Curious if you all do anything interesting for a wind indicator? I've often tied a feather to a piece of dental floss to the top or bottom string loop. Figure I'll probably tie one on the quiver this year and see how that works. Any other ideas out there?
Milk Weed.
I use milk weed fluff religiously, I love how it floats on thermals and I can see it along ways as it floats.
Puff bottle spot and stalk...little fluff of cotton off of a cotton ball if stand hunting.
I take the milk weed and put it into an old film container and then cut an x in the top and pull them out. Works great and like adeeden says you can see them for ever.
corn starch
I never leave home on a hunting trip without a puff bottle in my pack and spare in the truck. I also tie a feather on my limb tip as well and use it when I can't access my puff bottle.
Puff bottle
I tie a thread to my string near the upper limb tip. When at Ray's I use a puff bottle with corn starch.
All my treestands have a 8" piece of white thread tied to them. No movement required to reach in your pocket and then throw or squirt something. Feather or thread on limb works the same.
I tie a light thread about six inches long on my bow tip near the nock and another behind the broadhead of my no. 1 arrow. The string on the bow keeps me apprised of wind direction while walking, still hunting or stalking. When on stand, with the string on the arrow, and the arrow on the bow, I always know which way the wind is blowing, even when I have a critter in front of me.
I tie UNWAXED dental floss to my bow. This tells me the wind EXACTLY where I am sitting.
I use talcum powder. It gives me a very accurate look at the wind from my spot out to about 6-7 feet
I use milkweed pods....my pockets are full of them...and they let me watch the current well beyond the 6-7 feet of the talcum powder.
Sincerely, the wind is everything.
I usually see which way my Pipe Smoke is going... might be why I dont see too many critters, but it sure makes it easy to tell Wind Direction! Pretty relaxing too! :archer:
i tie string to the end of my bow. but i like the string on the end of arrow idea!
What kind of bottle do you all use for the powder? Where did you find it?
After 15yrs. or so I finally quit smoking early this year. I'm going to have to try the string on the arrow trick.
Rob
x2 on the milkweed in a film canister.
Baking POWDER in a small bottle.
Dr. Shulz travel size foot powder, the same stuff I use on my shooting glove. Sometimes smoke from Dunhil Morning Pipe from my corncob pipe and when I am feeling lucky smoke from a Maccanudo cigar.
I second the thread in the arrow tip. I take a thin white or florescent orange thread about 6-8 inch long, unscrew my broad head push the tip of the thread into the insert and retighten the broad head. When on stand I always know the wind direction. While moving, I use a puff bottle.
Just put a nice red tail hawk feather on my bow and use puff powder too.
I use a butane lighter. always have one in my pocket altho I quit smoking 35 years ago.
Been doing this many years and can't find a reason to change. Go to your fly fishing supplies get a bag of bright marabou feathers and hunt. They will stay in your pockets for years, like lint. You only need pinch of of a feather and can see them forever. Also stick to your sleave or the back of your glove. Works great! Term
Milkweed for me
QuoteOriginally posted by Rob W.:
After 15yrs. or so I finally quit smoking early this year. I'm going to have to try the string on the arrow trick.
Rob
hey rob, congrats!! also my buddy smokes and bow hunts. most time he has to put his cigarette down to shoot lol. dont seem to bother them. now big mature deer mite be different. but we dont got very many of those around here.
Milkweed.
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The boys and I have always used a fluffy breast feather from a chukar on a fine piece of thread. Tradition.
The boys and I have always used a fluffy breast feather from a chukar on a fine piece of thread. Tradition.
Thanks RedShaft. I have put a bunch of deer down while smoking. Never seemed to bother them much.
Main reason I quit is for my boys. I want to be able to keep up with them for a long time. Maybe even chase some elk in the mountains one of these days.
Rob
I hot glue the dental floss to the tip of my bow, but I fray the end of the floss to make it more sensitive to the wind. I also use a bottle of talc powder.
Unwaxed dental floss
QuoteOriginally posted by mahantango:
x2 on the milkweed in a film canister.
I do the exact same thing, sans the seeds.