My reason for contributing to this thread was to help shooters and hunters understand and use wind indicators to maximize their results while minimizing time and components being wasted.
Cutting through all the details, there's truly only three things a shooter new to using using 'flags' (generic term) really needs to do:
1. Use at least two at 100 yards. Assuming a flat-ish range, one at 10 yds. and one at 60 yds. works. If the range has odd features (berms, etc), watch how the flags react when you move them around and place them accordingly.
2. When shooting your group, make
sure the flags are angled the same for each shot.
3. You need some sort of 'tail' to indicate wind speed. Make
sure this is the same for each shot.
And that's it.
If you do these things (#'s 2&3 can actually be condensed together), you'll get 90% of the way there. And you'll be 100% ahead of where you were without using flags.
I'd like to add that wind socks make excellent wind indicators.
If you search on ebay under 'Aviation Wind Socks', look for the 80CM/31" ones..... $20 will get you a couple.
Good shootin' -Al
