I put the Trail cam up in one of my hunting spots last weekend. I was expecting to see some nice bucks but all I got were some little buckaroos. The sensor wasn't where I wanted it and didn't shoot some of the pics until after the deer's head had passed. Pic 29 looks like it may have been a decent buck, not sure.
Good to see that some of the young ones survived the winter.
Enjoy,
Hookjaw
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I need to get me a trail cam...maybe next year.
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Nowonder those things are getting so expensive. Time, date, even the temp. That said I want one. Nice pics even if you didn't find the big one yet.
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Pic 29 does look like a better deer. [cool]
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I got mine two years ago for about $100. It's a 4.0 mega pix, and with hold 120 pictures without a memory card. I usually set mine up for a week and when i get it back, it's still running. It runs on a 6 volt battery and lasts quite a while. I takes good night time pictures as well.
The only thing that frustrates me is the sensitivity. If there is any movement in front of the cam (grass, leaves, branches, ect.) it will snap all of you memory in the first few hours.
Well worth the $100 as I can't get out and scout every day.
Here's a few I got last year up on Monte.
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I'd be scared of someone else seeing my camera and deciding to take it for themselves.
Have you had any pictures of people walking by and how has the response been?
I'll have to admit, if I ever stumble upon one I might stay long enough to
for a second shot then leave my information (email) and see if I could get a copy of the pictures. I'd leave the camera be and hope someone else would do the same for me. I just know there are plenty of "others" out there who wouldn't.
If I could feel confident it would be stolen I think I'd get me one.
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Tons of people have their cameras stolen every year. That's just a risk that you take when putting it on a tree.
The U.S. Forest service has started to take them also because they consider them "Litter" [crazy].
When I put my camera up in a spot, I make sure I hike a long ways away from any roads or trails. The places that I go are usually the nastiest canyons I can find. I guess it's a risk that I'm willing to take. I'm always wondering what kind of animals are in certain spots and how big of buck left a certain track. Now I can find out. The cameras pay for themselves in a short time.
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Cool pictures. After you posted about trail cams last year I went out and bought one myself. I love it. Now if I can just get the animals to pose.
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The best invention for scouting! I love mine, I'll start posting pics once I can get a damn animal in the frame[:/]
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Try putting some food attractant down such as deer cane or similar, I also use Trophy blend to stop them before they get to the camera, I even put some on the tree where my cameras are located and have had elk come up and lick it, so far this year I have pictures of elk Cows and bulls, moose and deer. You can usually guide them into an area that you can get good pictures with out shooting into the sun. I block some of the trails with brush so I can steer the critters in a different direction for better pictures, it's fun to experiment.
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Good idea.
I was thinking about getting a mineral rock to set up, but I wasn't sure if that was legal.
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Here are some of the photos my cam captured over the last few months.
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My dad put a block out on some property he owns just to see more deer. Not only did they come in and eat the block but they kept coming back and digging where the block had been for some time.
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for bait. use apples. put them in a zip lock stomp on them. put bigger peices on braches so wind carrys cent. small chips scatter infront of you cam. also a 5 gallon bucket of feed corn. pour 4 or 5 small piles. refresh piles when you check cam. when you intend to hunt apples. now ive never done as far as i can rember. hmmm must have been a past life memory. lol[
] tree stand method. another thing on the cam placement. put it to catch them animals move threw open to pause at the edges of brush and tops of litle hills going into brush. turn yours a litle to the right. you will gey moore antler in the shots. hang a peice of white yarn in a tree with doe scent. he will pose pritty flared nostrils and all.
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So is this legal???
I thought I read something that said you couldn't bait an area you intend to hunt.
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I have been researching "Baiting for Big game" in the proclamation and the DWR website and I can't find anything at all that says you can't bait them in.
Does anybody have any info on this? Maybe we need to create a new Post about this.
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I've looked thru the proc too, and haven't seen anything. If it were illegal, I think it would say so on page 43 "Prohibited Hunting Methods"
I believe it's illegal to bait fowl, however. [
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I can't find anything either. I looked all through the proc, or 'guidebook'.
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i wouldnt do something like that. arnt you still deciding where to hunt? so baiting is just feading the wild life while taking pic,s. but if you are a real hunter would you use bait to hunt over? situation ethic,s boys. i was saying to do it when using your cams to get better head shots. it works the aples on the tree brantches are killer becaulse they put the scent up in the air. you will have many squirls show up if you use corn. also other hunters notice. apples never get seen.[
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