Smoke: The Ultimate Air Movement Detector
This high-visibility smoke is the best way to check wind in bright-light or low-light conditions. This bottle will last a lot longer than heavier powder options.
Unscented.

Shake to mix bottled powder and air, flip spout, squeeze and watch the smoke.

"The saying goes “Where there’s smoke there’s fire”, not in the case of the new “Ambush Smoke” wind check. With each squeeze of its plastic bottle shot a puff of “smoke” into the air.

Bowhunters need the wind on their side to get into bowrange and I have used some method of checking the wind since I started bowhunting.  Once upon a time I used a cigarette lighter to do this.

Graduating to bottles of powder made it a lot easier to see what the wind was doing. Ambush Smoke is a huge improvement again. Ambush smoke comes in a variety of forms; the two I tested were the Low Light and the Bright Light. Instead of producing a fine powder from the bottle which falls to the ground fairly quickly Ambush Smoke powder looks just like smoke when it is ejected from the bottle. Instead of heading downward the smoke stays suspended in the air allowing you to see the wind direction in 3D. I have been surprised just how often the wind drifts up and away from its apparent horizontal flow. The smoke can hang in the air for several seconds and in the case of the Bright Light its purple colour made it possible to see. On a recent trip after fallow I was able to put this feature to good use. A doe fell victim to my bottle of “Ambush Smoke”. Hunting in the early morning I spotted three fallow deer feeding on a bush edge above me. The morning air was slowly drifting uphill and seemingly towards the deer. Using my bottle of “Smoke” I could see where my scent would be going. Rather than drifting upwards directly to the feeding mob I could see the smoke drifting uphill by me but as it moved uphill away from me I could see it drifting skyward, high above me. From this I felt comfortable my scent would not betray my presence. Fifteen minutes later I was at full draw on a feeding doe, game over.

The Bright Light smoke is purple and easy to see in daylight hours while the Low Light smoke is yellow and is more visible at dawn and dusk although I found both were clearly visible during daylight hours.

An unexpected bonus after two five day guiding stints and five day trip for me was the original bottle of Smoke I started out with was still going strong. With the previous product I had used I would typically go through 2 bottles in a five day hunt.

I was more than impressed with this product; it was at a level way ahead of anything else I had used in longevity and effectiveness in the field. Ambush Smoke is now a permanent fixture in my hunting kit."

-The Advanced Archery Team