chances are you will have taken some scent control measures before you walk to your stand. You might use a scent killing spray or have changed into your camo in the parking lot. I also like to shower with scent-free soap and brush my teeth with an unscented toothpaste. Whatever scent control measures you do take (or if you don’t take any), you will still need to pay attention to the wind. A bad wind blowing across you and heading straight to the bedding area can cause even the most scent conscious hunter to get busted. At the end of the day, no matter how many scent-free products we use, we will still smell like a human every time we breathe.<\/p>\n
Since we can’t escape odor, we must learn to figure out where our odor is going at all times. Some very successful hunters use little to no scent control products, but still kill mature deer by reading the wind and setting up accordingly. To understand the wind and how it carries our scent we need to be able to detect its direction at different times throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Wind Indicators<\/strong><\/p>\n There are many different ways to read the wind. On some properties, you may know exactly what direction the prevailing wind travels. When a strong wind blows, it is easy to read because the nearby trees will show the direction as the branches blow. Essentially, we don’t need to be worried about trying to read a wind of 30mph or greater\u2014it will be obvious. The more subtle winds of less than 30 miles per hour are trickier to read. Thermals, especially, which occur in the morning and evening are typically less than 10 miles per hour and result in many hunters being busted by deer every year. There are a couple of great (and inexpensive) methods that you should be employing to accurately read the wind.<\/p>\n My Take<\/strong><\/p>\n I have been using a standard wind indicator bottle filled with powder up until this year. However, after doing some experiments, I will be switching to a combination of milkweed and vapor cartridges this year. There are too many times when I could tell the wind was changing, but my powder indicator didn’t show me much. I am curious to see just how the thermals of certain properties affect the wind direction in the evening. While all of this may sound tedious, investing in a good wind indicator you trust is likely money that is well spent\u2014especially when compared to the cost of scent-free sprays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you are headed into the deer woods for the start of bow season in a month, chances are you will have taken some scent control measures before you walk to your stand. You might use a scent killing spray or have changed into your camo in the parking lot. I also like to shower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[151,242,298],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[127],"suggestedReferences":[],"includedReferences":["https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dead-Down-Wind-Detector\/dp\/B0060CSIB0"],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[]},"yoast_head":"\n\n