Homemade wind checker??
08-05-2008 | 01:45 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Central Wisconsin
RE: Homemade wind checker??
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
The best thing I've found is dirt cheap. Free actually.
Go and find a Milk Weed plant and take the stuff out of the pods when it starts to open up. It should be good and dry then. Sprays, powders, strings don't cut it for me. What the wind is doing 5' in front of your face may not be doing 20 yards from you. I let a piece of milk weed go and it goes in every direction the wind takes it and its visible forever until its a ways out of sight. You would be surprised how your wind changes direction 30 to 40 feet from your stand.
The best thing I've found is dirt cheap. Free actually.
Go and find a Milk Weed plant and take the stuff out of the pods when it starts to open up. It should be good and dry then. Sprays, powders, strings don't cut it for me. What the wind is doing 5' in front of your face may not be doing 20 yards from you. I let a piece of milk weed go and it goes in every direction the wind takes it and its visible forever until its a ways out of sight. You would be surprised how your wind changes direction 30 to 40 feet from your stand.
08-05-2008 | 05:22 AM
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Fork Horn
Joined: Dec 2003
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From: Selinsgrove, PA
RE: Homemade wind checker??
The best thing I've found is dirt cheap. Free actually. Go and find a Milk Weed plant and take the stuff out of the pods when it starts to open up. It should be good and dry then. Sprays, powders, strings don't cut it for me. What the wind is doing 5' in front of your face may not be doing 20 yards from you. I let a piece of milk weed go and it goes in every direction the wind takes it and its visible forever until its a ways out of sight. You would be surprised how your wind changes direction 30 to 40 feet from your stand.
Go and find a Milk Weed plant and take the stuff out of the pods when it starts to open up. It should be good and dry then. Sprays, powders, strings don't cut it for me. What the wind is doing 5' in front of your face may not be doing 20 yards from you. I let a piece of milk weed go and it goes in every direction the wind takes it and its visible forever until its a ways out of sight. You would be surprised how your wind changes direction 30 to 40 feet from your stand.
I'm with Shultzy on this one. Here's 3 easy steps!
Step 1: Find Milkweed Step 2: Extract seeds from pod. Step 3: Place in container of your choosing.
X3 - been using milk weed seeds for as long as I can remember. Theres enough seeds in one pod to last almost your entire season. You will be amazed at how far you can see them in the woods.
Good luck,
Brian
Step 1: Find Milkweed Step 2: Extract seeds from pod. Step 3: Place in container of your choosing.
X3 - been using milk weed seeds for as long as I can remember. Theres enough seeds in one pod to last almost your entire season. You will be amazed at how far you can see them in the woods.
Good luck,
Brian
08-05-2008 | 05:47 AM
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RE: Homemade wind checker??
Cattails work really good. Found out the hard way that leaveing them in your vechile works to dry them out super fast but if you step on them it will look like achickenhouse has exploded inside your truck\car.
08-05-2008 | 09:07 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: RI
RE: Homemade wind checker??
I've been known to do the finger check thing, but one thing I found by accident works quite well. I used to live in an apartment and had to use a dryer to dry my hunting clothes. I used scent free dryer sheets. Once, when I got on stand I found the spent dryer sheet in my shirt pocket. I plucked a few fibers off the edge and let them go and they floated for quite a distance showing me exactly what the wind was doing. Face it though, when I'm up in my stand and the wind shifts, I'm pretty much resolved to staying put though. The wind matters to me when I first get to the property to decide where I'm going to hang my climber and/or how I'm going to approach my stand.
08-06-2008 | 04:52 AM
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Spike
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RE: Homemade wind checker??
Be careful using those milkweed spores. If there are any extreme enviromentalists reading posts on this site, they might convince the government that we need to do any enviromental impact study on the implications of so many hunters spreading those seeds!!!
08-06-2008 | 04:58 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Central Wisconsin
RE: Homemade wind checker??
ORIGINAL: MANIAC998
Be careful using those milkweed spores. If there are any extreme enviromentalists reading posts on this site, they might convince the government that we need to do any enviromental impact study on the implications of so many hunters spreading those seeds!!!
Be careful using those milkweed spores. If there are any extreme enviromentalists reading posts on this site, they might convince the government that we need to do any enviromental impact study on the implications of so many hunters spreading those seeds!!!
