Cellphone mount for crossbow

[Eddy22]

Hey guys does anyone us their phone to film hunts? If you do how are you attaching it to your crossbow? Bought or made...thanks

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[Doug]

I got this one last year, worked well. http://crazyarchery.com/shop/crossbow-scope-mount/

[Eddy22]

Thanks, says it's outta stock.

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[Doug]

Thanks, says it's outta stock.

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Keep watching, they were out of stock when I was looking too, eventually the status changed as stock arrived.

[Eddy22]

Ended up buying this one from game stick. Half the price at 24.99 us. See how it works will post later

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[paultracy]

Just make sure it doesn't compromise an ethical hunt and distract you from making the ideal shot. You know just like distracted driving! Not trying to be an but when I go hunting it is more about the experience and the opportunity to share some meat with my family and friends rather than a you tube video!
Paul

[Eddy22]

I don't have a YouTube channel or anything just thought it would be cool. Might help on unsure shots if you can rewatch iand see where you hit or how the animal reacts

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[Doug]

Just make sure it doesn't compromise an ethical hunt and distract you from making the ideal shot. You know just like distracted driving! Not trying to be an but when I go hunting it is more about the experience and the opportunity to share some meat with my family and friends rather than a you tube video!
Paul

I do have a YouTube channel, you can see some hunts, some wild life, my backyard. a bicycle ride, its not about me being anybody's hero, its just another way of showing pictures, excepting they move.

I did have my scope mount on this week, I did video tape my hunt, it didn't turn out like I wanted; but the video showed me why. Here is a cut-and-paste off another forum from earlier this week, followed by the video.

The landowners were busy, spreading manure, turning soil, and combining corn, a lot of activity in the fields. I chose a stand in a bush that had shown a of doe action all summer long, thinking where the does are the bucks will be too. I got into my stand around 3pm, saw nothing until 4ish when a single doe walked east to west well outside bow range, she had been bedded down in the corner of the bush. About 5:10 I notice her coming back, her trail would put her in range. I purchased a scope mount for my cell phone, so I got it going and prepared my self. I stopped her in a shooting lane, squeezed the trigger and watched her jump, she went down, at least I though she had, then she was up and going away, she stopped, looked back, I saw blood on her side... too far back for my liking, then she started to walk away. I got down, went to my bolt to inspect it, nothing on the broadhead, a few hairs on the shaft, some smears on a single vein? I smelt it thinking guts... nothing. I looked for and found some bright red blood, side by side she must be bleeding from both sides, a pass thru! I could follow drops at a walk for 10', then it was splotches here and there, I marked the spots with flagging tape, I kept on until I hit a wall of canes. I had tried to review the video; but with the small screen on the camera, a lighted nock, I could not be sure of shot placement. I backed out to give her time, walked back to the farm house, unloaded the side by side and drove around the edge of the hay field, I have not prepped this bush, so I left the UTV in the field and proceeded to follow blood. Less and less, becoming harder and harder to find, I kept on it. A flashlight died, leaving me with a LED lantern and two headlamps. I would leave the lantern on a limb over last blood and carry on the blood, then leave a headlight in a tree, go back and bring the lantern up to last blood, I kept this up. Finally I called, and my father ran out some flashlight to me, the headlights just were not good enough. With them in hand I made better progress, I made it to the fence line in the bush, got the neighbouring landowner's info, we have met a few times in regards to my environmental volunteer groups, I made the call received permission to carry on. The blood was getting a whole lot less, and a whole lot further apart 10+ yards; but I kept going. The I hit it, last blood, I searched in the direction I thought she was going, nothing, I grid searched, nothing. I was drawing a blank! I was 9:40pm, I had been on the blood trail since 5:30pm, sure it had been hard at times; but after this long to find no blood was disappointing to say the least, for the past 4 hours I had been expecting to find her, now I was faced with no other option other than to back out for the night. I had to pick up my pup at my parents, then went home, I loaded the video onto my laptop. I was surprised, relieved, disappointed all at once... she had ducked my string, I had given her a flesh wound. This explained why I saw blood on both side of her trail, why I saw blood on her side, why the blood was bright red, and why the blood trail became less and less as the wound congealed. A shot that she could/should survive, regardless this morning I called to the second landowner to again ask for permission to access his property once more. I picked up from where I was last night at last blood, it took me an hour in the sunlight to find a few drops of blood, like a hound I was back on the trail, I found a second and third spot fairly quickly, then nothing, another hour before I found a fourth spot, I never did find a fifth drop of blood after over 2 hours. Knowing what the video showed me, and the lack of any blood trail to follow further, I had to call it. I am hoping to see her on a trail camera to confirm my suspicions that she survived this shot.

I had bought the cell phone holder because I thought it would be kinda cool to have videos of some of the deer I shoot; but I never thought about how handy it would be in a situation like I had last night. I am glad I had it, otherwise I would have continued to think, a bad shot, a pass thru, possibly a liver shot, any one of the possible situations. I am glad I had the camera.


https://youtu.be/8ZNgE3bCEhw