(by the way, some people confuse this bad behavior with sensitivity).
And because of that it just didn’t know what it wanted to do. In this case the pivot point of Del’s flag was almost directly in the middle of its overall length which created a situation where the wind was working on the front of the flag as much as the rear. The reason for it was weight the distribution in the flag, and where that caused the pivot point to be. We took the tail off of it and it just started spinning in circles! The design was so close to the edge of stability that the only thing keeping it going semi straight was the drag on the tail. Between yardages we went out to look at it. One thing we noticed right away was it was very twitchy and couldn’t seem to make up its mind which way it wanted to go. It was a double vane flag with a small very light weight prop on the front and a long sail tail. (I always learned a lot shooting next to Del!) Anyway, he had brought out his latest design and put it out maybe 15 yds in front of the benches. One day I had the good luck to be shooting next to Del for a match. Del was a great bullet maker, but he also liked to tinker with other things having to do with Benchrest, like wind flags. Years ago when I first started thinking about wind flags my friend Del Bishop and I used to bounce ideas off each other. There can be big differences in wind flag designs that can affect your success as a BR shooter. Readability of the design is the most important thing. The essence of Benchrest is trying to manage what the wind is doing to the bullet by reading the info the flags are providing and compensating with your aiming point, so that when the bullets are pushed, they all go into the same hole. One thing new Benchrest shooters quickly learn is that the bullet is moved by the wind a lot more than they thought it would be. In Benchrest there are many ways to do things and these are just my opinions and what has worked for me. In that time I’ve formed some pretty strong opinions on what makes a good flag, but I’d like to say that I do not consider myself the ultimate authority on anything.
I’ve been designing, making and selling wind flags for Benchrest shooting for the last 15 years or so.
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