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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: bhammac on October 28, 2023, 01:35:42 PM

Title: Blacktail Stand Placement
Post by: bhammac on October 28, 2023, 01:35:42 PM: Hunting a bench that drops 100' down into a big flat valley, has lots of ravines/drainages. Put a stand in the bottom of one these ravines and benches but feel I always get winded.

Should I be placing my stand up on the benches at trail crossings? Close to their bedding, etc? Due to access, some of the spots in the transition zones on where I would really like to put stand are always upwind of the timber I know the deer are in or I can't get into the area as quiet because of private bordering land I don't have permission to hunt.

Any help on general do's and don'ts of stand placement regarding terrain, bedding, etc would be great.
Title: Re: Blacktail Stand Placement
Post by: ASHQUACK on October 28, 2023, 01:45:47 PM: Not sure where you're hunting. But, my stand is on a travel route to food from bedding. That said I have a prevailing wind that blows my scent into the travel lane. I can only hunt it a couple times a year or use a good scent cover and or an ozone generator. I have had decent luck with them. I do feel that blacktail are more accustomed to human scent then we believe, but better safe than sorry. I'm hunting pretty flat terrain an no real elevation changes that hamper my height scenario.
Title: Re: Blacktail Stand Placement
Post by: brokentrail on October 28, 2023, 02:07:38 PM: I'd worry less about getting in quiet and just get in earlier so it can all calm down and worry more about having the wind in my face while being able to see what I want to hunt.

I have a spot I hunt that takes a direct east wind which for my location doesn't seen to be very common. Prevailing here seems to be south/southwest. I won't hunt that spot without the east wind as I'll get winded but that location has been successful numerous times.