Homemade wind checker??
08-04-2008, 08:31 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Lake County, Il
Posts: 2,205
RE: Homemade wind checker??
I usually use the windchecker powder, It's really cheap, but I've heard you can use the fuzzy stuff that comes out of honeysuckle, or any other airborn weed seeds, just pack em in a film canister (they still make those don't they?)
08-04-2008, 09:37 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Winnipeg MB Canada
Posts: 1,094
RE: Homemade wind checker??
ORIGINAL: buckmaster
I usually like to take a can of Axe Vice body spray, just turn the can upward and spray a light mist.
I usually like to take a can of Axe Vice body spray, just turn the can upward and spray a light mist.
Personally i think it cheeper to use and old lock de-cier bottle and flour/cornstarch[:-]
08-04-2008, 09:56 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
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.
08-04-2008, 10:00 PM
#8
Join Date: May 2008
Location:
Posts: 2,434
RE: Homemade wind checker??
Step 1: Raise arm to mouth level
Step 2: Lick index finger
Step 3: Hold out licked index finger so your elbow makes a 90 degree angle
Step 4: Feel what side is the coldest
Step 5: Enjoy the new bow you baught with all the money you saved on wind finders, tell tales if your a sailor.
Step 2: Lick index finger
Step 3: Hold out licked index finger so your elbow makes a 90 degree angle
Step 4: Feel what side is the coldest
Step 5: Enjoy the new bow you baught with all the money you saved on wind finders, tell tales if your a sailor.
