Thank you, Dave, Smok3y, and Gerry for the links and pointers.
YES, this is more the price level I had been looking for. — I got scared when guys where dropping $500 on a tripod. And then another $400 on a ballhead....!
Now comes the feature of our beloved airgun forums that I find just awesome! — Someone uncovers a new perspective I hadn't seen in my ignorance....
Matthias,
the ballheads are "popular" but nobody wants to admit you will be always checking and chasing the bubble on the scope, whenever you release the break to reposition
you will loose the bubble L-R. I can suggest you start tinkering about other options:
Eliminate the L-R tilting (bubble running off).
Much more comfortable to work with
gimbals or
tilting heads.
Atilla, thank you for bringing this up.
Somehow, I
always keep seeing ballheads, and I see the amount of $$ people plunk down on them — this makes it look like these devices must reduce the difficulty of shooting to simply giving the gun a shove in the right direction and pulling the trigger....!
But Atilla says that whenever I change the ballhead the gun looses its levelness of left-right — it cants to the right or left and required to be leveled again — besides the obvious pointing in the right direction and at the right angle.
➠ Atilla present the
two-way tilt heads as an alternative. They just go up and down, and rotate around the axis, but won't tilt the gun left or right.
So, WHY do not more shooters talk about this type of head, and buy this head?
Please, help me understand. What are the drawback of the two-way tilt head over the ballhead? Just that it is not in fashion?
Also, how is a "gimbal head" different than a "two-way tilt head"?
Thanks a lot, this is all very helpful.
Matthias