OpticNerd

Thank you! I'd say about 500 yards. Anything past that the quality starts dropping but this all depends on the time of day, temperature, angle of the sun in relationship of the deer and if I'm filming across a big canyon or a flat. What's nice about filming in 4K is you can zoom in on the footage and still have it look good. A good example of this is the buck at 7:05 in this video. He was around 600 yards and when I edited the footage I was able to zoom in on him quite a bit before I notice a decrease in the video quality. Thanks again. I like it. The audio is not very good but I think the video quality makes up for it. I used it for most of last years 2018 coues rut video as well. My latest videoscoping setup is a 114mm telescope. It's ridiculous! Yes I get really good footage out of the big scope but anything under 500 yards or so I find it hard to see a difference between it and the FZ80. Some other good options if you're looking are the Canon SX50/SX60/SX70, Nikon P900 and the ultimate superzoom camera the Nikon P1000. That P1000 is pretty nice!

Here's my camera/tripod setup I used the most this year. It's the FZ80 with a Slik Spirit 150 and Rocketfish ballhead. Nothing fancy but gets the job done. I did get a tripod collar mount that allows me to tilt the head all the way down and to the side as seen in the pics. The head works a lot better for me this way. This also allows me to swap out batteries and cards without having to take off the tripod plate. This setup is extremely lightweight and portable weighing just over 4 lbs especially when you compare it to my old videoscoping setup which weighs in at more than 20lbs. My only real complaint is if it's windy than I get too much camera shake with this combination. So on windy days I just use one of the other two other tripods I have which is a 5lb and a 10lb. Pretty sure that's about it. If you have any other questions or want more detailed pics let me know.

No spotter this year just the FZ80. Not much to it really. I do use 3 different tripods depending on how far I'm hiking that day or if it's really windy. I'll post pics of it later today.

Thank you. I used a Panasonic FZ80. Nice little camera.

Thanks! Thank you very much! Appreciate the feedback! Thanks for watching it!

Glad you like them. Peak seems to be about the middle of Jan for my areas but that snow storm right after Christmas did pick it up for a few days. I didn't see any full on rutting during this time but there were quite a few big boys out cruising. Rutting activity does seem to be lasting later and later though.

Thanks! Good luck on the elk hunt and congrats on the late tag. The only thing elk have on coues is they can bugle. Can you imagine if coues bugled. Holy coues that would be awesome!

He was probably just braggin to his wife trying to impress his lady. Little did he know she was going to be so impressed that she would write a story about this little white lie of his. Haha! All the poor guy was just trying to do was let his wife know she married a stud hunter. Hope he got some nookie before getting busted. The things guys will do to impress the ladies🤣🤣🤣JK. Nice buck congrats to the hunter!

Awesome stuff! We need more post like this. Good luck!

Sweet buck and pic Kev! There's something about coues and snow that gets my blood flowing.

I had something similar. Worked great at first but after using it a bit I didn't like it because I couldn't continue glassing new country when ever I was filming. I like to video a lot and most of the time as soon as I hit record I go back to glassing. I couldn't do this anymore with my camera attached to the head and I was missing out on too much glassing time. Also tried another contraption that attached to the tripod legs but it was too shaky. Cool idea though.

Why do I feel like the top bull is giving me the finger? This must be the elusive FU Bull that ruins all your trophy pics by flipping you off with his antlers. I've heard the stories I just didn't believe.

Hoping to get youth tags as well. One for my 13 year old daughter and another for my 11 year old daughter. This will be the first hunt for younger if she gets drawn so we're all pretty excited to see what she gets. A 10 day coues hunt down south for the wife and a late coues hunt for me. Hoping for some good times ahead hunting with my family.

Do you guys see this concept working for hunting purposes? Either way I want one. Looks like it would be a blast to shoot.

Nothing like the draw lock. This thing is basically an arrow clip for your bow. You just pull the bow back and it automatically loads an arrow to the string. I believe the clip holds 5 arrows. I don't think it has a locking feature but I could be wrong.

I'm curious as well. Didn't the lake have another fish kill this past year?

How much does this setup weigh?

Look at all that red. Down 1560 tags. This makes no sense. Must be a typo because we all know the only thing the G$F cares about is making that money. This could damage their reputation as the money loving tag whores a lot of guys believe them to be. What in TARNATION is going on here!

Learn something new almost every day too bad every time I learn one thing I forget 3 others. This whole time I thought that if I can drive my truck on it and it was on a map it was conciderded a road. So the question I have now is how do I determine if a road has been maintained? Does it have to be bladed? I didn't shoot at a buck this last year because my dumb butt thought the little two track below me was a road and I couldn't shoot over it. Now I find out that a two track is not a road. SOB! I could have miss a great buck if I wasn't such an idiot!

Wow that's some cold pig hunting! Congrats to the wife. Was this close to Sierra Vista?

Nice! Nothing better than hunting with your kids.

This will definitely will raise money but I don't think I'll be buying one. On the other hand I would like to see some Super Tags being made available to help raise even more money. Sticking with the Super theme they could call it the Super Education Draw. Each unit will have one year long rifle deer tag available in this special draw. $10 nonrefundable Super Tag application fee per unit you apply for with a limit 5 choices. So if you only put in for 1 unit it's $10 if you do all 5 it's $50. Basically the same as the current drawing system which should make this an easy addition to the current draw system.

How'd the hunt go?

Not my video but so crazy I had to share. I've seen a few fights over the years but none quite like this. This is just brutal!