A few years ago one of the guys I night hunt with got tired of using camera equipment to hunt with. He designed his own ball head and has been using it as well as perfecting it for 3 years now. He finally did a production run on them at the beginning of this year. I have been running a prototype all of this year and I finally got one of the production units and I love it. I have shot 4 coyotes this season with it and it is way better than the ball head I was using from china.
It does not have a separate mechanism to pan with. You pan with the ball which eliminates alot of slop. Preload on the ball is set by rotating the knurled part of the ball head compared to some where the pan is more of an on or off setting. It will hold my 18 pound ar10 with a night vision scope, shiper hog lrx66 and radius but once you grab the gun you can still move it without changing preload. It also only weighs right at 1 pound. I am obviously semi affiliated with him but I am not getting paid a cent to post this. I really think this is a great value for the money. Check it out! [video:youtube][/video]
It does not have a separate mechanism to pan with. You pan with the ball which eliminates alot of slop. Preload on the ball is set by rotating the knurled part of the ball head compared to some where the pan is more of an on or off setting. It will hold my 18 pound ar10 with a night vision scope, shiper hog lrx66 and radius but once you grab the gun you can still move it without changing preload. It also only weighs right at 1 pound. I am obviously semi affiliated with him but I am not getting paid a cent to post this. I really think this is a great value for the money. Check it out! [video:youtube][/video]