So wish I had taken one for my son and I this past spring!

http://gopro.com/

i bought the Hero2 model last week at Costco-$199, including the wifi attachment that lets someone operate it remotely from a smart phone. taking it on a fishing trip to Costa Rica in a few months, then to Africa later in the year. will post here after i have had a chance to try it out.

We had a couple with us on safari this year.

Quite fun to have, but basically useless for our tyme of hunting.

It is a very wide angle lense system, so one cannot see very far.

Duckear, in the Tracks Across Africa episode two weeks ago, the PH in the Caprivi seemed to have one taped to the bottom of the barrels of his double rifle. Might make for interesting footage. Betcha he swept other members of the hunting party!
As Saeed says, these are better at capturing wide-angle "context" footage than game animals at any distance away.

thanks for the comments and feedback.

I think they may be perfect for duck hunting.

May ask Ms Claus for one this year.

I have seen at least 2 PH's on TV shows that had them attached to their rifle barrels. even though they don't work well for distance shots, they should be OK when up close and personal.

I took one on safari last May. It is a pain in the ass to turn on/off while on your head as you're never sure if on or off. The biggest complaint was the wide angle lens. It did not give us what we wanted. I have since sold it and will buy a regular hand held.

Every hunting application of the GOPRO I've seen has seemed forced. Too wide for anything interesting unless you want to take footage of the cruiser tire rolling along the road. The only application I can think of that might end up being worth while would be maybe close up on a bait site, then triggered remotely from a blind. Or the inside of the blind itself, where the wide shot would be needed to get the entire view of the blind. The helmet or chesty mount would be cool if there was a charge or something very close, but that's about it in my opinion. can't beat a dedicated cameraman (that knows how to get the shots) with a good old handheld.

They are pretty cool for some stuff, but as Saeed and others have stated, quite useless for most hunting applications. For anything up close, or any action shots that are close or where the camera is attached to the action figure, so to speak, it's great. Anything past 10 yards or anything small, forget it.

It's a great compliment to a "real" video camera if you are fairly savvy at editing video. If you don't want to learn about video editing, save your money. I'm glad I have mine, but it is not a "Do All" video camera.

I can say that I was specifically out riding my horse and filming ducks getting up off of the rice fields last week. I jumped about 200 ducks (mostly teal, but a few mallards and wood ducks as well), the closest being around 70 yards away, and filmed them as long as they could be seen by my eye. When I went back to view the footage, I couldn't see a single duck. They may do okay for the actual kill shots when the ducks come into the decoys, but I don't think they will capture anything other than the fairly close stuff. FWIW

No to GoPro. Great fun for skiing but not suitable for most shooting applications.

I have the GoPro Hero2 that I bought specifically for hunting but after taking it on "rehearsal" hikes I found that I did not like the distorted images of the fisheye lens on the camera. I don't know if they have a straight lens for it but I don't like the GoPro for hunting. I think I'll try to sell it.