Aziak Ridgeline Tripod, Shooting Review.

[SawtoothSportsman]

now that you have more time with the ridgeline are you still satisfied with it?

Did you have any opportunities to hunt with it this season?

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

now that you have more time with the ridgeline are you still satisfied with it?

Did you have any opportunities to hunt with it this season?

Yeah I used it on my sheep hunt. Was perfect for a lightweight tripod. I left it with @Formidilosus to use for the rest of the season so he could try it out as well.

 

[SawtoothSportsman]

Yeah I used it on my sheep hunt. Was perfect for a lightweight tripod. I left it with @Formidilosus to use for the rest of the season so he could try it out as well.

Amazing

Would you hesitate to use it as your only/primary tripod for hunting elk/mule deer in the lower 48?

I ordered ridgeline but looking for guidance based on experience to decide on whether to change it while aziak has their 20% Black Friday discount going on.

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

Amazing

Would you hesitate to use it as your only/primary tripod for hunting elk/mule deer in the lower 48?

I ordered ridgeline but looking for guidance based on experience to decide on whether to change it while aziak has their 20% Black Friday discount going on.

Most hunts in the Lower 48 from my perspective are considerably less intensive than solo mountain hunts up here, so take what I say with a grain of salt. If you are happy with sitting or kneeling to glass, then its great, or if you are trying to drop as much weight as possible. I think I'd gravitate more to my RRS Ascend-14 if I was not covering the amount of miles and vert that I normally do, especially if I had a partner to split weight with.
This is a specialized tripod and a great addition to a quiver of optic and rifle supports.

 

[lefthandedasian]

I've pondered this exact combo for a while and I'm wondering how the height difference works out when switching from binos to rifle quickly for a shot.

If you are seated glassing and you've got the binos set to your normal glassing height with the Tricer LP, once you remove the LP and bino combo is the Ridgeline arca plate at a good height to clip in your rifle and shoot? or are you still needing to adjust the legs to get a good shooting position?

Currently I'm running a Sirui Tripod with a ball head and no center post. I've struggled to quickly switch between binos and shooting in the seated position because the total height of the setup glassing ends up being too tall to shoot from. Lately I've been choosing glassing spots that are on a slight hill so when I switch between the binos and rifle can just push the tripod away from me and down the hill a little bit from where I'm seated and it drops the whole assembly low enough I can comfortably clip in and shoot.

Sure would be nice however if I could just remove the binos and pan head altogether and have the ball head at the right height without too much fussing around.

Thanks!