Leupold spotter mount

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Can any one identify the mount in this photo?

 

[Akeld]

Manfroto with Manfrot0 horizontal pistol grip I think

 

Edit: Just realised you said mount, http://www.laruetactical.com/larue-tactical-spotr looks similar

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Bugger thought some one would point out the rc322 pistol grip. My fault for not specifying.

 

It's the inverter that I am after. Don't worry about the tripod or grip.

 

 

Thanks any how.

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Seen the edit, not sure it's the one. Larue has the picatinny base.

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After a few hours I tracked it down. Working off the phone sucks.

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[brown dog]

Wow, that looks pretty insanely over-designed.

 

What you need is to find a gifted engineer who also has a Mk4 and ask him to knock up a few of these (without all the picatinny nonsense):

 

http://www.ashburyprecisionordnance.com/tactical-interface-mount/?expandable=3

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They do a simple cage I believe is the mark 1. I will email for price and availability. I like the ability to put a rangefinder on the cage.

[brown dog]

They do a simple cage I believe is the mark 1. I will email for price and availability. I like the ability to put a rangefinder on the cage.

 

How would you collimate the LRF and scope?

 

Be a bit of luck if they both happened to do up tight and be perfectly parallel, I'd have thought one of them would have to be adjustable and lockable.

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http://mdcharlton.ca/disc-inverter-leupold-spotting-scope.html

 

Not quite sure on the mount yet. If it's extraordinarily expensive it's in the "would like" list so I won't pursue.

[TC]

 

How would you collimate the LRF and scope?

 

Be a bit of luck if they both happened to do up tight and be perfectly parallel, I'd have thought one of them would have to be adjustable and lockable.

 

Then you end up needing one of these...

 

http://www.ashburyprecisionordnance.com/electro-optic-rail-grabber-clrf-lrti/

 

Madness at $600+, all the Ashbury gear seems way over priced. I managed to pick one up for $200 from SH but have not seen another for sale.

 

The TIM from Ashbury forces you to hang everything off the left side of the tripod and I wanted to go from the right. I ended up making up a plate with Manfrotto bases bolted to it which gives me a few options and still QD. I can take some pics later if anyone is interested..

 

If all you want to do is simply invert the spotter using a hog saddle works well.

 

Tony

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As I am not on a two way range the inverter is a bonus, it was the ability to mount the lrf on the cage that got my interest.

 

Tony, Did you sell your hog saddle?

[TC]

As I am not on a two way range the inverter is a bonus, it was the ability to mount the lrf on the cage that got my interest.

 

Tony, Did you sell your hog saddle?

 

Once you have ranged and moved to spotting there is not massive benefit in collimating the spotter and lrf, I simply had a bar with two manftotto bases on it and a plate on the bottom that worked for me, the adjustable mount just happened to come up cheaply.

 

I was not selling the hog saddle Dave. You are welcome to borrow it for a play if you are thinking of getting one, we need to arrange getting that other item to you too....

 

Tony

[brown dog]

As I am not on a two way range the inverter is a bonus, it was the ability to mount the lrf on the cage that got my interest.

 

Tony, Did you sell your hog saddle?

 

 

Scotch, you could make what you're after for a few quid - aluminium bar with two or three holes drilled in it. One to attach the tripod QR plate and scope (sandwich the bar between qr plate and scope) and , with the bar sticking out to left or right, another for a standard tripod screw to attach the LRF.

If you're feeling fancy, you could put a 90deg bend in the bar to have the LRF up the side of the spotter.

[brown dog]

 

Once you have ranged and moved to spotting there is not massive benefit in collimating the spotter and lrf,

 

 

 

If they're not collimated, I'm missing the benefit you're deriving from co-mounting (other than looks gucc?!)

[TC]

 

If they're not collimated, I'm missing the benefit you're deriving from co-mounting (other than looks gucc?!)

 

I found that to get reliable reading on small targets at range then mounting the lrf on the tripod gave better results, even more so with a magnifier on the lrf.

 

So, remove spotter from tripod, put it down in mud, fit lrf, range, put back in pocket, swap etc OR have both on tripod, range, adjust head back to spot.

 

Having the collimator mount avoids the last step but it's $700 and some ITAR fun unless you can find one cheap....

 

Now if we were being Gucci we would collimate, look through the spotter and just hit the button on the cable between the plrf and Trimble

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Not really worth the hassle or cost for pesky crows.

 

Always a nice thought. I have though found something on eBay watch this space

 

Tony PM in coming.

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Not really worth the hassle or cost for pesky crows.

 

Always a nice thought. I have though found something on eBay watch this space

 

Tony PM in coming.

 

Agreed, I've never used it within 600 yds, it just made a fun Sunday project