high winds and deer hunting

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I have a chance to go out tomorrow morning and try to fill my deer tag, but the weather man prognosis is winds up to 35km/hr,
should i bother at all? looks like windy weather for next few days :(
 
I actually got my a doe this year on one of the windiest days of the fall. It doesn't help you hear them coming, but it does help them not hear you.

I can't say i have enough experience to say i've noticed it personally, but i've heard people say that when it's windy they tend to keep to more open fields and such, that when it's windy they can't rely on their sense of smell and hearing, so they like to be able to see trouble coming.
 
I'd rather hunt with too much wind than to little. It covers up the sound of a lot of mistakes I usually make. Snapping twigs etc.

The deer don't like high winds, but its rut, and all bets are off.

Just go out and hunt.
 
I remember a few years back I was hunting down south in the porcupine hills where you can get crazy Chinook winds on some days. The winds were blowing in from the west and were unbelievable and I wasn't seeing much but what the heck your out hunting so its all good! I was working my way up one of the sharp ridges and stopped at one point and took a peak over the leeward edge of the ridge and just below me not more then 20-30 meters away out of the wind were 3 mule deers bedded down. There were all does and I was looking for a buck but they never heard me or even winded me and I quietly headed on my way and they were none the wiser.
 
guy329 said:
I'd rather hunt with too much wind than to little. It covers up the sound of a lot of mistakes I usually make. Snapping twigs etc.

The deer don't like high winds, but its rut, and all bets are off.

Just go out and hunt.
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I agree with this.
In my experience they'll spend more time laying down, so if you hike you might come up on them laying in the bush or on the side of a hill.
Lots of times they won't hear you coming in the wind and you can come up closer to where the wind deflection of your shot won't really matter.
 
High wind is the worst time to be deer hunting, but it is better than staying at home... if you can go, go...
 
i agree on any day in field being better the one on a couch, the fact that rut is on does make me want to go, guess i’ll leave the tree stand home and just scout/still hunt for few hours (last time i tried tree stand in windy weather i got motion sickness, don’t want to repeat that)
 
the largest mule deer I have harvested was an extremely close range shot , on an extremely windy day.
I'd have to check the tags and pics to see if it was remembrance day 05 or 06..... I think '06 but the whole bc interior got hammered hard that day. Sustained winds that were taking trees down continuously all day and into the evening. Chainsaw was mandatory just to exit the back country. I got my deer at dusk and the only safe place to spend the night was in the middle of a gravel pit in the front seat of my little jimmy.

I would not hesitate to hunt on very windy days, just pay attention to what could fall from the trees if you are in the forest.
 
Wind doesn't always lock them tight, especially during the rut. Day before yesterday was a good example. Hurricane winds with a front moving in and the deer were out moving hard.

I know if I couldn't hear predators sneaking up on me because of wind, I'd rather be where I could see them.
 
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