Another Opinion Question

Grzyadms4x4 · Post by **Grzyadms4x4** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:17 pm

I was wondering what most of you think about wind. How windy is too windy to run dogs as far as scent is concerned? What part does moisture play into it? I always figured that if there was recent precipitation that the wind won't blow the scent away as easily as it would in very low humidity? What do you all think. Thanks.

Mr.pacojack · Post by **Mr.pacojack** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:53 pm

Wind will affect a cat more than any other weather , cats use their eyes and ears more than their noses so when the wind is blowing and you cant hear anything, the trees,brush and grasses are moving the cats usualy are not moving. But I have always said what makes sence to us and the way we think a animal should act is always overpowered by hunger

Grzyadms4x4 · Post by **Grzyadms4x4** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:09 pm

Thanks for the info Mr. P. How much does wind affect the tracking of dogs, and how windy is to windy for them to successfully track?

Calkins · Post by **Calkins** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:44 am

I don't think it effects coon hunting much. Idk I've always done decent hunting on windy nights. I just don't like the wind because it sometimes makes it hard to hear the dogs.

Jake Bess · Post by **Jake Bess** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:17 pm

I would think that the moisture would make it even worse in the wind because the wind usually drys thing out in doing that the sent will evaporate with the moisture. I have cought lions in conditions that I thought I would never cacth them in and have run lions in conditions that what I thought were good and not cought them your dogs will let you know. I think we all waste time thinking of things that arent as importent as others and should consitrate on the things that matter most like how to tell you wife your going hunting agian.

Tom White · Post by **Tom White** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 1:20 am

Wind doesn"t bother the dogs trailing a lion on the dirt.We have trailed em in 40 mile per hr winds . Moist ground when hit by the sun in this country will take away the scent within a half hr.

nmplott · Post by **nmplott** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 4:13 am

Jake Bess wrote: I think we all waste time thinking of things that arent as importent as others and should consitrate on the things that matter most like how to tell you wife your going hunting agian.

That sums it up for the most part. for most of us its the thrill of the hunt