Tricer Bc tripod

[duckhunterrr]

Anyone have some good feedback on using the Tricer Bc tripod? Any positive or negative feedback?

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I have heard nothing but good about any of their products. If you go over Souther Cal Hunters, SCH. you will find several reviews of their products, you can do a Tricer search on SCH. A member there is, I believe the founder of the Co. He goes by Truduct.

 

[intunegp]

Has been talked about a pretty decent amount in the optics sub-forum and seems to have mostly positive reviews.

 

[hoyt-guy]

I purchased it & got their pan head as well. Pretty nice unit, and shaved off 1.5lbs off my current tripod & head setup. Really good quality, and I'm excited to use it in the field later this month.

 

[Tylerdl7]

Looks like a great product

 

[wreckem6]

I purchased it & got their pan head as well. Pretty nice unit, and shaved off 1.5lbs off my current tripod & head setup. Really good quality, and I'm excited to use it in the field later this month.

What's you're verdict? Any wiggle to the setup?

 

[hoyt-guy]

What's you're verdict? Any wiggle to the setup?

I took this setup to Montana on a fall bear hunt back in Sept. The Tricer pan head & tripod worked great when glassing off it with my SLC's. I could grid with ease & comfort. The tripod seem very sturdy, and I didn't notice any wiggle at all when glassing with my binos. I run a pretty heavy Swaro 85 HD spotter, and unfortunately I did have issues trying to lock the pan head down to digi scope. It seemed my heavy spotter was just too much weight for the pan head to handle. I do think if you had a smaller/lighter spotter you would not notice this issues at all. Overall the I feel the Tricer is well built & good quality. Just not the right setup when using a heavy spotting scope IMO.

 

[wreckem6]

I took this setup to Montana on a fall bear hunt back in Sept. The Tricer pan head & tripod worked great when glassing off it with my SLC's. I could grid with ease & comfort. The tripod seem very sturdy, and I didn't notice any wiggle at all when glassing with my binos. I run a pretty heavy Swaro 85 HD spotter, and unfortunately I did have issues trying to lock the pan head down to digi scope. It seemed my heavy spotter was just too much weight for the pan head to handle. I do think if you had a smaller/lighter spotter you would not notice this issues at all. Overall the I feel the Tricer is well built & good quality. Just not the right setup when using a heavy spotting scope IMO.

Thank you!

 

[ewade07]

I took this setup to Montana on a fall bear hunt back in Sept. The Tricer pan head & tripod worked great when glassing off it with my SLC's. I could grid with ease & comfort. The tripod seem very sturdy, and I didn't notice any wiggle at all when glassing with my binos. I run a pretty heavy Swaro 85 HD spotter, and unfortunately I did have issues trying to lock the pan head down to digi scope. It seemed my heavy spotter was just too much weight for the pan head to handle. I do think if you had a smaller/lighter spotter you would not notice this issues at all. Overall the I feel the Tricer is well built & good quality. Just not the right setup when using a heavy spotting scope IMO.

I was running it with a Meopta 20x70x85 and didnt have a problem with it not clamping down

 

[nate907]

ran one all season, super solid. no complaints.

 

[klejeski]

I took this setup to Montana on a fall bear hunt back in Sept. The Tricer pan head & tripod worked great when glassing off it with my SLC's. I could grid with ease & comfort. The tripod seem very sturdy, and I didn't notice any wiggle at all when glassing with my binos. I run a pretty heavy Swaro 85 HD spotter, and unfortunately I did have issues trying to lock the pan head down to digi scope. It seemed my heavy spotter was just too much weight for the pan head to handle. I do think if you had a smaller/lighter spotter you would not notice this issues at all. Overall the I feel the Tricer is well built & good quality. Just not the right setup when using a heavy spotting scope IMO.

Might be rge center bushing. They have upgraded from a felt to nylon and that took care of the center shaft wiggle on mine. Contact them if so

 

[Marble]

I'm happy with mine. No wiggle at all with my Binos.

The plan had is perry good, not great but good.

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[Stalker69]

I'm happy with mine. No wiggle at all with my Binos.

The plan had is perry good, not great but good.

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What ? You drinkin ?

 

[hoyt-guy]

Might be rge center bushing. They have upgraded from a felt to nylon and that took care of the center shaft wiggle on mine. Contact them if so

Interesting. I will look into this!

 

[Dos Perros]

A tip on big spotters, pretty important to have the center of gravity of the spotter directly above the axis of rotation on the pan head. Also understand it can shift when you add a phone to digiscope. Nice to have a quick release plate that can slide back and forth in the pan head.

 

[svivian]

No issues with an 85 ATX….

 

[dapesche]

how have you all found the leg length of the BC on steep terrain. Just doesn't seem like the legs are long enough.

I guess I'd need to be more choosey about where I sit to glass.

Any of you had issues trying to find a spot to glass due to the BC leg length?

 

[Muleys32]

how have you all found the leg length of the BC on steep terrain. Just doesn't seem like the legs are long enough.

I guess I'd need to be more choosey about where I sit to glass.

Any of you had issues trying to find a spot to glass due to the BC leg length?

Did you end up getting one? @dapesche curious if you answered your own question

 

[dapesche]

Did you end up getting one? @dapesche curious if you answered your own question

morning. I would say that it works. Is it perfect, no. It is a ultra light weight, stable spotter though,

I took on a quick bighorn hunt we did. I did have to be choosey about where I was setting up to glass. In the end it worked.

Having the outdoorsman stud helped with the 15s on the spotter by giving some extra height.

With the spotter, I was looking down into the spotter more vs. rotating the spotter horizontally in its collar and looking into it. I have the kowa 883 and no issues with stability.

When I head out for my next stone sheep hunt, I will likely take the BC. It won't be a no-brainer decision to take it though. I'll likely be giving my taller carbon tripod a good hard look as well.

In short: it works. I would have liked something a bit taller. I am glad I didn't buy the AD because that is too large packed up, it's expensive and there isn't a big benefit to the AD over other tripod offerings. IF you're backpacking I think the BC is the one of the two to get but you're giving up perfection for a small, light, stable tripod.

Hope that helps.