Greetings,
I am a large animal veterinarian living in Idaho in the western USA. I do most of my birding locally at the Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge. My favorite are the raptors that I see living here in southwest Idaho. I also use my optics to watch wolves and other wildlife in Yellowstone Park.
Several times a year, air-travel will take me somewhere fun, usually Hawaii or California. I always take my NLT Pure 8x32's with me and always try to go birding or view wildlife. I also carry my NLT Pure's in my vet truck and will often stop and bird on my way home from work. I was planning on buying the Swarovski ATX 65 for air-travel and also carrying in my vet truck to supplement my bins. I plan to mount it on a Peak Designs Carbon Fiber tripod with the Swarovski Video head.
While shopping for the ATX, I came across the Swarovski ATC and decided that it would be even better for air-travel. But, one thing holds me back. The ATC doesn't have a shoe to mount on a tripod and Swarovski didn't include a index hole so the scope won't spin or come off of the tripod (I'm sure I messing this description up). It's a very expensive piece of glass to fall off your tripod. Does anyone have any ideas on how to mount an arca-swiss plate so that it won't come loose? I thought about attaching one of the RRS binocular mounts to it like I have on my bins. I even thought about drilling and tapping a set screw into an arca-swiss plate and setting the screw into the rubber armor. Any ideas or products that would work would be appreciated.
I am a large animal veterinarian living in Idaho in the western USA. I do most of my birding locally at the Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge. My favorite are the raptors that I see living here in southwest Idaho. I also use my optics to watch wolves and other wildlife in Yellowstone Park.
Several times a year, air-travel will take me somewhere fun, usually Hawaii or California. I always take my NLT Pure 8x32's with me and always try to go birding or view wildlife. I also carry my NLT Pure's in my vet truck and will often stop and bird on my way home from work. I was planning on buying the Swarovski ATX 65 for air-travel and also carrying in my vet truck to supplement my bins. I plan to mount it on a Peak Designs Carbon Fiber tripod with the Swarovski Video head.
While shopping for the ATX, I came across the Swarovski ATC and decided that it would be even better for air-travel. But, one thing holds me back. The ATC doesn't have a shoe to mount on a tripod and Swarovski didn't include a index hole so the scope won't spin or come off of the tripod (I'm sure I messing this description up). It's a very expensive piece of glass to fall off your tripod. Does anyone have any ideas on how to mount an arca-swiss plate so that it won't come loose? I thought about attaching one of the RRS binocular mounts to it like I have on my bins. I even thought about drilling and tapping a set screw into an arca-swiss plate and setting the screw into the rubber armor. Any ideas or products that would work would be appreciated.
