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Homemade Windicators

Postby Chaza402 » 09 03, 2016 •  [Post 1]

What's your best and cheapest recipe for telling the wind? Concoctions, recipes, and apparatuses for finding the big game hunter's arch enemy.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby WapitiTalk1 » 09 03, 2016 •  [Post 2]

Wet finger for me when I can't feel it on my neck or face ;)

Edit: probably shouldn't use this method after checking elk berries for freshness :0
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby Mathewsz7-elkridge » 09 03, 2016 •  [Post 3]

Phantom16 wrote:Wet finger for me when I can't feel it on my neck or face ;)

Edit: probably shouldn't use this method after checking elk berries for freshness :0

:lol:
Corner starch works pretty good but grass is cheaper.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby bald9eagle » 09 04, 2016 •  [Post 4]

I bought some micro balloons and filled up some small squeeze bottles.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby Ryan Conkle » 09 04, 2016 •  [Post 5]

I also refill my windicator bottles' with corn starch...grass works fine but the white powder being in the air gives you a longer view of what the wind is doing. Elk Berries....lol Great advice Phantom! :lol:
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby saddlesore » 09 04, 2016 •  [Post 6]

Bic Lighter
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby Miller1 » 09 05, 2016 •  [Post 7]

I open milkweed pods and put the silky insides in a small bottle and let a tiny bit go into the air, you can watch it float for about 30 yard's, amazing what the wind does in that distance.

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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby Dlove » 09 06, 2016 •  [Post 8]

refillable pump nasal spray bottle. fine mist and can refill from your water bottle.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby nrocchio » 09 13, 2016 •  [Post 9]

I refilled my wind indicator bottle with baking soda last week. It worked just as well as whatever was in the bottle when I bought it.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby Ridge Ghost » 09 13, 2016 •  [Post 10]

Grouse down feather suspended from my top limb by about 1 1/2 inches of string. Also I re-fill my puff bottle with lifting chalk, which works well and is cheap.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby elkhuntfever » 09 13, 2016 •  [Post 11]

While hunting from a tree stand, I have used tiny bits of TP. With a good breeze, it traveled 40-50 yards.
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby Lefty » 09 14, 2016 •  [Post 12]

Ive refilled all my bottles with cornstartch
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Re: Homemade Windicators

Postby >>>---WW----> » 10 21, 2016 •  [Post 13]

I drill a small hole in the top of my bow quiver and stuff a couple of cotton balls under the hole. Then replace the foam and you are all set. Just pull a little piece of cotton out and let it drift away. I also have a piece of white sewing thread tied to my bowstring.
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