I noticed two different types of wind probes at Etna Green. One low one with a toilet float and a taller one with two cups glued together. Where do you get either? Prices? Which one is better (that opened a can of worms!). Does anybody have a web sight address?
Thanks

Here is the guy to get hold of for the probe you shot over at the 22 shoot:

e-mail me at Genebeggs@cableone.net, I'll tell you everything I know about the Wind Probe.


This is the guy that  came up with them.

A very well done product.

Lends some credence to a theory I've been collecting data on for years...


Benchresters are crazy! 


(What, a stick and some orange streamer tape like the prone shooters at our club uses is too "cheap" for the bench guys?  They have to spend $200-$400 on a WIND FLAG?!?!... Clinically insane...)

22rf silhouettes?

Offnand Schuezen you can read the wind by watching conditons on trees, grass, dust from bullet strikes etc.  The best wind guage anywere is your sighter target. Shoot one and see were it goes.

And you can use all the benchrest shooters wind gizmos.

Boats

In offhand schuetzen, which is all I do,  when I hold for the wind there's an irritating tendency for the shot to go where I was holding.  So at most all I do is sight in with the wind and watch for changes.  The most I do with any wind indication is make a shoot/don't shoot decision.  Some of the oldtimers I shot with watched the grass on the backstop behind the target.  I think that's too far downrange, but it keeps your attention in the vicinity of the target.  The most valuable information I get is where did the last shot go compared to where the sights were pointed when I let it off.

It also does not make any sense to try to hold a few rings over for the wind when you can't hold inside the 20 ring to begin with.  Far better to concentrate on improving your hold rather than worrying much about the wind.

Chris
Iowa

Theres a big difference in offhand and bench!!! Everyone know wind does not effect offhand shots!!!

My first few visits to EG I didn't have a clue about wind skills, much less the condition monitoring equipment, or much of everything else come to think of it. However I quickly realized that there was a definant ebb and flow to the shooting.  There would be moments during a relay when there was very little shooting and a few minutes later it would be a veritable fusillade.  not knowing any better I simply shot when everyone else was shooting and held my fire when there were few if any guns going off.   Meaning of course DURING the relays   
 Since then I've developed a respectful appreciation for the wind and mirage conditions.  I've built or bought various flags, stands. wind probe, stakes to anchor them, a little laser to align them properly, and a whole seperate box to haul them in. Now I'm working on learning how to use them.
  Oddly enough I was looking back through an old notebook of fired targets and I found the best Schoyen centerfire I've ever done---and it was that first season when I was shooting "by concensus".  However it was with a 45-70 and 500 grain bullets so wind may have been a little bit less of a factor.