What's y'all's thoughts on wind affecting hog movements?

I like it when the wind is blowing. I stay down wind and even the sound does not carry as far. When it's windy in the dried corn fields critters can't hear a thing. I drive the down wind side scanning with thermal, then get out of truck to stalk and shoot when I see a critter that needs killing.

moonlit nights it helps sneakin up on them in open pasture or daytime hunting.... other than that id rather it be quiet so I can here were they are.

if it is too windy they might not move.
They cant hear, they cant smell and all the extra foliage movement means they cant see. That said I have shot one of my top five hogs on a somewhat windy night.

Ran out to my lease yesterday and checked my cameras. I've got a good boar coming in around 8:15 pm every evening for the last week or so. The forecast is for winds 10-20 mph w/gusts up to 25 from now till midnight. I know hogs are nomadic, here one day and gone the next. I think I'm going to pass on hunting tonight and try to put a arrow in him later in the week when the winds come down.

use wind to your advantage, yee haaa

Hogs move just fine when it is windy. I have shot a lot of hogs on windy nights and a couple of windy days. They don't just stop eating when it gets windy. They may alter their behavior and limit their travels to certain areas, but they aren't just going to stay home and not eat. If they are comfortable at your property/feeder and getting to your property/feeder, then the wind should not bother them.

I'm not sure wind affects their movement too much, but I prefer being able to hear them.

I'd rather hunt in wind, within reason, than a calm. I can work a wind, a calm will kill you with random unpredictable little gusts from any direction.

I have killed pigs in 20+mph winds and it always seems like you can get closer to them.

That's what the avg wind speed down here is gust 10-20mph out of south south east during summer, it just has not blown the hogs to me yet

I have put blood on the ground in almost every scenario you can imagine. I have come to the conclusion that you cannot pattern a Hog's movements and feeding habits. I document every aspect of a Killing session I think is necessary. I hit the fields 3-4 nights a week. 8 hours a night. Killed 54 recently in two nights. I think we were batting about .300 vs what we saw in the field and what stayed in the field when the others ran off.

I do think a better chance of Killing a Hog comes after a rain and/or during.

Here is a video where the wind was switching. I got busted in a freshly plowed wet field 300yds from the nearest road that was easily walked on. Normally I would have cut down 6 or 8, But I did not want any stray shots hitting the Barn on the other side of the ridge. Look at them go:

Which Thermal Imaging are you using?

Doesn't. It just helps cover your sound when your stalking