Blaser carbon shooting sticks
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Sound like a faulty one...have you tried complaining to the vendor/taking them back?
I would have quite happily bought them with out the telescopic complication...I have managed happily with a pair of non-collapsible Limulus wooden sticks for 6 or 7 years. It was the novelty of the tracking system that I thought so good.
I doubt I will ever collapse the Blaser ones...if that is the same for you, and/or there is no replacement joy from Blaser, try super glueing them?
Alan
Mainly getting them to the right height and then the tensioners coming loose they just seem really cack handed compared to my viperflex if you dont set them exactly right the back two legs dont clip into the front
Do you frequently adjust them for height or regularly collapse them for transport? I have set them up for my height and just leave them set, carrying them full length like my wooden ones.
I found the relationship of front to back height for the positive clip is fairly easy to reproduce...see the photo back in post #66...but I generally just hold them together like the other quad sticks I have which have no clip feature at all.
How do your Viperflex hold themselves together clip wise?
Alan
No don't frequently asjust , although find my self having to ... if they made these with the same adjusters on the legs like the viper flex they would be great as it would be easy to set both sides the same !
The leg adjusters on my Bogpod tripod are very good...they are cam action clamps which you could increase or decrease the pressure with an allen key...certainly quicker than the Blaser turn collars...but I suppose the disadvantage is the slightly catchier profile...
How do Viperflex get around the holding together problem you are having?
Alan
The Viperflex the legs are always perfectly equal on both sides so no problem at all , its getting the blaser ones perfect that's the problem suppose i could start lugging a spirit level around stalking ... but then would have to find a perfect flat surface as well : ) even if you tighten the blaser ones right up they seem to work loose and are all offset against each other so you cant even line them up ( I understand the thinking behind this for compactness etc)
I was thinking of the other problem you mentioned of coming out of the top clip...what mechanism do the Vipersticks have to hold them together when you are walking?
For adjusting the Blaser ones I slack off all the lock rings. Hold the two yokes together in the relationship I photographed, with the sticks held together and vertical, and then extend all the legs together till the yokes are at chin level, then tighten all the rings...I was impressed that they had made the lock rings so that they all turned the same way for tightening even though two were inverted...
I have only done one proper four hour plus woodland stalk with mine, just before lockdown, and didn't experience them coming loose. Since March mostly used just along the track and round the garden looking for rabbits of an evening.
Alan
Theres like a rubber insert that fits between the legs and keeps them seperate but attached ... Was just thinking .. its the leg adjustment system ie the unused holes that causes the whistling problem on the vipers when stalking around .... but then they supply a black plastic clip round tube to stop this .. which then hides the carbon fibre ... maybe this isnt so easy to sort out ...
@SGArms I see you have looked back in on the thread....did you see the answer I posted to the question you asked me a few days ago? Did it answer your question?
Alan
Alan
Yes thanks
Yes thanks I’m sure I can track just as well with the viper flex 
Yes thanks I’m sure I can track just as well with the viper flex
It will be interesting to hear how you find the tracking system compares when you get to use some of the Blaser ones.
Alan
You'd think for the not inconsiderable sum being asked for all these 'premium' grade sticks the manufacturers would put a little more in-the-field research into their development.
Bits of sticky tape, cut down cycle inner tubes to fix problems that should have been engineered out at the factory just serves to prove what a gullible and easily satified lot we are! And as for rifles 'leaping' from their cradle I'm simply gob-smacked!
Blaser should send me a set of sticks and I'll explain exactly where they've got it wrong and more importantly how to address the shortcomings.
K
Bits of sticky tape, cut down cycle inner tubes to fix problems that should have been engineered out at the factory just serves to prove what a gullible and easily satified lot we are! And as for rifles 'leaping' from their cradle I'm simply gob-smacked!
Blaser should send me a set of sticks and I'll explain exactly where they've got it wrong and more importantly how to address the shortcomings.
K
After a great deal of deliberation, I bought a pair - aided by a few hours overtime at work recently.
I like them, the tracking feature works smoothly.
Price could be lowered if the luxury carry bag was not included, but you are still paying over the odds for the brand name.
Shooting buddy had a play and grudgingly admitted, they do have a slight edge over our Sealand sticks.
A nod of approval from me for these.
I like them, the tracking feature works smoothly.
Price could be lowered if the luxury carry bag was not included, but you are still paying over the odds for the brand name.
Shooting buddy had a play and grudgingly admitted, they do have a slight edge over our Sealand sticks.
A nod of approval from me for these.
Still not heard from Blaser UK's Sales Team.
K
K
I won’t be buying them Alan I would break them within a month. I can do everything and more with my viperflex that I could do with the blaser sticks
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