40_Rod wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 8:38am:


It works well (as it's one of the one's I watched as I didn't bring any) but seriously, the counterweight should have been in TRADITIONAL COPPER (with patina) instead of PLASTIC!   

Joe my problem with the vanes, daisy wheels and tails is that I have a hard time watching the speed of the daisy wheel, the direction the vane is pointing and the tail while trying to concentrate on my hold it is like looking at four dimensions and then trying to process it all at the same time I am trying to squeeze the trigger. 

I played around with the wind probes for a couple of years with the addition of a Snoopy Tail and or a sock and I just recently went back to the sock alone. 

I believe the majority of BR shooters do use the daisy wheel, vane, tail setup with great success it just doesn't seem to work for me.

Unfortunately the only other range I have been able to shoot at to date was in Springfield Oregon at the 2006 CBA Nationals and I had to add 6ft risers to my stands in order to get my socks up high enough. Shooting across the creek where the gremlins flick your bullets as they fly over was extremely challenging. 

By chance do you have a picture of your wind socks I would enjoy seeing how they are put together. Roland Groppe's socks looked like they were made out of sail material and man could he read them.

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Jim I could not agree with you more that is the secret to success.

J.Louis

Here's a good one, you know the barf bags (mine are blue and look like a condom) that they use in hospitals, just cut the ends out of them and install a rod and you have a wind flag very much like the one's that John showed use.  And very cheap.
I had two of these flags up and running for 4 months before they got all shot up by dumb sh++'s...
van

Is there any info on the correlation of tail angle to wind speed?

What I'm really asking I guess is, what length/weight of any particular ribbon could you correlated the MPH of the the wind? Weather in it's natural state or weighted or any other configuration. Such as a chart or graph. Or a formula i.e. L+W X 30 deg to vertical = 10 MPH (14.666 fps).

Frank

frnkeore wrote on Aug 14^th, 2011 at 9:27pm:


The answer is yes.

There are pictures here and there (sorry I don't have one at hand) of particular ribbons in varying degrees of wind.  A forumla could easily be derived.

Which is to say, reading the angle from a fixed position is problematic as the wind isn't but rarely at right angles (to the line between wind indicator and the observer) and visually it would be tough to get it right on.  But if the wind sensor were to swivel into the wind and if the sensor had a rigid paddle that was hinged the sensor could put out a voltage (indicating angle) that could be readily converted into wind velocity.

The cost of hand-held annemometers is continually coming down too.  The new ones are plasitc battery powered and have digital readout.  I have an OLD one that, if you want to calibrate your own ribbon, I will loan you.  It reads a number and you have to time it to get fps or mph.

How are you going to get all of these flags between you and the varmint, Learn conditions with triggertime. watch the grass and leaves. Be aware of your suroundings. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. Practice in the wind with a 22 so you know how to deal with it. practice is what seperates the winners from the competitors, Good eyesight and some intelegence also helps.
Tom