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Record Your Shooting Feats with Tactacam

Published by
Dave Merrill

While attending Sig Sauer Range Day, a camera attached to a spotting scope at the 500 yard range set aside for the Sig Cross caught our eye.

It was a Tactacam, a company who originally got involved with producing cameras and mounts for bow hunting.

Their first scope related product was the FTS, Film Through Scope for $139. This allows a Tactacam camera ($199-$429) to be attached to a scope while still being able to use the scope in a traditional fashion. Or it's sold as a complete package with an MSRP of $569.

Now, we've seen and used similar products before, such as the Phone Skope Skoped Vision Pro, which uses your cellphone as a camera, as well as the Torrey Pines Eagle Eye for which you need to supply your own GoPro.

However, the star Tactacam was showing off was their new system which has an integral 4k camera system and attaches to a spotting scope.

The camera features an articulati USB-C, accepts a Micro SD card, and has a micro-HDMI out.

While there are a number of products which allow to record spotting scope footage, many of them are a pain to setup and can ultimately be kind of janky (we have several ourselves). Mounting was accomplished with a simple clamp mount and a twist; the locking turrets on the camera are integrated into the body.

Tactacam also has an app to connect your camera to your phone for hands-free viewing, but our preference would be to use the micro-HDMI out with a portable field monitor. When a camera is mounted, the less you have to touch the spotting scope, the better, as the magnification level exponential amplifies any itinerant movement.

MSRP for this setup Tactacam is not yet set, but we're told the entire system will go for in-between $199 and $299–not too shabby for a system that includes a dedicated 4k camera. In the meantime, you can visit Tactacam online here.

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Dave Merrill

Editor of CONCEALMENT Magazine and Features Editor for the RECOIL Magazine Group, Dave Merrill has a particular passion for foreign weapons and concealable carbines. As both an experienced writer and shooter, you can find Dave's work across all RECOIL titles to include RECOIL, CONCEALMENT, OFFGRID, and CARNIVORE.

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