Best tail/ribbon for high winds?

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Boyd Allen

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A friend who lives in Montana is at the range today, breaking in a new barrel, and the wind has his sail tails straight out and flapping. Living in sunny California, I don't often find myself in those conditions, so I thought that I would ask those of you who live and shoot where the wind blows more and harder. What is the best ribbon/tail material for windy conditions?
Thanks,
 
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Boyd Allen said:
A friend who lives in Montana is at the range today, breaking in a new barrel, and the wind has his sail tails straight out and flapping. Living in sunny California, I don't often find myself in those conditions, so I thought that I would ask those of you who live and shoot where the wind blows more and harder. What is the best ribbon/tail material for windy conditions?
Thanks,
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cord tail on all the flags I own and all the flags I sell. It is a single strand of black and single strand of white that are knotted together. I high winds, the cord flies almost like a sailtail in the lighter stuff. The stuff I use is a polypropylene yarn.

David
 
Well...

A thread and a rock. If the rock just wobbles, it hardly blows.
If the thread is in line with the ground, time to start dialing wind in.
If the rock is wet, it's raining.
If you can't see the rock, time to get the snow shovels.


You know the rest...

Phil aka tazzman

PS: I had to make a road for the oil truck. Just 4.5 ft of snow or so... over 550 ft!
 
When it gets real windy I just put two of David's sail tails together - one inside the other - and that seems to calm them down and make them a bit more "readable" Haven't done it very often, so I can't vouch for their reliability.

Dennis
 
Thank you sir

DeltaBravo said:
When it gets real windy I just put two of David's sail tails together - one inside the other - and that seems to calm them down and make them a bit more "readable" Haven't done it very often, so I can't vouch for their reliability.

Dennis
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never thought of that one. the cord works too.
 
Boyd at the cactus where it blew just as bad as anywhere . The person that i shared my bench with was using clips that snapped to the ends of tails ,that seamed to stabilize the tails to where they were not flying all over the place. You could actually get a better reading with the clips on the tails.
Gabe
 
We have 10 to 15MPH average wins here on my farm, an I have found a painters drop cloth cut into strips works quite well. This material is the same or close to the same material used to make frog togs rain gear. If anyone cares to see it I can text a pic. 217 246 0787 works great!!!! Lee
 
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