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Do a wind check and test at different times of day. Mornings, afternoons, just before sunset. Build a scent map of how wind moves through the terrain you hunt. Mark areas that consistently swirl or shift vertically.
Combine that with topo lines and your mapping apps slope imagery. Mark benches, saddles, thermal hubs. Wherever terrain tightens or drops steeply, you’ve got potential scent traps.
By staying undetectable across these sensory domains, you make it harder for the deer’s sensory gating systems to register you as a threat, which increases your chances of success in the field.
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