Gun and bow camera mount
AssigneeDeer Ridge Innovations, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey R. Moody, Kevin L. Moody, James R. Dodson
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Abstract
A gun and bow camera mount providing an apparatus capable of mounting a conventional hand-held camera to any of various hunting weapons. The gun and bow camera mount includes a camera support having a camera mount resiliently biased against a carriage. The camera support includes typical mounting apparatus defining a shooting vector corresponding to the direction a conventional hand-held camera points when mounted to the typical mounting apparatus. The gun and bow camera mount includes features for securing the camera support to a conventional hunting weapon such that the shooting vector is fixed in a direction parallel to the line of fire of the weapon.
Claims21
A mount for releasably securing a camera defining a shooting vector to a hunting weapon defining a direction of fire for recording hunting events and kills, said mount comprising:
- a camera support having a camera mount adapted to be releasably secured to a camera;
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- a connector carried by said camera support for releasably securing said camera support to a hunting weapon, said connector comprising:
- a mounting plate defining a first opening adapted to receive a shotgun magazine and a second opening adapted to receive a hunting bow stabilizer, said mounting plate being substantially planar;
- a stock plate fixed to and extending substantially orthogonally to said mounting plate, said stock plate being contoured to substantially register to a stock of a hunting weapon;
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- a fastener adapted to secure said stock plate to a stock of a hunting weapon.
A mount for releasably securing a camera defining a shooting vector to a hunting weapon defining a direction of fire, said mount comprising:
- a carriage defining a plurality of substantially parallel rails;
- a camera mount slidably secured to said carriage along said rails, said camera mount being adapted to be releasably secured to a camera;
- a dampener disposed between said carriage and said camera mount to resist movement of said camera mount along said rails;
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- a connector carried by said carriage, said connector being adapted to releasably secure said carriage to the hunting weapon in an orientation with said rails substantially parallel to the direction of fire;
- whereby when said mount is secured to the hunting weapon and the hunting weapon is discharged, said camera mount slides along said rails in response to recoil shock from the weapon and said dampener insulates said camera mount from at least a portion of the recoil shock imparted to the camera mount in a direction substantially parallel to said rails.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.