A gun and bow camera mount providing an apparatus capable of mounting a conventional hand-held camera to any of various hunting weapons. The gun and bow camera mount includes a camera support having a camera mount resiliently biased against a carriage. The camera support includes typical mounting apparatus defining a shooting vector corresponding to the direction a conventional hand-held camera points when mounted to the typical mounting apparatus. The gun and bow camera mount includes features for securing the camera support to a conventional hunting weapon such that the shooting vector is fixed in a direction parallel to the line of fire of the weapon.