Comments on: Benefits of Wind Flags for Varmint Hunting

By: mike casselton

mike casselton — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:28:24 +0000

It will improve your hit ratio. It will, like mentioned above, cut way down on the number of shots.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:20:52 +0000

Damn typo’s that I can fix… Excuse please – blame the pain meds and the Traction to put my spine back together!

Which on that note, I get to walk again today (hopefully unassisted)!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:14:28 +0000

I’m with Mike. SERIOUSLY, WIND FLAG?!??!! Next thing you know, we’ll be sending forward observers downrange hang surveyors’ tape of pots in Helmand Prov.

On a more serious note, wind reading is one of the most cruicial part of this sport – and you’re cheating yoursefl but not learning and understanding natures’ windflags – trees, grass, dust, mirage/boil. You can see ALL these things through the scope.

Personally, my set up if I am shooting flat (lets ignore incl. and decl. over urbans) is to sweep a spotting scope up and down the range (only takes 1-2 sec), generally leaving it focused at
half range, and hold off using my dots. May not be super technical, but it works more often than not on the pairie dog ranges and downrange.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:26:20 +0000

I think you misunderstand HUNTING..

By: Garret

Garret — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:48:39 +0000

Good idea, however I kinda agree with the first comment.

By: Art

Art — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:24:36 +0000

Nice idea. However, once you’ve interrupted those critters habits by putting out flags, how long does it take before they start popping up again?