Do deer always travel with the wind in their face?

[Izzy]

Deer never do anything all the time.

[Onestringer]

Nope just like everyone else, they pretty much go where they want

[rnharris]

no but coyotes do  

[DeerSpotter]

I just got back from hunting and I was in a tree stand 21 ft. off the ground,(I always carry a box Kleenex when I go that high for my nosebleeds)    

And she offered me a shot at 30 yd. in the same vicinity, but it was 6:50, not enough light for sure ID on the shot.  So I let that one walk, and another one came up a smaller doe same area, did not smell my scent with the East wind blowing writing to them, I was in the woods, and they can see pretty far, because I saw them come in for 50 or 75 yd.

So I don't know if that scent lock stuff is all cracked up to what they say it is, I'm sure it works on the confidence of some of the people, but I've been on teens since I was 10 years old and I have never used scent lock clothing.  Just good old hunting strategies.


Carl

[BobW]

only if the lead one has gas

[JDinPA]

Originally posted by Jeff Strubberg:
Of course not.

If they did, they would all be on the east coast by now...

LOL

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Originally posted by Terry Green:
West coast Jeff...west coast.   :D  

Maybe they're taking the long way. Deer can swim ya know.    

[Kevin Bahr]

HA!  You're onto me, Jeff.  
One rule of thumb when it comes to deer hunting:  when you least expect it, expect it.

Although I wish deer did always walk into the wind, that way when it was swirling all around like it usually is where I'm hunting, they'd just keep walking circles around me.  I might eventually kill one then...

[jonesy]

no

[trapdoor]

Kevin--LoL @ scent lock clothes--(good one)-And amen to that rule of thumb.
       Years ago Gene Wensel did a whole chapter on this subject in that classic book "One Man's Whitetail"--It put a lot of things in perspective for me.
  In my own exprience, I've also noticed in some areas where I hunt, a lot of bucks will travel cross wind, as the rut is heating up, and actually create thin little trails cutting directly across a lot of the major doe trails in the area. These are not necessarily the same trails that run paralel to the doe trails. These other thin little buck trails cut directly across the doe trails.-I've deemed them "cut trails" a few years back, in a small article I wrote about a buck that I was able to kill on one of them. I look for these "cut trails" any time I hunt a new area.  I'm sure most hunters notice them, and just refer to them as another buck trail. I like to categorize them in my own mind, so that I can distinguish them, from the paralel buck trails. The bucks will hound-dog these "cut trails", and scent check the doe trails as they cross them. At the same time they are also checking the cross wind.--When they hit a hot doe trail, they take it. ---Don McKellar