By Jerry Long, March 7, 2011
This week I take at look at the lightweight and highly portable 6” Targus Grypton Tripod.
I want to hunt. I don’t often try to mesh my schedule with someone else’s in order to hunt with them. I go when I can so that means the majority of time I hunt alone. No one to help field dress, drag or take trophy photos. Since I’ve put together three blogs on taking trophy photos, see the Photography category here, over the past two years it is obvious they are important to me. Photos taken on location before field-dressing are far superior to those taken after a hunter gets home. To help with that I carry a 6” Targus Grypton Tripod in my pack or in my ready box in the truck.
The 6” Targus Grypton Tripod weighs just 3.95 ounces.
Priced between $7 and $15 from various sources the tripod weighs 3.95 ounces and can easily hold my Canon A40 Powershot camera as well as my JVC Everio camcorder. As the pictures show it can be attached to vertical or horizontal branches or stood upright on uneven ground. Last fall I perched it atop my day pack as the marsh ground my whitetail buck went down in was very soupy. The following pictures were taken using the tripod in various configurations.
The tripod in use on a small tree.
The tripod in use on a somewhat horizontal branch.
Hung from a small tree I get a self-portrait.
Again hung vertically, I take a different sort of trophy picture than that normally seen on the pages of dvMA – during a mid-winter scouting trip my bow wasn’t in reach. Porky patrol keeps our dogs out of trouble and our trees in better condition.
The tripod was used on bare ground for this low perspective shot that accentuates the doe’s size.
Perched atop my whitetail day pack in soupy marsh turf the tripod worked well in this instance also.
The Targus Grypton tripod line up gets mixed reviews so take a look around and make up your own mind. Another alternative might be the Joby Gorilla Pod, but in either case having a small, portable tripod is the way to go if you hunt alone.
happy hunting, dv
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