1.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

I always liked thistles or fibers because you could often see them drift for a long way.

I've tried to find powder (I think it's gypsum, but can be educated otherwise) to make my own windchecker instead of paying out the nose for a commercial bottle, with little luck. Corn starch is too heavy a lot of times. If I tried talcum powder at some point, I must have given up on it for some reason. I remember a few years ago I couldn't find unscented talcum powder to save my life. I bet I didn't look on-line, though. I figured if the crunchy health nut stores didn't have it, it didn't exist. Correct me if I'm wrong.

So now this. I haven't invested, but I'm interested. I wonder if it might sometimes act as smoke from a campfire does, though, and blow right at you a lot, when it shouldn't, LOL.

Anyway, this is a cool idea from a company called Cirrus, and not too hard on the pocket.




[url]http://www.cirrusoutdoors.com/cirrus-wind-indicator-faq-s[/url]

2.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

Q: Is there [B]Nicotene[/B] or other carcinogens in the vapor formula.
A: No. The formula is all natural and contains no [B]harmeful[/B] chemicals. It is not to be ingested or used as an inhalation device. Use only as directed.

Well at least it isn't, well you know...


Q: Is the vapor dangerous?
A: No. In fact it is all natural and Kosher. It is not intended for human consumption and should be used as directed on the package.

Okay, this is a new one on me. What is a Kosher smell?

3.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

I noticed that, too, LOL.


I assumed it has to do with how and from what the formula is made. I figured out that there is such a thing as a kosher cigarette, for instance. If the formula is derived from plants, say, there are kosher rules for planting, etc. Not sure how it applies to extracting oils or any other part of manufacturing, though. And I'm not sure why kosher certification of something not intended for human consumption matters anyway, but then again, as I always say, you're coming to me for advice? :wink

4.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

We may have gone full circle, people may start smoking again from their stands to cut out the middle man...

fwiw, I have a little pill bottle full of those floating seed fibers that come in a pod (can't remember the name of those things).

5.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

.....

6.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

Milkweed?

7.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

No, I originally thought it was called pipe vine. It grows on fences and produces a little green pod that eventually turns brown with little fibrous seed heads that will float.

8.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

This type of thing is good if you can keep it somewhere you can easily get to when you want. They usually want too much money for them, though. As far as I know they're just cotton fibers or the sweepings from the upholstery factory floor.


[url]http://windtracker.com/product.html[/url]

9.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

You might be right. Climbing milkweed looks a lot like it.

10.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

Sometimes you mention milkweed as a windchecker and the forums go nuts with the invasive species police.

Or at least they used to. Maybe all those guys died off...

I remember this one time, on Bowsite...

11.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

Jeez, I sure wouldn't want to use a pod in the same area where I collected it...

I guess I'll have to shut down my milkweed trafficking ring.

12.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

You can always claim it isn't yours, that you saw some kid lurking near your pack, and his eyes looked funny...

13.) Jon - 09/06/2016

I just use a piece of string hanging off my stabilizer. Doesn't show me what the wind is doing any further away than arms length but that's what I use.

14.) DParker - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=bluecat;43555]Q: Is the vapor dangerous?
A: No. In fact it is all natural and Kosher. It is not intended for human consumption and should be used as directed on the package.

Okay, this is a new one on me. What is a Kosher smell?[/QUOTE]

Not bacon scented....which is a deal-breaker for me.

Swampy,

Have you tried unscented baby powder? There are a bunch of them out there (just plug "unscented" "baby powder" into Google and you'll get a bunch of hits)...though the description for [URL="https://www.walmart.com/ip/Equate-Mild-Baby-Powder-22-Oz/10532717"]this one (Equate Mild Baby Powder)[/URL] left me a little puzzled:

[QUOTE]...includes talc and fragrance and is unscented.[/QUOTE]

Includes fragrance and is unscented? How does [I]that[/I] work?

15.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

For a bow indicator I use a length of dental floss with the last half- or one inch fuzzed with a knife. Practically indestructible.


I like watching fibers or powder float for a distance, though. Passes the time, sometimes. LOL Plus you see some freaky stuff every once in a while.

16.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

I don't know if I've tried baby powder, per se. I always thought it was just talcum powder, but what do I know?

I have a feeling I probably went looking in the grocery store for any kind of powder like that and came up snake-eyes as far as finding anything unscented. But I'll try again and give it a test.

I remember it was a bit of a struggle trying to find truly unscented baby wipes...Those babies must be trying to hide something...

17.) Jon - 09/06/2016

I'm in the mindset that I pick a stand where the wind direction is in my face and I don't blow the woods out getting to my stand. I don't pay a bunch of attention to what the wind is doing (swirling/micro-burst, windshear, etc) once I'm committed to a spot. Now if I was in the west where spot and stalk is the thing, I might carry a squeeze bottle of powder.
Are you primarily a spot and stalk guy or a treestand guy?

18.) DParker - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43573]I don't know if I've tried baby powder, per se. I always thought it was just talcum powder, but what do I know?[/quote]

Many are, but a bunch aren't (they use various combinations of corn starch and other stuff), and the ones that don't use talc tend to make a point of advertising that fact...so apparently there's some sort of issue with talc and some babies' skin or something.

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43573]I remember it was a bit of a struggle trying to find truly unscented baby wipes...Those babies must be trying to hide something...[/QUOTE]

After having raised my own 2 children and now having a granddaughter I can tell you that if babies are trying to hide anything in the scent department they're doing a terrible job of it.

19.) Jon - 09/06/2016

On a different note, I've been seeing ads on TV for a lawsuit against talcum powder manufacturers because some women are getting cervical cancer from using it on their "private areas". Maybe I'm dumb but I'm pretty sure caking that stuff inside your "private areas" is just dumb. I'll chalk that one up to people paying the stupid tax once again.

20.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=Jon;43575]I'm in the mindset that I pick a stand where the wind direction is in my face and I don't blow the woods out getting to my stand. I don't pay a bunch of attention to what the wind is doing (swirling/micro-burst, windshear, etc) once I'm committed to a spot. Now if I was in the west where spot and stalk is the thing, I might carry a squeeze bottle of powder.
Are you primarily a spot and stalk guy or a treestand guy?[/QUOTE]


This is a fair point. I am mostly a treestand guy, but do stalk a little with bow and especially rifle.

Wind here right at home is fairly predictable and usually consistent. When I hunted in the mountains (NC and Va.) it was a circus and windcheckers came in VERY handy, and my SC locations these days are really difficult, even though they are flatwoods. I don't know why--possibly because of all the water in some spots--but that doesn't explain the whole thing. Not only do the weather services do a poor job of predicting wind direction for a locality there, but it seems to shift a lot anyway once you get where you are going.

21.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;43576]After having raised my own 2 children and now having a granddaughter I can tell you that if babies are trying to hide anything in the scent department they're doing a terrible job of it.[/QUOTE]


LOL!

Toushay! :laugh:

22.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

I've seen those lawsuit ads, too. And have heard of the baby sensitivity thing a time or two as well.

Stupid whiner babies...


When I was young, mom scrubbed us with a corn cob and sprinkled us with sawdust, and we liked it!

23.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

....

24.) DParker - 09/06/2016

"Look at me! I'm ridin' dead people!"

25.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

26.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;43582]"Look at me! I'm ridin' dead people!"[/QUOTE]


You have a great memory, LOL. I had to look that one up:


[I]Grumpy Old Man: Yeah, I’m a grumpy old man and I don’t like things compared to the way they used to be. Nowadays they got a thing called the winter Olympics with all their modern and safe equipment- who needs it? Progress- flibody flabody floobody flaboslash. In my day, we didn’t have these fancy new skis. In my day we’d find an avalanche, pull out the corpses, strap ‘em to our ferr and go flyin down the mountain, yellin ‘look at me, I’m ridin dead people!’. Whoopee! It was a thing of beauty I tell ya. Nowadays if you win an event, they give you a gold metal. Phooey! In my day, if you won they have you a rotten piece of stinkin wood. If you got the bronze, they’d slam steel spikes through your feet. And you’d scream ‘but I won’t lose again’. Course you won’t, you won’t walk again, hee hee hee! Oh it was beautiful. In my day, we’d compete. One vent was ‘freeze your lips through the freezing metal pole’. Whoever pryed their moth off the pole first won. The winner would look like a bleeding lipless idiot holdin a stinkin piece of wood with spikes through his feet sayin ‘look at me, I’m a freak, and I love it!’. Oh it was glorious. Where did it all go wrong? Why God why? Why God all mighty Jehovah answer me, why? Why? Why?


[/I]



Full [I]Weekend Update[/I] script here...Worth reading when you have time, or if you need a few laughs. :-) Pretty much puts present-day SNL to shame:


[url]http://snltranscripts.jt.org/91/91nupdate.phtml[/url]

27.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43583][/QUOTE]

Boom! Saw the episode over the weekend where Doug becomes a vegetarian. One of the funniest episodes.

28.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43580]I've seen those lawsuit ads, too. And have heard of the baby sensitivity thing a time or too as well.

Stupid whiner babies...


When I was young, mom scrubbed us with a corn cob and sprinkled us with sawdust, and we liked it![/QUOTE]

:laugh:

29.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;43576]Many are, but a bunch aren't (they use various combinations of corn starch and other stuff), and the ones that don't use talc tend to make a point of advertising that fact...so apparently there's some sort of issue with talc and some babies' skin or something.



After having raised my own 2 children and now having a granddaughter I can tell you that if babies are trying to hide anything in the scent department they're doing a terrible job of it.[/QUOTE]

I think there might be some sort of link between talcum and cancer. At least there was one of those lawyer commercials on recently trying to drum up a little business to all ladies who used talcum in their lifetime and got ovarian cancer.

30.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

I guess if you are a man but identify as a women this would include you too.

31.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

:grin:

32.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

Speaking of health hazards, I looked into something called micro balloons as a windchecker some time ago. It has a bunch of applications, but I came across it while researching fishing lure-making (a high percentage in your resin adds buoyancy with minimal weight, and I'm guessing you might be able to mix it in paints as well).


It's probably not all that dangerous unless you huff it, but it's worth reading the warning. I've never used it.


[url]http://www.alumilite.com/store/p/957-Microballoons.aspx[/url]



[url]https://www.alumilite.com/PDFs/SDS/powders/Microballoons.pdf[/url]

33.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=bluecat;43588]I guess if you are a man but identify as a women this would include you too.[/QUOTE]


It's not even as complicated as that, LOL:

34.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

35.) DParker - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43592][/QUOTE]

I thought of him while driving through Frisco (a N. Dallas 'burb) on Sunday when we passed one of these places being built: [URL="https://slimchickens.com/"]Slim Chickens[/URL]

I need to check them out (there are a couple in the area), but it's going to take everything I've got to not walk in and loudly ask, "What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?!!"

36.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

LOL...

37.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;43591]It's not even as complicated as that, LOL:




[/QUOTE]

So...how did you find all that?

I goggled it and looked at a list of the endorsing celebrities.



Um, I think I'll pass on whatever in the hell it is.

38.) DParker - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=DParker;43593]...it's going to take everything I've got to not walk in and loudly ask, "What in the wide, wide world of sports is a-goin' on here?!!"[/QUOTE]

I also need to remember to not order a #6.

39.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

It's a good thing you're familiar with that one...


LOL

40.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

[QUOTE=bluecat;43595]So...how did you find all that?

[/QUOTE]


You have to know these things when you're a king...


:wink

41.) bluecat - 09/06/2016

...or queen. :grin:

42.) Swamp Fox - 09/06/2016

Three points and a subscription to [I]GQ[/I]...