Very first trail camera (with pics)

[cx2vandine]

Good looking pictures.  How long does that mineral salt last?  How big are the bags?

[400out]

 

[daiello91]

Good looking pictures.  How long does that mineral salt last?  How big are the bags?

50# bags - $9. "Redmond Trace Mineral Salt with Selenium". During the spring rain they depleted a lot faster than now, and I replaced it every 2 weeks. I'm going to cut back to 1 per month to maybe 1 per 6 weeks now that the rain stopped. However I've heard that since I'm putting it on a stump that well after it's gone visually that deer and elk will continue to like the stump on till the stump is actually gone. I'm still new to this stuff so we'll see.


Put another camera out for bow elk and apparently saved it from sure destruction at the hand of a bear today. All the moss I put over it to camouflage it was gone and the camera was turned to half way around the other side of the tree. The camera is in a deep valley, and I was 14 minutes behind him...I'm positive he must have heard me start my climb down and bolted. No elk pics though, only deer so I moved it to another area I'm positive there are elk.

[deerhunter_98520]

hey have you used the trace mineral 50lb blocks? i have one in front of my cam and the deer and elk just walk right by it..nothing is touching it...maybe i should goto the bags instead..your havin lots of luck...i just put out a 50lb of wet cob today so we'll see how that works out.

[daiello91]

hey have you used the trace mineral 50lb blocks? i have one in front of my cam and the deer and elk just walk right by it..nothing is touching it...maybe i should goto the bags instead..your havin lots of luck...i just put out a 50lb of wet cob today so we'll see how that works out.

I tried a block a couple years ago in the same area. It got used, but not nearly as much as the bags.

[daiello91]

Ran out after work and checked this cam. My buck group of 4 seems to have split up and the big 5 point hasn't been back since the 3rd, a couple of the others came in solo. Hoping he comes back.





big fork horn


smaller fork


first set of fawns I've seen this year


huge sow & cub




Pretty sure this is the same bear that comes by once every month or so


another fawn finally


It was a busy 17 days on the camera. Still hopeful the big 5 point comes back around.

[cx2vandine]

 

[engelwood]

...maybe i should goto the bags instead..your havin lots of luck...i just put out a 50lb of wet cob today so we'll see how that works out.

Hey Deerhunter, good luck with that wet cob.... I put that stuff out a month or so ago and got A GAZILLION pictures of ravens/crows!!!!! Let me tell ya, you are going to get a ton of bird pictures...no fun at all. And for whatever reason, the deer and elk stopped coming by on the wet cob and came right back when I got rid of it and put out the mineral rocks again. Good luck, but I wouldn't suggest wet cob to anyone due to my experience. 

[daiello91]

Another spot I setup a couple weeks ago:

Twins are getting bigger.


This guy has some odd antler growth, looks to be three spikes on the one side.


Nice young fork with him


Bears checking out the cam again, left it alone though. Seems to be a young sow with a cub.




Mangy mutt

[turkey buster]

nice lob those are great pics, I love the one of the sow and cub

[carpsniperg2]

  very nice sow cool pics