MTM wind reader flags

[rickdavis81]

Anyone use the mtm wind reader flags? Thought about getting a few for the home range. Can you leave em out year round? I'm kinda lazy and won't use em if I have to put em out every time.

 

[grauhanen]

Can you leave em out year round? I'm kinda lazy and won't use em if I have to put em out every time.

Indolence is alive and well. Better not get flags if they must remain on the range indefinitely. Much less expensive to use and eventually lose surveyor's tape on a stick.

 

[Booner1334]

If you mean the MTM Caseguard wind flags, yes I use them for rimfire benchrest. With a little modification they pick up a wind change real quick.

They're made of plastic so they should be able to handle a year's weather.

 

[rickdavis81]

Indolence is alive and well. Better not get flags if they must remain on the range indefinitely. Much less expensive to use and eventually lose surveyor's tape on a stick.

Here lately free time is a premium. So if I get time to shoot I don’t want to spend it setting stuff up. I’m spoiled having steel plates and backers at various ranges. Thinking I’m gonna build a roof over my bench and platform to keep the sun and rain off me

 

[rickdavis81]

Indolence is alive and well. Better not get flags if they must remain on the range indefinitely. Much less expensive to use and eventually lose surveyor's tape on a stick.

Gonna have to Google indolence

 

[acourvil]

Gonna have to Google indolence

Too much work

 

[flatland1]

I've been too cheap to buy any of the really nice windmill-style wind indicators; have used surveyor's tap stapled to simple wood stakes or tied around existing pipe fencelines, but am thinking a couple of windmills with tape tails would be a worthwhile addition when shooting 50-100yd smallbore stuff. I thought I had a good handle on reading wind back when I was still shooting high power leg matches, where you're not allowed any sighters, and where most of us were shooting AR15s at 200/300/600yds. But that was more than 20yrs ago, and shooting 40gr RNL bullets at sub-sonic velocity is quite a lot more challenging than shooting 69-80gr BTHP match bullets at 2800-2900fps...

ETA - Googling "indolence" is too much work....lol

 

[rickdavis81]

Too much work

Thanks lol. Hadn’t gotten around to it yet. Redoing my shooting range, moving benches and stuff

 

[jstiller]

Go to this website. This is what we use for ARA and other short range benchrest. He also sells the Besche Windicators. Without some kind of flags you will never know what is causing flyers or poor grouping.

www.stlflagco.com