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Topic: Bipod mod for Foxpro controller
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Fur_n_Dirt
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posted April 27, 2014 06:03 PM
While I'm burning time through the whelping season, I added a bracket to couple my Foxpro to the bipod. This is going to be awesome to get the controller off my lap and have a left hand always on the bipod! This the best location for me..
[ April 27, 2014, 06:05 PM: Message edited by: Fur_n_Dirt ]
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Kokopelli
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posted April 28, 2014 03:32 AM
The gizmo's not nearly as cool as that pool in the background.
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Fur_n_Dirt
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posted April 28, 2014 04:33 AM
And every once in a while a bobcat will place a nice turd on top of wall.. :-()
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DanS
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posted April 28, 2014 05:53 AM
Did you use velcro?
Nice pool, even has a springboard, bet the insurance company loves that?
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KaBloomR
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posted April 28, 2014 12:58 PM
Someone needs to invite everyone over for a party.....
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Fur_n_Dirt
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posted April 28, 2014 04:41 PM
Velcro works well and it's balanced nicely..
My kids are still young; hence the pool, diving board, and GRASS..
Parties don't start until July!
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TRnCO
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posted April 29, 2014 02:53 PM
maybe it's because of my old mind and the forgetfulness that comes with it, BUT I want my remote hanging around my neck so that it goes where I go. In other words, I've been known to leave a set of sticks, among other things, behind.
Just seems like, from looking at your picture, that the angle of the remote might need to be changed, tilted more toward you, to be able to read it easily. But maybe it's just the picture angle.
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Leonard
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posted April 29, 2014 05:23 PM
That's a good point! I'm scared to death of leaving that remote sitting on the ground next to my stool and walking off without it.
Ever been "lost" in places where everything looks the same? Try backtracking endless creosote, endless piņon pines, or stunted sage. No cheating, snow on the ground or just wet conditions. And, it's getting dark.
I once lost my Higgins Howler and backtracked four times searching for where I dropped it, because I used it on stand but it was gone when I got back to the truck.
There was scattered snow, but it didn't help much. But, you know where it was the whole time? I somehow slipped it in the slot of my bibs and it went down between my Levis and the camo pant leg. Good thing I had the bottom tied or it might have fallen through somewhere. (duh)
And, that's why I don't get up and get an animal until I have picked up everything....because when you walk away from a camo stool, you can't find it again......very easily. And, I learned from experience, you take your rifle with you! If you kick out a cat a 100 yards from your gun, that's BS.
Good huting. El Bee
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Fur_n_Dirt
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posted April 29, 2014 07:01 PM
I almost lost my Foxpro the first week I got it... Shot two animals got excited, and remembered I left it in the field when I got to the truck..
I spent two hours and finally found it.. Nice little strole in the desert..
I hate to admit it, but I forget shit sometimes.. I have no idea where a couple of stools and bipods are!
Oh gloves, I stock them whenever they are on sale.. Its pathetic.
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posted April 30, 2014 05:46 AM
This past season, I was walking in through a stand of CRP and spotted a pair of coyotes mousing about 200 yards out. I set my Ultimate One down in the grass to jettison cargo and made the stalk. After shooting one of the coyotes and missing the other, I went back to get my caller and spent the next 45 minutes looking for it in the grass. New rule: Never put the caller down without first turning it on. If I'd done that, all I would have had to do is hit a sound and it would have revealed itself.
What I get a kick out of is all the so-called experienced hunters who have their $600 smartphones in a camo'd Otter Box case. Seen piles of camo flashlights, knives, ad nauseum. Show me a real hunter and I'll show you a guy that has a lot of camo'd stuff, but the important stuff that can fall off or be set down and lost forever come in easy to find orange.
Of course, just last week, on the cover of one of the major slick outdoor magazines, Jim Shockey's wife was featured in full camo with her guttin' knife hanging off her belt in front of her right hip, right where it would sever a femoral artery is she were to accidentally stumble. Showed it to another hunter I work with and asked him to point out what was wrong. he said, "Beautiful woman. She'll probably be the prettiest dead body they find after she bleeds out because of how she wears that knife."
Oh, and as to the remote. I'm a lanyard fan, too, but it's a good idea. Try to keep the number of things I have to grab to a minimum and those big pods are just too bulky for my style of hunting.
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posted April 30, 2014 07:11 AM
Pretty cool setup, if it works for ya that's great!
I prefer the lanyard for the remote, too, but use it as more of a safety line. Try to hunt in a top that has a convenient chest pocket to keep the remote tucked away in, then just leave it dangling on stand. Can work the presets and vol up/down & mute buttons in my lap, by feel, without looking...
I did a couple mods to my CS-24 that I'm happy with. One was adding an 8ohm tweeter to increase the frequency reproduction of the caller. Wired an inline passive crossover, so that only >4kHz frequencies are going to the tweeter.
The other mod, was adding that cheapo mini-tripod to get the caller up off the ground. To me, just those few inches helps the sound from being lost into the ground/ surrounding brush...
Not a rock solid fix, but it'll balance well enough to stand on its own, and can 'settle' the legs into soft ground to help stabilize it. And the little tripod folds up like it ain't there... 
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posted April 30, 2014 09:27 AM
Good idea if your a stick shooter, which I am not, but I can see the benefit for ease of use if you incorporate sticks or pods for your hunting. In my world, less is more. I even got rid of my CS24 to downgrade to an easier to handle FX3 and prefer to use the lanyard system. I only have five sounds loaded, so I have everything memorized as to buttons.
A short, light weight rifle, small FX3, light handy dove hunting stool and a drag rope in my pocket, and Im good to go. The stool is my luxury item. If I didn't believe it benefited my success, Id leave it behind too, and free up a hand.
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Leonard
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posted April 30, 2014 11:54 AM
I like that tripod, Fred. Where can I get one?
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knockemdown
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posted April 30, 2014 02:58 PM
Leonard, it's called the Burris pack pod. It's discontinued in a lot of places, but found it for:
$7, from Cheaper than Dirt
$11 from Amazon
Just removed the 1/4x20 screw that it comes with, and used a short stainless screw to attach to the CS' TOA speaker handle.
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Fur_n_Dirt
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posted April 30, 2014 07:52 PM
Very nice mod on the cs24..
I saw a guy that used schedule 40 plastic pipe to build a light weight stand for the cs24.. That's my next project.
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