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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #15 on: November 24, 2018, 07:46:29 PM »
I had a bushnell agresser trail cam I set up at the end of deer season last year at 4500’. Could not get to it till this year at during deer season. To my surprise it had over 1000 pictures and took pictures of me going to pick it up and had 1 bar of battery left. I used rayovac high energy alkaline batteries. They are pretty inexpensive



He's in the NE corner, it gets cold at times.  It's the below zero temps that kill alkalines. 


I leave out several older model bushnells (the smaller ones) and a couple of the simmons (same size/style as the bushnells, think they were called whitetails)  anyhoo, put them up after modern deer and pull them when snow is gone. 4 Kirkland aa's, 3 pic mode, and they take pics the whole time, even when below freezing for wxtended times, usually pull them in april.

That's good to know  :tup:  I've never tried the alkalines for a long winter soak. 

I already knew lithium were more cold tolerant from using my regular camera snowmobiling in the winter, and just went right to them with the trail camera's. 


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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #16 on: November 24, 2018, 07:48:58 PM »
As the alkalines get drained, the night flash will get weaker.  The lithiums dont do that.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #17 on: November 24, 2018, 07:49:29 PM »
I should also add, my cams are near the upper elevation of wintering grounds so usually not many pics in late dec....to late feb.

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #18 on: November 24, 2018, 08:17:36 PM »
He's in the NE corner, it gets cold at times.  It's the below zero temps that kill alkalines.

This was in the method, not sure how temps compare to ne. Also I will have to go back through and look at the night pics to see if there was a differance in flash. The time/ date did reset multiple times on me during the set. I don’t know if that’s a cam thing or a batteries thing from being to cold. Anyone have that happen?

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Re: Best Trail Cam for winter months??
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2018, 08:33:09 PM »
Here on the wet side of the state, I like to "challenge" my cams to see what they're made of  :chuckle:.  I use a hodge-podge of cams, not really any high end ones, and do my best to abuse them to see how they do.  This one was put out this morning, on the edge of a walk in road CC, on a Blacktail trail, leading out of the most heinous patch of bedding jack fir  you've ever seen.  This one is an older Stealth cam.... We'll see how it does in the open, in the rain, for a few months  8).

Couple things.  Putting the cam up on a slender trunked tree like that...  a little wind is going to blow it around, giving you lots of b.s. pics.  And swing the arm of that mount in so the cam is up against the tree, that will make it less noticeable.

This took me far to long to figure out. Forever I kept thinking it was brush and crash in front of the camera, finally dawned on me when getting the cam on a windy day that the tree I put it in was swaying back and forth

 


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