Video Camera Mount

[Buckrun]

I finished the camera mount I have been working on. The first one I made, I used only one shock mount. It wasn't strong enough to hold the camera up. So I redesigned it using two of the mounts.

Here is a picture of all the parts. You can see an aluminum piece that I made the one piece from. I had to drill the two 1" holes for the shocks to fit in. Then I drilled four holes and tapped them 6-32. These were to screw the shock mounts to the aluminum bracket. There is a hole between the two 1" holes for an 8-32 screw. This is what holds the plastic camera tripod quick release on.



Here is a close up of the two shock mounts and the scope base that I cut down and milled a new slot across it.



This is what it looked like after I used Birchwood Casey Aluminum Black to cover up all the bare aluminum. It didn't turn out to bad. I had to put 8 or 10 coats on it to get it all blackened.

 

Here are a couple pictures with the mount on my coyote hunting rifle. One with the camera and one without so you can see the mount better.

 



Tomorrow I will be shooting it to see if I can get decent video. If there is any interest I can post the video on U tube and link it here.

The neat thing is all I have to do is put a scope ring up side down on the scope of any rifle I hunt with and quickly put the camera on that rifle. I want to put it on my squirrel rifle and video some squirrel hunts next year.

Steve

[FinsnFur]

Good idea. 

The one thing I never liked about scope mounted cameras was the recoil of the rifle is always on film, which causes you to lose footage of the shot actually hitting it's target.