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October 26, 2004
Smoke In A Bottle
"The ultimate windage detector."
Huh?
What's windage?
I'm so glad you asked.
From the website:
"Keeping the wind in your face is the secret to any successful hunt!"
[Even if you've forgotten, your Paleolithic ancestors knew this very well, because their rivals who were too dumb to use this knowledge didn't live long enough to pass on their DNA. But I digress.]
More from the site:
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Even the smallest breeze can carry your human scent directly to the animals you're hunting.
This odorless powder allows you to instantly detect the directional flow of even the slightest air current.
Just squeeze the bottle gently and a column of smoke will drift upward from the tip alerting you to any change.
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Seems to me this product would be extremely useful in baseball and football: for positioning outfielders, placekickers' allowing for the wind, what have you.
Costs $5.99 for a bottle.
I'm surprised no one in the sports world has, as yet, twigged to this stuff.
bookofjoe is everywhere.
Even - unlike Mastercard - places you don't want to be.
October 26, 2004 at 03:01 PM | Permalink
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What's wrong with licking your finger and putting it up in the air now? :-)
- ask
Posted by: Ask Bjørn Hansen | Oct 27, 2004 3:57:07 AM
There's a good reason you don't see this product used in the sports world. If the wind is blowing hard enough to produce an adverse effect, the players will be able to feel and detect it. One hardly needs the ultra sensitive smoke to feel gusts. Besides, the flags on the goal posts and around stadiums are there to help out the players already. Of course, someone may argue that archery could benefit from this product, but then archery isn't a sport, rather it's an activity.
Posted by: looseman | Oct 26, 2004 3:21:44 PM
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