I've hunted for 43 years and I've never heard of a thermal hub.i thought I heard and Saw everything during my hunting career.thank you guys.never too old to learn something new.
My neighbor has a thermal hub. He lets me hunt it exclusively. There are 5 points the bucks bed on. It’s impossible to get in there. I’m like Dan…. I get cocky every single year thinking I can beat it. I will tell from years of experience that I cannot. The way the terrain is and the only real way to hunt it as described here, is on the other neighbors property. He has that “mouth” where it lowers and widens out. But he hunts it, so…. Better luck for me next time I guess. Side note, this year was the first year I have not been tempted to go in knowing what I know after years of getting my tail whooped in there!
Try an extreme scent control regimen, and hunting abnormally high in the tree, 30+ feet, usually a saddle or climber is necessary, and arrive before the deer, 2+ hours before daylight, makes for a long day, but it works
Watching this thermal hub talk made an 💡go off in my head! Not sure how effective it may or may not be, I mean I’m typing this after it jump in, but a kids bubble machine that puts off 6 million bubbles in 35 seconds might be a good way to learn this during off season. You could learn a bunch in 5 minutes watching those 100 bubbles move around on thermals and wind
I'm a public land hunter, but I have access to 40 acres of private property that borders public land to the north. The area has an excellent deer population. The problem is it's the perfect thermal hub. It's basically one long hollow running SW to NE, with perfect draws at both ends. If I hunt the ridges on the east or west side of the hollow in the afternoons, the thermals take my scent down into the hollow and it gets distributed either direction according to the prevailing wind. Within minutes my scent is moving up/down the hollow and the dispersing E/W at the downwind draw. 100 yards west of the hollow is a road. Deer rarely come from there. On the east side, there is 1000 acres of private land, and that's where the deer bed. They have little motivation to come toward the road, but add in the thermals factor, and I've killed exactly TWO good bucks there in 20 years. It's a puzzle I cannot solve.
I hunt a spot that had a monster 14+ pointer and a basket 8. I go to hunt today and there was a gut pile 30 yrds from my blind with a monster pecker pointing up. So the other guy shot the bigun,would you say it's worth hunting still or will the heavy coyote pressure ruin the spot?
Can you guys touch on how to hunt areas like North Carolina or in mountain country? The wind is hardly ever consistent here and it is very difficult to pattern them on public land around here.
@@dannydef14ateate I’d be real interested to see how someone like Dan Infalt would hunt areas that I hunt as they are truly remote and is brutal terrain where the big deer typically stay
@@dannydef14ateate thank God they made it illegal west of orange county because I couldn’t deal with that crap. The only thing I really have to worry about are the dove hunters that spray the woods down with bird shot
Yes but depends on wind. You have to windcheck it in the fall. Summer wont work. Wind currents are different with the leaves on the trees. I like to hunt up a hill from a hub on sign exiting the hub. I get better winds on the upper sides and I just wait for them to come my way.
Escape routes,entrance routes,travel routes..don’t go in his bedroom.use other hunters to your advantage..all these mountain Guys are watching hunting beast and every other UA-cam guru and learning the same Tactics..you should Watch these videos too so you can understand what your competition is doing..but don’t believe this is gospel
I've hunted for 43 years and I've never heard of a thermal hub.i thought I heard and Saw everything during my hunting career.thank you guys.never too old to learn something new.
Dan infalt is the best at helping us understand the wind
My neighbor has a thermal hub. He lets me hunt it exclusively. There are 5 points the bucks bed on. It’s impossible to get in there. I’m like Dan…. I get cocky every single year thinking I can beat it. I will tell from years of experience that I cannot. The way the terrain is and the only real way to hunt it as described here, is on the other neighbors property. He has that “mouth” where it lowers and widens out. But he hunts it, so…. Better luck for me next time I guess.
Side note, this year was the first year I have not been tempted to go in knowing what I know after years of getting my tail whooped in there!
Try an extreme scent control regimen, and hunting abnormally high in the tree, 30+ feet, usually a saddle or climber is necessary, and arrive before the deer, 2+ hours before daylight, makes for a long day, but it works
Watching this thermal hub talk made an 💡go off in my head! Not sure how effective it may or may not be, I mean I’m typing this after it jump in, but a kids bubble machine that puts off 6 million bubbles in 35 seconds might be a good way to learn this during off season. You could learn a bunch in 5 minutes watching those 100 bubbles move around on thermals and wind
I'm a public land hunter, but I have access to 40 acres of private property that borders public land to the north. The area has an excellent deer population. The problem is it's the perfect thermal hub. It's basically one long hollow running SW to NE, with perfect draws at both ends. If I hunt the ridges on the east or west side of the hollow in the afternoons, the thermals take my scent down into the hollow and it gets distributed either direction according to the prevailing wind. Within minutes my scent is moving up/down the hollow and the dispersing E/W at the downwind draw. 100 yards west of the hollow is a road. Deer rarely come from there. On the east side, there is 1000 acres of private land, and that's where the deer bed. They have little motivation to come toward the road, but add in the thermals factor, and I've killed exactly TWO good bucks there in 20 years. It's a puzzle I cannot solve.
Eberhart could hunt right in the middle with his super scent suit and magic spray.
Now that’s funny! Time stand still when John enters the woods!
Thanks for answering my question!
I prefer to Windcheck hubs in fall as the currents are different with leaves on in the summer and the wind will flow different usually.
Imagine the wind being water. It curves, sucks and flows against the turns and curves and obstructions
Show a couple examples on a topographic map please
I just have to say, I've never in my life seen so many bow hunters in the woods at my rd side hot spots, EVER
Same here in Illinois hell I'm seeing them hunting the restricted areas,kinda like mushroom season,Anything Goes I guess.
Why not just stay up high closer to the bedding/cutouts so you can keep a consistent wind direction and set up accordingly?
I won't go into the bottoms it's either on top or nothing and that is after pre wind scouting
I hunt a spot that had a monster 14+ pointer and a basket 8. I go to hunt today and there was a gut pile 30 yrds from my blind with a monster pecker pointing up. So the other guy shot the bigun,would you say it's worth hunting still or will the heavy coyote pressure ruin the spot?
Lol wym monster pecker
Can you guys touch on how to hunt areas like North Carolina or in mountain country? The wind is hardly ever consistent here and it is very difficult to pattern them on public land around here.
@@dannydef14ateate western nc
@@dannydef14ateate I’d be real interested to see how someone like Dan Infalt would hunt areas that I hunt as they are truly remote and is brutal terrain where the big deer typically stay
@@dannydef14ateate thank God they made it illegal west of orange county because I couldn’t deal with that crap. The only thing I really have to worry about are the dove hunters that spray the woods down with bird shot
@@dannydef14ateate I actually think it’s illegal to deer hunt with dogs in all of NC now
Would it be possible to sit at the top of one of the parallel draws on the side of one of the points?
Yes but depends on wind. You have to windcheck it in the fall. Summer wont work. Wind currents are different with the leaves on the trees. I like to hunt up a hill from a hub on sign exiting the hub. I get better winds on the upper sides and I just wait for them to come my way.
Escape routes,entrance routes,travel routes..don’t go in his bedroom.use other hunters to your advantage..all these mountain
Guys are watching hunting beast and every other UA-cam guru and learning the same
Tactics..you should
Watch these videos too so you can understand what your competition is doing..but don’t believe this is gospel