Weberado
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Hi All,
I was looking around for what people use for DIY wind checkers vs just buying a premade one at a big box store and I didnt see this really covered anywhere else on here so figured I share what I found. My apologies if this has in fact been covered before. This one idea seems to be the best idea I saw so would like to see what you all think is the best from your experience as mine is limited:
Take a black plastic film roll container with the grey lid or something similar. Cut a X slot in the lid. Stuff the inside full of non-scented cotton balls that you lightly shredded (maybe even add some surveyors colored chalk to make it more visible). Stuff in the container and push a little fuzz though the X slot. Now your set and you just pull a little fuzz and let it float away and this lets you see whats happening with the wind up to 20-30yds or more depending on your eye sight. As you pull fuzz it pulls more up to the slot like a tissue box, refill and repeat.
The other ones I saw that seem to work for most people are small travel squeeze bottles filled with either talc, corn starch or chalk, tying some thread to your barrel so it hangs down and catches the wind, and even sacrificing an old pillow, take some of the down, stuffing it how ever much you can fit into a container of your choice then letting a feather two fly when you want to check the wind.
Im gonna try the cotton canister and the down filling this weekend when I go hiking in Golden and Ill share my findings after.
Cheers!
I was looking around for what people use for DIY wind checkers vs just buying a premade one at a big box store and I didnt see this really covered anywhere else on here so figured I share what I found. My apologies if this has in fact been covered before. This one idea seems to be the best idea I saw so would like to see what you all think is the best from your experience as mine is limited:
Take a black plastic film roll container with the grey lid or something similar. Cut a X slot in the lid. Stuff the inside full of non-scented cotton balls that you lightly shredded (maybe even add some surveyors colored chalk to make it more visible). Stuff in the container and push a little fuzz though the X slot. Now your set and you just pull a little fuzz and let it float away and this lets you see whats happening with the wind up to 20-30yds or more depending on your eye sight. As you pull fuzz it pulls more up to the slot like a tissue box, refill and repeat.
The other ones I saw that seem to work for most people are small travel squeeze bottles filled with either talc, corn starch or chalk, tying some thread to your barrel so it hangs down and catches the wind, and even sacrificing an old pillow, take some of the down, stuffing it how ever much you can fit into a container of your choice then letting a feather two fly when you want to check the wind.
Im gonna try the cotton canister and the down filling this weekend when I go hiking in Golden and Ill share my findings after.
Cheers!
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