Predator tactics Dead Eye Tripod System Review

If you are looking for a well designed tripod to mount your weapon on, let me introduce to you the Predator Tactics Dead Eye Tripod System.

Made of aluminum alloy this thing weighs in at around 6.6 pounds and has a wide variety of poses to shoot from. I have literally shot off of this tripod sitting on the ground, kneeling, sitting on a cooler, sitting in a chair in a blind, sitting on the back of my golf cart, sitting on a tailgate, and standing straight up!

This tripod makes it a breeze to take longer shots because you can lock it down and stay tight on your target if it’s stationary. It has a ball head that you can clamp down with a knob as well as a horizontal axis knob that you can lock and unlock.

If you are looking or shooting at a moving target, you can slightly turn the knob to loosen the ball or horizontal swing and follow your target.

If you have a heavy long barreled AR 15 with a digital scope that you can record on, this tripod will make your videos turn out so much better than trying to video holding the gun free hand.

The Dead Eye Tripod comes with everything needed right out of the box to set a gun on and shoot. Just add the Dead Eye Rail attachment to you gun and attach it to the tripod and you are ready to shoot.

There are many different specs for this tripod along with many benefits.

It is made out of aluminum alloy and has a matte finish. It has rubber feet for hard surfaces or you can screw them in and use the metal spikes for soft surfaces.

It has four leg sections that can can extend to 60 inches high. It’s easy to extend the legs with 3 flip lever locks on each leg. It also has three different angle settings so you set it wide for low to the ground set ups down to 17.5 inches as well or narrower for the higher positions.

At the top of the legs and below the ball head there is a bubble level so you can get the tripod as plumb as possible. Although in complete darkness you can’t really see the bubble.

There is another ten inches of vertical adjustment in the center above the legs giving you 70 inches of overall height if needed.

Below the ball head you have 360 degrees of movement allowing you to swing all the way around if you need to. I use that for scanning when I coyote hunt.

The ball head can be tilted up to 45 degrees and also has a 90 degree notch position as well.

Above the ball head is a 38.5mm arca clamp that you can put other attachments on. This is a universal clamp that comes on most tripods so you can use it for a camera too.

The arca style clamp attaches to the Dead Eye Rail attachment which attaches to any picatinny or nato rail.

I personally took a quick disconnect picatinny rifle sling holder and an arca mount and connected them with a bolt and use that on three different rifles.

The overall length of the tripod when it is folded up is 26 inches and it comes with a nice camouflage bag to store and carry it in.

This tripod can also support up to 26 lbs of weight. It seems like my AR 15 weighs that much, but I’ve never weighed it.

Now that we have gone over all the specs let’s talk about practical uses and scenarios that I have had in the field.

I do lots of hunting off of a golf cart and when I get the cart unloaded and pull it next to my truck to start loading it, I usually pull the tripod out of the case and stick it behind my feet on the cart just in front of and below the seat.

Once we get moving and we start scanning and see something, then I will grab it and extend all the legs and open it up. After opening, I will put my rifle on it and lock it on. Then I take it and lower the top leg adjustment on all 3 sides to get it where I can look through my rifle comfortable while standing.

If there’s nothing or we have to move, I will leave the legs extended and remove my rifle. The I will just push the legs together while leaving it long and lay it across the back of my cart above the back seat.

In some cases we have seen hogs right out of the gate and I’m walking with my rifle attached and the legs extended, but closed together. We have pushed up on animals like this on foot for hundreds of yards. It’s not easy with my heavy weight rifle, but it’s completely worth it when you are ready to shoot and video and take follow up shots because the tripod makes it so much easier.

If I had to make any complaints about this tripod, they might be a few. I can say that sometimes it’s hard to get the ball clamp tight enough. I’m not sure if this is a direct result of that, but I have closed the legs together to move with the rifle on top and had the rifle slide to the 90 degree position.

That move right there is enough to scare the daylights out of you when you have over $1000 of rifle and scope moving like that.

I have also had a mishap with one of the leg angle adjustments and folded it up where it took off some skin on the tripod because I didn’t have it quite right. It didn’t damage the pod too bad, and didn’t affect the mechanics of it, but doing that repeatedly could leave the leg damaged to where it could be deemed inoperable.

Other than the few negatives talked about above, the tripod is pretty well built. Having those things above happen has made me more aware when using the tripod and careful as well.

Overall, I love this tripod and it has definitely tightened up my shooting in many different scenarios. Night time stalking to daytime blind hunting, the Predator Tactics Dead Eye Tripod System has many advantages over shooting freehand.

90 percent of the time when I hunt, I use it.

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