I just dont get this one the fire fly, seen it on the tube tonight and just scratched my head. Its an electronic windacator that has LED's that light up showing wind diretion. I personally like to see the flow path of my wind to know if its rising, falling, or swirling. I use a little duhicky caled the wind tracker, its a little plastic tube that contains orange fibers that float in the wind. They last forever and it attaches to my safety vest for ease of getting to. What do most of you use for checking your wind,,,besides a flag when you walk out the door? I also sometimes use the powder. I mean just lights,,come on man Hank Parker was promoting this one, figures
I have a fuzzy feather tied to my bow and I carry some talc that I make a mess with when I try to test the wind. Often it's pointless in the river bottoms anyhow. The wind does it's own thing down there.
Dan, I'm a Windtracker user too... I used to have the owner's e-mail addy, but can't even find if they're in business anymore. I don't think Cabela's carries them anymore (where I used to get mine from)... If you find anywhere that has any left, gimme a call.
Will do, but im thinking you can buy some similar fiber to just replace it in the tube, like those girls hair doodles Christine? know anything about those?
Rob gave me this really high tech thingy called a thread. You tie it to your stabilizer and look at it from time to time.
Ben, it's cooler if there's a feather on the thread. (but they get torn off fairly often... keep a chicken handy) Crik. How about the fibers from milkweed seeds? Or fluffy feathers? And what the heck is a hair doodle!?
I use the same thing. When i run out of those orange fibers i replace them with white or colored cotton balls.
You'd like the puffs of fiber better, seriously. I, too, used to use a thread, but it's really enlightening watching the currents and updrafts (and downdrafts) created by the thermals. Really gives you some insight into what your scent is doing.
Can't remember now... I was trying to finagle a deal where we'd include one of his Windtrackers with the BowTech logo screenprinted on and include one with each of our new bows... We never got things ironed out though.
Nope, that's a "puff" bottle... to dispense a non-scented baby powder. What we're talking about is actual fibrous material you pull out of a little rubber tube about an inch in length that will float on the air currents for as long as you can see it. Powder dissipates too quickly.
First time I've found it in years, though it says it's out of stock: http://www.eders.com/products/gameplan-windtracker-wind-detector.html
In stock here, apparently: http://www.bowhunterssuperstore.com/game-plan-gear-windtracker-p-1864106.html I still like the white fibers better. The orange is actually made to use in snow; white shows up in the woods better.
I use the powder. I'll go through a bottle in 4-5 hunts. Cheap enough to replace. If you send out enough, you can track it for a long while. Only time I really worry about it is entering up a ridge.....or sitting in a bottom. Knowing the wind direction is of little use to you in these instances.
I use downy feathers from the chickens I slaughter. They are real fine, small feathers and you can tear off even smaller pieces. From one little downy feather I can get 4-6 little floaters. What makes them so nice, at least for me, is that they hang in the wind and go with the slightest breeze. They let me check what my scent stream is actually doing, whether it is going up with a thermal, hanging or swirling and, if it is going in one direction, how far. I can get a good "picture" of my scent stream and that gives me a real sense of what I have to deal with and what any approaching deer may smell, when and where they might smell it.
