My preference is fiber material that floats in the air. The problem with powder is the limited distance before it disappears. It's possible to watch fiber drift a pretty long distance...even through binos. Also, sometimes wind may blow one direction close to your location and 10' away may drift a different direction. This can often be picked up with the fibers and not powder.
I am the same. What do you use in the form of synthetic fiber? While whitetail hunting I'll use milkweed, but don't want to introduce a nonnative species out west.
I use milkweed and pull the seeds off. Ill spend 10 min pulling them off and then stuff it all in pill containers. I wouldn't go back to a powder for wind checking.
In Idaho last year we were sitting on a mostly timbered mountain side mid morning and i tossed a milkweed piece out. We were in the shade and i watched the milkweed float down hill 30 yards, only to hit a sunny patch and go straight up into the trees. You aren't gonna see that with a bottle of powder.
Actually not true, have seen this with powder(if the wind is light enough of course) I like the milkweed idea, but hard to find around here!!
I just use whatever is cheapest but refill with talc. I like the snap line chalk idea. I have plenty of that around.
The glass bubbles are microballoons. You can buy bigger containers of it hobby shops that sell model airplanes and the like. It used to mix with epoxy and is super light.
The glass bubbles are microballoons. You can buy bigger containers of it hobby shops that sell model airplanes and the like. It used to mix with epoxy and is super light.
What are microballoons made of? Some kind of plastic, or something else? Are they biodegradable?