Trail Cam Screw ups..... What's yours?

[Old Man Yager]

My first year using one, been fun, but I have had a few learning experiencies. Had it set up, and didn't clear a couple of bushes in front of it enough. We go to swap the card after about 10 days, and I got 3,000 picks of nothing because everytime the wind blows, the bush moves, and the cam starts taking pictures of the bush.  . Yesterday, went up to the new spot, after 2 weeks. Open up the camera, batteries are dead. When I set it, I left it on View setting. So I got nothing for the past 2 weeks. And of course the area has tons of tracks!!

[hntrspud]

I have forgotten to turn it on once or twice. Make sure that your SD card is not on lock. 

[turkeyfeather]

I have forgotten to turn it on, forgot the sd card, not paid attention to the direction it was pointing and it was right into the sun all day long (hundreds of pics that you couldn't see). But my personal best was driving all the way out to where the cams were to check them only to realizes I forgot the key to unlock them. 

[wsmnut]

Hung mine recently on a tree in the Chiliwist unit.
Found it a bit down the hill from where I left it.  A molten lump.
Damn.

Wsmnut

[vandeman17]

I have forgot to turn it on, had a limb above it break off and hang in front of one, forgotten keys to unlock them....
One of the more frustrating ones was thinking I uploaded all the pictures so I deleted it from the card only to realize that it didn't save. 

[turkeyfeather]

I am so glad I am not the only doofus here. 

[trophyhunt]

I have one in the backcountry and last week when I checked it I had 2,400 photos of elk in a 24 hour period. I had my camera set to take 3 pics every time it triggered, and it reset after only 15 or 30 seconds.  Oops

[jackelope]

My June to July soak on my homestead camera I had set in video mode inadvertently. Got 1000 10 second videos of everything that moved. Some neat video, only problem is it doesn't video at night via infrared so half of those videos are black screens. Aside from that, that's my only screw up. Had to head back in the next day and fix it. Fortunately not a long walk.

[JFewel]

Pointed my camera directly up a fence line where I knew elk where jumping over.  Got a couple hundred pictures of brown blurs, couldn't make out a damn thing.   

[h20hunter]

Not turned it on. Not brought memory cards. Not brought keys to open the cases. Wrong "mode" and gotten 8 gigs of moving grass. Not trimmed branches. Had a ninja bear pull a slab of bark down in front of it....

[jasnt]

I have forgotten to turn it on, forgot the sd card, not paid attention to the direction it was pointing and it was right into the sun all day long (hundreds of pics that you couldn't see). But my personal best was driving all the way out to where the cams were to check them only to realizes I forgot the key to unlock them. 

D. All of the above!

[billythekidrock]

I have forgotten to turn it on, forgot the sd card, not paid attention to the direction it was pointing and it was right into the sun all day long (hundreds of pics that you couldn't see). But my personal best was driving all the way out to where the cams were to check them only to realizes I forgot the key to unlock them. 

D. All of the above!

Yep, all of the above. Plus going to check a cam that I already pulled. Luckily I was already in the area for another cam.

[dreamunelk]

My norm is to forget the SD card.   Funny, going to check a cam this weekend and I have been wondering for the past  two months if I put a new card in when I pulled the old card.

[wadu1]

Hate to revile this, while clearing grass, branches or anything that could trigger the camera before turning it on ( I thought) (first camera). I paused to  take a leak, guess what it was on. My buddies huddled around when I put the first SD chip in my computer and to my horror it was me in my glory.  OMG I will not show any SD Cam cards without proof reading them. 

[dreamunelk]

Hate to revile this, while clearing grass, branches or anything that could trigger the camera before turning it on ( I thought) (first camera). I paused to  take a leak, guess what it was on. My buddies huddled around when I put the first SD chip in my computer and to my horror it was me in my glory.  OMG I will not show any SD Cam cards without proof reading them.

   I was just out shooting my bow and I remembered doing the exact same thing.