Pete -
No problem.  I've got all of 5 minutes invested thus far.

Hmmm.  Wind flags.  Does the wind blow in Iowa.

Sorry, but that phrase ranks right up there with the sun rising and a bear in the woods.

Pete:

I have a sheet of the plastic corrogated cardbord stuff if you still need some. Any color you want as long as it is white. When you work out the approximate dimensions let me know and I can chop it up into suitable sizes to ship.

Glenn

Pete
We are thinking along the same line of buying one and trying to duplicate. There is the "hobby shop" in Des Moines where we could get the vane material and some really big supply places in DM. We could end up with a day of gun showing and wind flag chasing.
Bob

Pete:

Here be another set of flags what you can look at. I am kinda leaning towards these for myself.

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Glenn

Pete
The corrugated plastic in colors is available on my way to Crow Shooting Supply. Sign maker at Holiday lake has it in colors.
Bob

Bob,

  Cool! Can you get some idea of what the price would be per sheet, and the size of the sheets?

PETE

Forrest,

  One of these days I'd like to shoot while having a spotter!  I'm not sure a spotter would be a lot of help here anyway, since most of the ranges I shoot the winds are so squirrely that it would be an almost impossible job for a spotter.

  Wind flags and indicators, if used, are what the shooters around here use. Like anything else it takes a while to learn how to use them. Those that do are usually the best shooters.

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  Yep! It is. On most days it will be calm up to 9 AM and when we have a match we try to get the .22 matches shot then, because after that it can get a little "troublesome" shooting the small bores.

  Of course I'm not talking about the straight line winds we have that'll get up to 80 or 90 mph a coupla times a year, or the 148 tornados we had this year. 30 & 40 mph winds are not uncommon, but mostly we'll get winds in the 10 to 15 mph range.

  Wind generators...... I can look out the front door and see one off to the SW. A town West of here (Nevada) has three of them to power the school system. Many farmers have them set up. As for " wind farms".... yes..... up in the NW part of the State there are two I have heard about and one being built.

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  The big problem here in the East is three fold. One.... The wind rarely blows steadily so you can "chase" it with your sights. Many shooters will line their guns up solid in the bags, and then just look at the flags and pinch the shot off when they think things are right, and do this without looking thru the sights. Two...... Most ranges have to be set up on "waste land" and as such it can be pretty rough. Probably the worst I've seen this way is the Wind Hill Range near Aledo Ill. Third...... The shape of the land, berms, and surrounding trees, etc. break any wind up so any flags you set out can be pointed in any direction, and show half a dozen different speeds. Personally when things get to complicated I'll depend on mirage.

  Well, hope you, and everyone else on here, have a good Thanksgiving!

PETE