Moultrie M990i 10,000+ pics what am I doing wrong.

[Mxracer532]

K so I have had the cam out 3 diff times and all 2 out of the 3 times I filled the sd card and ran the batteries dead. The last time it was out 3 weeks got 22 pics of deer and took around 10k pics of nothing And ran the brand new lithuim batteries dead in 7 days. OUCH!!!!! Is there a setting that im missing or is this thing so damn sensitive that it catches every blade of grass moving? I had it on a 2 shot burst.  When I set it up the motion light would only come on when I walked it front of it. Any ideas???

[Timberstalker]

3 options:

The tree you mounted it to is moving, slightly.

There is brush or grass in front of the camera.

You have it pointed east or west, catching movement from the sun rising or setting.

Those are my suggestions. I'm sure others will chime in.

[MtnMuley]

Turn the sensitivity down. You should be able to on that model. Sounds like a grass/branches issue.

[mfswallace]

Yep, check sensitivity and most important grass/branches blowing in wind. Shadows little but sensitivity can usually eliminate most of that GL

 

[rover758]

   I just started (this year) using the same cam and had the same problem.  First rookie mistake was attaching it to a unprotected small tree which blew in the wind quite a bit.  It was subtle but I could tell by the pics when I loaded them onto my computer that the "capture area" seen in the pics was slightly different from one shot to another - often 10 or so shots in the same minute.  Now I bolt it to a fairly large tree.  I also changed from 2-shot to single shot.  That helped and I don't believe I'm missing anything.  I just checked mine last night after a 4-day soak.  276 pictures and zero animals.  Checking them last night on my computer and clicking rapidly through them on full screen I could see it was grasses and other tree branches moving that set it off.  I have two sets of re-chargable batteries and 2 SD cards for mine and haven't had a problem with the batteries being dead.  But, then again, I only leave it out for a couple weeks before I swap batteries and pull the SD card and take it home to check it out.