Lol some of you ‘play the wind’ guys will never change your minds- and that’s ok! I agree playing the wind is obviously the best route when possible. But I don’t think it’s always realistic.
I hunt MT and for elk hunting/ spot n stalk no I don’t think trying to stay scent free is realistic or worth messing with.
However I love hunting early season (archery) whitetails in river bottoms of Eastern MT. I have had decent luck playing the wind and ‘kind of’ trying to keep my scent down and using Nose Jammer (which I will definitely argue works to an extent) but still got busted occasionally.