New trail Camera

[Jamieb]

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.


 

[Jamieb]

These are what I put out in front of the Cam today, I'll check it in a couple of weeks and if it looks like the deer are using one then I'll replenish it.
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I bought 2 of the blocks, one apple and one corn

[bobcat]

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.

[Jamieb]

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.

[billythekidrock]

Bobcat -
I think he is using the Wildview EZ-Cam.
The same one that I used over the skunk cabbage the other day..

[Jamieb]

It seems to take a descent picture, I dont know how well it will hold up to weeks of rain later in the year.

[billythekidrock]

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.

[bobcat]

If I could get them for $40, I'd definitely get 4 or 5.

[billythekidrock]

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.

[robb92]

Nice pics!!! thanks for sharing them

[bow4elk]

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.