Go-pro Gun mount -5$ and a few minutes

[seabasshunterSB]

When I started diving I was always the guy who held the camera. Since then I have been filming every dive trying not to miss one good shot. It’s true the best shots really do come when I forget my camera and my gun is unloaded. :rolleyes: So I made some things to make it a little easier to dive while filming.

I got a Go-Pro very recently I have made a few interesting projects that actually function very well. My favorite is the camera mount on my gun.

Here are some detailed steps to make the gun mount. This took me less than a half an hour to make and about 5$ worth of stuff I found around the garage.

1. Bent a piece of flat metal into the shape to fit my gun (Omer T.20 millennium 110cm) Using a vise and regular hand tools.
2. Attached the Go-Pro clip on using the glue that comes already on the mount and a little epoxy on the outsides of the clip.
3. Screwed a hole in metal, put a bolt going in the metal all the way through my barrel and out opposite side. Then a lock washer and two nuts on the outside. (This only works with my omer because there was a plug missing and the hole was already there when I got it; mine works great don't see why another Omer wouldn't)
4. For safety of camera I crimped one side of a piece of mono to my reel mount and a loop on other side that barely slips over the bottom of Go-pro housing. (Easy to take off underwater to film without gun)

[seabasshunterSB]

Here is a thread I posted that shows both gun mount design #1 and #2. The first mount I made was good but the mount on this page is much more practical. The thread starts with the first mount I made and the 2nd mount is in there as well a few posts’ down.

http://spearboard.com/showthread.php?t=125925

My first dive video with the Go-Pro, also has good footage using the gun mount.

http://youtu.be/hdSzQ5Dq-xs

[Pankrationist]

Nice mount and the addition of the safety line is very smart.

I love the video. The terrain is so different to what I am used to. The kelp makes for and interesting hunting ground.

[seabasshunterSB]

Ya the kelp is awesome hunting, I cant imagine not hunting in kelp.

[Big Hog]

TheGo Pro has upside down imageing capabilities. I simply roughened up the bottom of my gun's handle and epoxied the mount directly to the gun handle. The camera is situated below the gun and doesn't get in the way when pulling the bands back. Works pretty good.

[Trace]

Nice job on your video.

[seabasshunterSB]

Here is the newest video. Filmed by my brother with the Go-pro mounted to his Riffe. We used the same design. The mount is bolted on using the hole that is already stock on the Riffe. If anyone wants pics of the Riffe mount, I can post them.
Freediving Summer 2011 - YouTube