Monday 4 January 2010

Nice idea, more work needed



Wouldn't it be interesting to rig up a video camera looking straight down the gun barrels, so you could see how the gun tracks the bird, maybe even follow the shot pattern and see the lead required to hit a driven pheasant?

That's what I thought, so last night I spent some time destroying one of my favourite Musto caps in order to fit a lightweight video camera to the peak. And today I wore it on a couple of drives to see how it would work out.

And the results... not quite what I'd intended. First the cap fell off as I swung on an overhead bird...


Then it fell off again...


And finally I took a beautiful right-and-left (or under-and-over in fact), only to discover that the camera wasn't aligned with the barrels at all, and I was actually filming the breech end of the barrels.


Ah well, back to the drawing board (and probably taking a knife to another Musto cap). Still, it was a beautiful day to be out, I shot a couple of brace and I won the sweep, so I'm not complaining!


 
 

2 comments:

vicky said...

You need somethind small and glasses frame mounted- somehing a bit james bond!Or a micro cam in the sighting bead!!!!! Perhaps if you didn't mind only having one barrel a camera could be fitted in the other one?

Hunter Angler Gardener Cook said...

I know the great shooter Tom Knapp who works with Benelli has a "shot cam," so it can be done. Maybe if you contacted Benelli?