DIY milkweed dispenser

[Hitemnasty]

Been trying to figure out a easy way to carry a dispense my milkweed while hunting. Didn’t want to use pill bottles like I see some use for noise and just being  inconvenient.  So I took a boat key floater and drilled a hole in the bottom, stuffed it full and I’d be damned it worked!

For now seems like it would just keep pulling it out as it’s tangled together in there but thinking about looking for a flimsy spring to stuff in there to keep pushing it down to the bottom. Hole is about 1/4 inch and I took a razor to clean it up and kind of taper it so my fingers can grab it little easier. 

 

Edited October 27, 2019 by Hitemnasty

[Lunatic]

Nice

[Nighthawk]

Great job!!

[thefirstndsecond]

May seem dumb but what is it for?

If you are looking at the wind why not use a piece of thread on the end of your stabilizer?

[Livesintrees]

3 minutes ago, thefirstndsecond said:

May seem dumb but what is it for?

If you are looking at the wind why not use a piece of thread on the end of your stabilizer?

All the thread or a powder style wind checker shows you is the wind where you are. When you drop milkweed you can watch it for a hundred yards or more a lot of times. It shows you EXACTLY how the wind currents are traveling through the terrain. I’ve dropped milkweed, watched it go out 50 yards and literally make a circle back passed my tree. Thermals and terrain are CRAZY. Wind in your face isn’t al wind in your face. Try it sometime and you will be humbled by just how deer are picking us off on a “perfect wind”

[Hitemnasty]

19 minutes ago, thefirstndsecond said:

May seem dumb but what is it for?

If you are looking at the wind why not use a piece of thread on the end of your stabilizer?

I always have a thread on my stabilizer but like pointed out it’s not 100% accurate. Even as the wind blows past the tree or yourself it can change the thread indicator. 

[JHbowhunter]

No better tool to have than milkweed. I do use pill containers never had issue stay bone dry. As others said I care about what my scent is doing as it leaves me and where it really  goes.  I have moved stands that I could not understand why I always got winded when it made no sense.  Because it went out 50 and bent over 90 degrees to where I thought no way in hell can I get winded. 

[Livesintrees]

More importantly if anyone has milkweed and wants to mail me some.....that would be lovely. None around here to harvest. And I’m running low 

[Hitemnasty]

12 minutes ago, Livesintrees said:

More importantly if anyone has milkweed and wants to mail me some.....that would be lovely. None around here to harvest. And I’m running low 

Saw a big bag of harvested, cleaned milkweed on eBay I think. 

[hammer4reel]

14 minutes ago, Livesintrees said:

More importantly if anyone has milkweed and wants to mail me some.....that would be lovely. None around here to harvest. And I’m running low 

 

14 minutes ago, Livesintrees said:

More importantly if anyone has milkweed and wants to mail me some.....that would be lovely. None around here to harvest. And I’m running low 

Let me see what’s left after this last rain , was quite a few pods around before it 

[megavites]

I've been putting a rubberband around dried pod.

collected some this summer...

[Hitemnasty]

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[gobblergetter]

Cotton works too

[Buck154]

11 hours ago, Livesintrees said:

More importantly if anyone has milkweed and wants to mail me some.....that would be lovely. None around here to harvest. And I’m running low 

If you need some I have some. I grab them when ever i see them and a have a few ziplock bags of them. 

[Livesintrees]

10 hours ago, Buck154 said:

If you need some I have some. I grab them when ever i see them and a have a few ziplock bags of them. 

I’ll take some!