Wind Flags where to buy?

Some of the benchrest guys at my home range use stakes with trail flagging tape for wind flags. Really cheap so you can make a lot of them if you want. I have also seen them using pin wheel garden ornaments to get an accurate direction at a couple points down range.

Something like this except with a tail to get it pointed into the wind.
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Im curious too as I am thinking about buying some from Mike Ezell out of the states but the shipping is costly. So if there is any good Canadian sources im all for it.
 
If you want actual benchrest flags I don't think anyone in Canada is selling them.

There are numerous vendors stateside. Google: rick graham BR flags and also Flying Fish Fundamentals and shadetree engineering. That will keep you busy.
 
I could not find them either so I have them made up quarter scale dcra. They are light nylon very close if not the same as the Manitoba range flags at st.charles.
 
I've bought a few by mail order from Buffalo Arms. They use a vane for direction, and flagging for intensity. They are very sensitive but are hard to read well past 100m with the naked eye. A friend made a set that are scaled up for distances. We've set them a long ways out and they really are an improvement over the standard range flags.
 
As RPollock said, the most common in the west are Rick Grahams Flags. The latest and most common are his tool box flags. 8 flags that fit in a tool box be it ball or daisy flags.

The Aussie flags are also nice put pricey as are Smiley Hensley's flags.

Sorry guys, short range flags are nothing what the long range or F-class guys use.
 
The Graham ones look good I plan on e-mailing him to see how much shipping is going to be. I have read on a couple other forums that he charges allmost as much for shipping as the wind flag cost. These flags really don't look all that compicated to make but is does seem to me that the most important thing is to have it balanced properly.
 
It is pretty easy to make your own ball flags. My first set were a copy of his original (non flat top) design. Corroplast, UHMW 3/4 round, small diameter arrow shafts that would slide into the corroplast, and 2 or 2.5" wooden craft balls. Some paint and crazy glue. Flags are easy to balance easier to show than explain.
 
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