Quote Originally Posted by yobuck View Post
Well again recoil is the culprit, and the videos do show mild rifles, not magnums. but if you can use it then id say use it.
They aren't really very expensive to experiment with.
Weve tried the ball head mounts as shown on the one video.
Problem with the ball head is side flop when its loosened for movement. Pinning the ball so that it allows for up/ down only
is a must for hunting. But the camera type ball heads as a rule wont take that.
Notice the guy said he had a cant in the gun which he corrected with the ball head.
By pinning you couldn't do that with the head, but could by leveling up with the tripod legs on initial set up.
The Wilton vice company makes a heavy duty ball head mount used for attaching a vice so that it can be positioned in different angles.
We use those rather than the monfrotto type because we can pin them as mentioned. The attachment to the gun we use, allows the gun to recoil
and return on target, even the magnums. Probably not legal for competition, but again, were simply hunters.
Another thing that is never considered here is location, and the type of terrain. Notice most of the videos you see are in desert type areas, or on a
rifle range. Agreed shooting is shooting regardless, but terrain will dictate how you go about it. The target never moves but animals do, and staying on them is paramount to success. If you lost it in the scope due to recoil, finding it again in tree covered areas could pose a big problem. It actually
poses the biggest problem, which is why some spend so much time and resources trying to improve the system. It dosent take an Einstein type mind
to realize shooting from your belly with a bipod is hard to improve upon. But terrain is the game changer, and it dosent take long to get to find that out.
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