2. Map Your Area and Understand Your ScentDrift
Getting out of your stand and quietly searching for the deer’s newly marked territory is crucial.
Start by marking your area in the HuntWise app. Based on different pins, you can see where to hunt day by day and even throughout the day.
These marked pins will compare wind by location, telling you where the wind is blowing in your favor and how your scent will blow with the ScentDrift feature in the app.
ScentDrift even allows you to customize wind direction, plugging in your ideal direction to better gauge the way your scent will blow. This is a very quick and easy way to determine where you want to take on the wind for any particular day.
3. Understand Pressure Within Your Area
Barometric pressure and wind often go hand in hand.
For example, when the wind blows sideways, the air pressure also goes up and down. Additionally, the barometric pressure of the woods rises as the day warms and falls as the day cools off. Therefore, hunting during the high-pressure point of the morning and the low-pressure point of the evening will provide you with the most optimal deer activity.
You can see barometric pressure within the HuntWise app’s daily deep dive. Using this feature allows you to easily and effectively compare the wind direction and the barometric pressure to utilize your time the best.
Use HuntWise for Hunting in the Wind
At the end of a day in the field, it is all about putting the odds in your favor. If you thoroughly understand the wind direction, are comfortable being on the ground versus the stand, have your areas mapped on the HuntWise app, and do everything possible to control your scent against the vast winds, the odds will go up of having great success landing a monster whitetail.
With HuntWise, hunters don’t have to skip a day in the field simply because it’s windy. You can use the wind to your advantage with our WindCast feature, giving you an advantage over other hunters every season.
WindCast tells you the precise locations of prime hunting spots based on the wind conditions of your chosen hunt day. It also helps you understand your ScentDrift so animals don’t smell you before you’re in the ideal hunting spot for the day.
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Content updated September 5, 2023.
