collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: New trail Camera  (Read 2073 times)

Offline Jamieb

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2008
  • Posts: 1862
  • Location: Lacey,WA
New trail Camera
« on: June 26, 2010, 04:32:09 PM »
I've been seeing a lot of deer back on a gated road I've been riding my bike on so I decided to hang a camera on a trail leading into a clearcut.
I hung the camera and was planning on letting it soak for a couple of weeks but I rode in there this morning and added a mineral block and some other stuff thats supposed to attract deer. This is the first time I've played with a game camera, kind of cool.
Two days hanging I wasn't expecting much but I caught a couple of does on the camera.


 


Offline Jamieb

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2008
  • Posts: 1862
  • Location: Lacey,WA

Offline bobcat

  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+14)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 39186
  • Location: Rochester
    • robert68
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2010, 08:50:11 PM »
Nice pictures. Do you get any that have nothing in the picture? I get quite a few. I think if a deer is walking too fast, by the time the camera "wakes up" and takes a picture, the deer is already gone. But I'm using a Moultrie. Yours may not take as long to wake up.

Offline Jamieb

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2008
  • Posts: 1862
  • Location: Lacey,WA
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2010, 09:07:39 PM »
I dont remember what brand mine is, the cheapest one at Cabelas.
It's only been out for two days, 7 pictures with deer and 5 with nothing. I dont know what triggered the camera on the blanks, a fast walking deer or a bird flying by, I dont know. I'm useing the same type of memory card in the trail cam as my canon camera so I can veiw the pictures on my cannon right there and swap cards if I want.

Offline billythekidrock

  • Varmint
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 13440
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2010, 09:43:26 PM »
Bobcat -
I think he is using the Wildview EZ-Cam.
The same one that I used over the skunk cabbage the other day..




Offline Jamieb

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2008
  • Posts: 1862
  • Location: Lacey,WA
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2010, 09:51:07 PM »
It seems to take a descent picture, I dont know how well it will hold up to weeks of rain later in the year.

Offline billythekidrock

  • Varmint
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 13440
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2010, 10:14:10 PM »
Yea, they seem to work ok.

I have a total of 3. One is about a year old and it is on the fritz. But the two new ones do ok for me. The price was right. $40 on sale.




Offline bobcat

  • Global Moderator
  • Trade Count: (+14)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 39186
  • Location: Rochester
    • robert68
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2010, 11:13:26 PM »
If I could get them for $40, I'd definitely get 4 or 5.

Offline billythekidrock

  • Varmint
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 13440
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2010, 11:28:52 PM »
I think I told ya that I picked up the last three and then gave one to some random guy. Now I wish I would have kept it. They went back up to $60.




Offline robb92

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 3685
  • Location: Spokane Wa, Andrews AFB, Maryland and King George, VA
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2010, 08:14:29 AM »
Nice pics!!! thanks for sharing them
"ITS NOT WHAT THE WISE MAN SAYS BUT WHAT THE WISE MAN DOES IN HIS LIFE THAT MATTERS"


Offline bow4elk

  • Pacific Northwest Bowhunting
  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 3413
  • Location: Olympia, WA
  • Contact me at: tom@pnwbowhunting.com
    • https://www.facebook.com/pacific.northwest.bowhunting/
    • Pacific Northwest Bowhunting
Re: New trail Camera
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2010, 10:08:04 PM »
Nice pictures. Do you get any that have nothing in the picture? I get quite a few. I think if a deer is walking too fast, by the time the camera "wakes up" and takes a picture, the deer is already gone. But I'm using a Moultrie. Yours may not take as long to wake up.

Bobcat, see my blog (in my signature).  I've just added a post about trailcams and set up consideration.  In short, aim them away from the sun's path across the sky and at a ~30 degree angle to a trail (if set up on a trail) about 10' away from where you expect game to be. This will give your camera time to "wake up" when motion is first detected.  Of coarse, faster cameras need less care but it never hurts to think through your set up.  I will often block easy paths around my camera with limbs becasue deer are generally lazy and will often just go around, right past my camera.  See these photos to see what I mean.
Official Measurer: Pope and Young Club, NW Big Game Inc., National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, Oregon Shed Hunters
First Hunt Foundation mentor
Washington State R3 Coordinator

Pacific Northwest Bowhunting http://www.pnwbowhunting.com

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

My wife drew quality deer DESERT rifle 10/18-10/26!!!!! by lewy
[Today at 10:00:01 PM]


Drew Quality by Jimmer
[Today at 09:34:00 PM]


Nevada guide draw Mule Deer by Beastmonger1987
[Today at 09:33:34 PM]


2025 Draw Results by builtfordtough
[Today at 09:33:30 PM]


Palouse buck deer by Shooter4
[Today at 09:18:22 PM]


Quality Swakane by Rainier10
[Today at 09:09:17 PM]


Son drawn - Silver Dollar Youth Any Elk - Help? by VickGar
[Today at 09:06:22 PM]


Observatory quality bull rifle by buglebuster
[Today at 09:00:02 PM]


Anterless 1334 muzzle loader by Bdawg
[Today at 08:46:31 PM]


A little Martini Cadet varmint rifle I have been working on by JDHasty
[Today at 08:43:33 PM]


Pogue Quality by geauxtigers
[Today at 08:38:35 PM]


Ritzville Rifle Buck - GMU 284 by Bdawg
[Today at 08:32:52 PM]


Nooksack Muzzleloader Bull Tag by Ridgerunner
[Today at 08:06:49 PM]


Bow mount trolling motors by Happy Gilmore
[Today at 08:06:18 PM]


2025 OILS! by HUNTNORTHWEST
[Today at 07:46:27 PM]


A question for any FFL holders on here by Knocker of rocks
[Today at 07:34:49 PM]


Last year putting in… by MADMAX
[Today at 07:25:41 PM]


KODIAK06 2025 trail cam and personal pics thread by kodiak06
[Today at 07:12:15 PM]


September mule deer velvet by NOCK NOCK
[Today at 07:10:12 PM]


Share your out of state experience by finnman
[Today at 06:53:04 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal