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    I use the little(50ml aprox) kids bubble blower. Any form of indicator that is close and stays close (lighters, string on muzzle, etc) are very deceptive and a complete and utter waste of time. Try it, use a lighter, decide from that which way wind is going, then blow a bubble or 2, you'll be amazed. Wind swirls, especially in a semi-enclosed space, like bush.
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    You will certainly confuse the deer if they see bubbles, they would be like
    Well guys I was trying to sneak in on this roaring stag but I spooked him with my bubbles! God please let me be there when someone tells that yarn down the pub
    Mind you smelly old stag at the end of the rut might just come running....so where’s this bath???
    Bubbles think I might just try it
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    Quote Originally Posted by mallard833 View Post
    Here in the States, I like to use dried milkweed pods. You can pull out individual seeds with a whisp of hair on them and let them go in the wind. You can see them for a long ways, so it gives you a better idea of what the wind is doing overall instead of just at your location. This is very helpful when treestand hunting. If mountain hunting I use a wind indicator bottle filled with orange carpenters chalk.
    Chalk works really well. Also, Unscented talcum powder. Don’t use the scented stuff, it’ll blow a whole area of game. Unscented works well though, and it’s super cheap.


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    Wish we had something like milk weed here. That stuff floats forever.


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    cotton taped to the barrel works for me

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boaraxa View Post
    O yea nothing quite like removing pubic hair from a blond on all fours @Moa Hunter , iv got some here I can send it to you if you like ?...not paying for postage though.
    Here I was getting all excited at the mental picture you created for me Boaraxa, then... I remembered that you are a shearer and 'the blond on all fours' actually refers to crutching a hogget - you got me on that one !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
    I use the little(50ml aprox) kids bubble blower. Any form of indicator that is close and stays close (lighters, string on muzzle, etc) are very deceptive and a complete and utter waste of time. Try it, use a lighter, decide from that which way wind is going, then blow a bubble or 2, you'll be amazed. Wind swirls, especially in a semi-enclosed space, like bush.
    That might very well work Daithi but a line needs to be drawn in the sand on this. Blowing bubbles is crossing over that line to the place where wind puffs turn into poofs !!

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    Not the most portable but shit she's accurate
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    I find this is very portable and accurate

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    For generating wind or indicating the prevailing direction Bonecrusher ?

 

 

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