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Please recommend to me a set of wind flags

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Tominco

Tominco

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I have been trying to win a set at the EBR raffle for the past 3 years with no luck. So, forget it! I'm just going to buy them and be done with it. :)
I'll be shooting from 25 to 100 yards, 22 and 25 cal. primarily. 
I'd like to get a set of about 3 but I'm open to suggestions. Using wind flags is all new to me. 
I'm going to assume they come with instructions but any tips on using them would be appreciated as well. 
Budget... I wouldn't say "the sky's the limit". Like most people, I'd like the best bang for the buck. 
Cheers, and happy shooting!
Tom

Mods - I put this in Target Shooting because I thought these folks would know the most about this. Feel free to move if appropriate. 
 
I have homemade wind flag made out of the green plastic coated tomato stack and surveyors ribbon. I have flags for 25 yd, 50 yd, 75 yd, and 100 yd on my two shooting lanes. I have about $18 in all 8 flags total. I drill a hole in the end the stacks the size of a 2 inch nail. I put the nail through a folded over peace of the ribbon and make the ribbons 3 ft long so I can always gauge the wind the same way.
 
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"Wizard"I have homemade wind flag made out of the green plastic coated tomato stack and surveyors ribbon. I have flags for 25 yd, 50 yd, 75 yd, and 100 yd on my two shooting lanes. I have about $18 in all 8 flags total. I drill a hole in the end the stacks the size of a 2 inch nail. I put the nail through a folded over peace of the ribbon and make the ribbons 3 ft long so I can always gauge the wind the same way.
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Any particular reason for 3ft flags vs say, 2ft flags?
 
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Before you drop a bunch of $, this is what I did this winter. For what it's worth. I've got a heated shop with lathes, mills and such and when weather is to rotten to shoot, anything to entertain myself is fair game. I started out with an antenna off a truck with a 2ft x 1 1/2 inch ribbon that could swivel. From there moved on to different types of weather vanes. Single and double tails mounted on a ball bearing swivel base. Sure enough, they point into the wind. Mounted a fan blade on the front and painted one blade to get a sense of how fast the wind was blowing. Then added a ribbon to the tail. From there built one like AOA sells and one like the windmiester. They all work, but found myself going back to the simple weather vane with a ribbon on the tail, and I'm not sure that's any better then just the ribbon. Found that if I set it up so the ribbon blows right across my target so I don't have to look for it, that's when I do best at long range. I've even shot holes in the tails. Never have figured out how to deal with all the wind changes caused by obstructions. Like at EBR where there are earth berms on each side and some cross ways in some shooting lanes and not others, plus the roof you shoot under. Just my opinion, for what it's worth. Let us know what you come up with and how it works.
 
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