$1000 Tripod Budget

[littlepod]

For a $1000 Tripod Budget, I'm basically looking at the new Rocky Mountain Vector Tripod, or I'm considering getting some Chinese Carbon Tripod like 2Vets/PVA Comp-40 and then a RRS Anvil 30 Head.

I played with an Anvil 30 today for the first time, but it was only for the spotting scope, so I haven't had much field practice. I haven't shot enough off different tripods to really know all the ins and outs, and reading these monstrous tripod threads has me pretty confused.

For example, without really using one of these bicycle looking handlebar torque tripods, I just don't know if I like that more than the RRS Anvil 30 clamp for doing the right amount of friction for keeping the rifle in place. I've mainly so far been doing tripod stages as a back support, not having to use it much to put the tripod.

I don't want to be in the world of upgrading over and over, so I want to buy once cry once kind of state, but the RRS Package of $1400 is $400 too much for what I've budgetted.

 

[Cascade Hemi]

I feel like either go with the RT90C or step way up to a RRS because everything in between just seems like a marked up RT90C. Maybe if the Colorado tripod was available it would be a different story.

 

[RS14]

If I had to stick to the $1000 I would wait for the rocky mountain. But at that point I would come up with another $400 for the RRS if I really wanted the anvil 30. So that being said and you wanting to be under $1000 I would go rocky mountain for sure.

 

[achalmersman]

If the longer collapsed height isn't a problem get the new RRS competition tripod. It with an Anvil 30 will put you in the 1100ish area.

I just ordered the 34L and bh-55-sc. I wanted to fo with the competition tripod because I think the inverted leg design is killer. But since this tripod is going to play double duty as a photography tripod its collapsed length was just too long.

 

[Praeger]

Feisol 3372 M2 Rapid for $575.95 and the Anvil-30. A sturdy alternative ballhead would be the Feisol CB-60D, or the RRS BH-55.

 

[littlepod]

Feisol 3372 M2 Rapid for $575.95 and the Anvil-30. A sturdy alternative ballhead would be the Feisol CB-60D, or the RRS BH-55.

For the Feisol 3372 M2 Rapid, what series Anvil 30 head, and is there a way to get some locking in so that counter-panning won't unscrew the anvil 30 head?

 

[LawnMM]

Use the bowl adapter with the feisol and it can't unscrew

 

[Forward543]

I use the fiesol with their leveling base. The leg locks are not awesome, but work. I like the leveling base better than any other I have used. It has a short tighten throw on the handle. I use the handle for support to shoot, then can transfer rapidly, without putting awkward pressure on the tripod.