Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Bow-Mounted Cell-Phone Attachment from Ground Attack

Haven't we all wanted to try our hand at video recording hunts? The advent of the web based TV and internet mainstays like YouTube have opened our eyes to the numbers of persons with those intentions. The biggest hurdle, besides an engaging personality, may simply be the equipment required to achieve your goals.
Ground Attack Hunting Products offers you the chance to start filming your adventures!

Dan and Trina Tyler saw the growing popularity of filming hunts and thought that the best way to engage more people in this activity was to develop a system that worked with something more attainable, a cell phone. More precisely, a smart phone. These devices continually evolve with better quality video/photo capabilities than the camcorders that we used just a few short years ago. Your smart phone is now less expensive than the chip based cameras and easier for most of us to work because of our familiarity with something we use daily.

The intention was to supply the person who has aspirations to film his/her hunts with an economical start to that process. You may never want to become a professional videographer and Ground Attack embraces your amateur status. For those with bigger goals (and budgets) the unit becomes another tool to add to your digital production. Many use the cell phone mount to film themselves. See yourself draw and shoot the bow to offer another perspective of the hunt. It is a great way to film the focus and concentration when the moment of the shot occurs as well as the hunter's excitement after the shot.

Sometimes the simplest solution is the most overlooked. When Tyler looked at all of the devices available for mounting a cell phone to his bow, he was disappointed. He approached the problem differently to the meet his expectations. A machinist by trade he knew he had a better solution. An aluminum "barrel" base with a threaded end cap is the heart of the unit. Pairing that with a quiet and vibration resistant phone holder became the more difficult task. After several concepts were tried he found the solution on a trip to a sporting goods bicycle shop. Dan built his prototype and then presented it to one of the outdoor industry's greatest innovative design firms Nite Ize and with their encouragement and support Ground Attack Hunting Products was formed. The Nite Ize expandable silicone wrap offers a secure hold on both the base and the phone and reduces vibration at the shot. The round barrel allows for easy vertical adjustments to align the camera to the shot. The Ground Attack prototype went into production in 2015 and was introduced locally with great results. Those users have found a number of ways to use the mounts for other recording devices as well as their cell phones.

Ground Attack Hunting Products offers their cell phone mount with the choice of the bare aluminum (basic model), a black anodized finish that incorporates the company's GA logo or a rubber dipped version for additional vibration dampening. The silicone wrap can either be black or translucent white.

You can review and order your Ground Attack Hunting Products Cell Phone Mount by contacting them at their web site - www.gahuntingproducts.com. Calling them at 1.785.528.2661 or visit them and other filming enthusiasts on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Ground-Attack-GA-Hunting-Products.

Written by, Shawn W. Harding
2237 S.E. Shawnee Drive
Tecumseh, Kansas 66542
913 748-1749