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Topic: Messing around with the Cannon
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Bryan J
Cap and Trade Weenie
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posted November 02, 2005 01:04 PM
I apologize for the low quality of these, I lost some quality when they were compressed but most of it was due to poor choice of camera settings, lack of a good dead rest, and the subjects were not too cooperative when I asked them to stand where the light was better. LOL I thought that some might like them anyway.
We saw these from the road and plan to go back and call them another day. Heather and I believe that these pictures represent 3 different coyotes because Heather never saw a coyote on our side of the fence until the coyote in the second picture decided to leave.
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2dogs
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posted November 02, 2005 01:41 PM
I like'em, thanks ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Kokopelli
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posted November 02, 2005 01:47 PM
Nice doggy!!.....Sit.....Lay Down......Play Dead!!!
If the price of fur doesn't come back up soon, I may start useing a camera myself.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
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posted November 02, 2005 03:24 PM
Nice pics, Bryan. Always surpised how tall your grass is out there. Kinda like what our pastures are like.
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Bryan J
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posted November 02, 2005 04:27 PM
Thanks guys.
Lance, that grass is compliments of a really wet spring. If I had taken that bottom picture last year you could have seen all but his legs. There is june grass out there that hits me mid thigh. I don’t know that I could have seen more than that coyotes ears before the cows got there. The tall grass is kinda forcing me to look for elevation in spots where it wasn’t a necessity before. There is a good side to the whole deal though, by this time of year without the grass all I would have had to do is lift the accelerator and those coyotes would be grabbing gears, that second coyote let me open the door and lean across the bed that doesn’t happen much around here this time of year.
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Cdog911
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posted November 02, 2005 06:21 PM
Get one good wet snow and you'll not need those high vantage spots.
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pup
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posted November 03, 2005 12:43 PM
Good Job Bryan,
Sometimes they just don't co-operate, do they. Thanks for sharing, and for the really nice shot from you on my wall.
thanks again
later pup
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Krustyklimber
prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee
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posted November 04, 2005 08:37 PM
Bryan,
Maybe you could use one of these;
It's a Marlin 22 stock, with a drop in "action" built to hold a camera... pull the trigger, click, you take a photo (via a cable release).
It wasn't hard to make.
Krusty 
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Bryan J
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posted November 05, 2005 09:59 AM
Man that looks like it could work Krusty, I would have to use some shooting sticks or have something to hold the front so I could adjust focal length, what do you use.
Pup that one you have on your wall is an example of lightning striking since then I have just had the equivalent to extremely bad hits to a fur hunter. Glad you didn’t use it for target practice.
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Krustyklimber
prefers the bunny hugger pronunciation: ky o tee
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posted November 05, 2005 05:43 PM
Bryan,
The weight of it is pretty well centered, since the barrel and action are wood.
What I did was, I glued a nut into the bottom of the action, with the same threads as on the bottom of a camera. That way I can mount it on a tripod, use a monopod type walking stick, shooting sticks, or any convenient rest/shooting position.
You'd be suprised how much more steady the view is though, just by being mounted to the riflestock.
With the long lense, I just cradle the fore end in the palm of my hand, and use my thumb to adjust the focus and/or zoom.
Working out the trigger/cable mechanism was the only challenging part.
Krusty
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