This is the author's SR-22 with video camera fi tted onto the mount shown on the previous page. During the off season he can view his shooting sessions over and over again.
second so when you run the tape back in slow motion, you can actually see the pellet go right up to the target (usually a barn pigeon or starling). In some cases you can see it exit with a wad of feath- ers. The PCP gun has no recoil and the
video comes out great. As I said before, recoil is a bit of
a problem as current video cameras are rather delicate and don’t respond well to impact, water, or a host of other potential malfunctions that can happen while in the fi eld. For the recoil end of the problem,
I built my fi rst recoil absorption mount by incorporating my basic scope mount that was used with the air gun, but I mounted it to a drawer slide from a fi ling cabinet. I put a spring on it to allow the gun to recoil rearward while the camera stayed stationary (more or less) on the slide rail. This worked well for light loads in the shotgun and I shot a round of trap at the local range with a Metro barrel on my Beretta while running the camera. I had to mount the camera mount on a red-dot sight, which was already in place as this was a turkey gun. The red-dot sight was workable for clay targets as with no magnifi cation it was relatively easy to pick up the targets in the sight. I have to admit that I got a fair amount of at- tention on the trap fi eld but I have shot trap with my combo gun before with a 2-7x Leupold on it so I was used to the funny looks. At any rate, this fi lming is a work
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in progress. I have been doing this since 1999 and each year we try something different. One thing that makes for an inter- esting video is if you have a buddy on
a shooting bench next to you. You just take the scope off the rifl e and hold it up to the camera while resting on sand bags. You then just coordinate with your partner, pick out a prairie dog at, say, 50 yards or so. Put the crosshairs on the dog and tell your partner you are on him and then hit the record button. If all goes well and he doesn’t miss, it makes for an unusual video. I will edit this into the tape so you have the “handy gun cam” showing shots of a prairie dog hunt, then you see cross- hairs on a prairie dog and at the shot, the dog explodes. Everyone always asks, “How did you fi lm that through the scope”? I usually say, “Well, that is a professional secret. I have this really expensive camera scope system that is custom made.” There is a down side to shooting
this kind of video and that is, while I am videoing I am not getting the same amount of shooting my partners are. We usually carry clickers and keep track of the number of dogs or gophers we shoot. As I spend most of my time trying to record the shots, I am not get- ting all the shooting they are. On the fl ip side, when we get back to the lodge, we can plug in the tape and watch the day’s shoot. I will also record some of my friends’ shots as well (and misses) and make sure their misses get put into the fi nal draft. I do all the editing so when the tape fi nally makes it to DVD you can have only the hits, or only the misses, or a combination. I have gotten to the point that
I would rather get a good video of a shot than get more shooting. As I said before, this system works well for a lot of applications. I have a crow hunting video that does the same thing, only you shoot with the camera on a wider angle, and follow the bird all the way to the ground. I sometimes mount the camera on my combo gun and use the shotgun portion for fl ying shots. If I get a shot at a crow in the fi eld I can switch back to the rifl e and still record the hit. So now when winter has a grip
on us here in Maine and I long for the days of walking in the prairie shooting prairie dogs or ground squirrels, the memories are just a DVD away. Give it a try. It’s not all that dif-
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