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Indian style. By doing so, one can learn to walk with silence.Avoid stepping on dead branches as they will break and makea noise; such a sound is unnatural and will cause deer to bealerted.

WIND

Since deer depend on their sense of smell for one measureof protection to the extent of forming inherent and establishedhabits, it behooves the bow hunter to pay a lot of attention towind directions and wind behavior.

We have morning winds, evening winds and prevailingwinds. During normal weather these winds have about thesame directions. There are atmospheric disturbances causedby thermal elevations and drift that are unpredictable. Windvelocities can be summed up as storms, gales, breezes, vari-ables and drifts. Storms may be denned as having velocitiesabove 50 miles per hour; gales from 20 to 40 miles; breezesfrom 10 to 20 miles and drifts up to 6 or 8 miles per hour.

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