New property shows promise.

[seth30]

I just scored a new are to hunt on private property and put out my trail camera with a salt lick to see if anything was out there  

[seth30]

I just attached a home made deer feeder to that tree cant wait till next weekend

[doyourtime89]

 

[bobcat]

Great! Looks like the old D40 is still working for ya. Or is it a D50?

[seth30]

I beleive a D40 and it takes 6 D cell batteries

[bobcat]

I know, and they will only go about 6 weeks on the 6 batteries. It's not too bad though if you only pay $1 a battery. Which is what they are at Costco. Last year I was getting the Rayovacs at Wal Mart, 6 pack for $6.00 but I see the price has gone up now.

I also have an external battery that I use with my D40's. It will go a long time on it. The D40's will really suck the batteries down in cold weather, so last winter I used a deep cycle marine battery and ran it for 3 months on that. It was great. But only reason I could do it is it was only 100 yards from the road. That battery was heavy!

[seth30]

I might just get a deep cell battery.  I will only have 6 days to fill my tag this seaso for archery deer, and I will probaly watch this property until the season starts   Do you remeber my postings last year on another property?  I think there was close to  100 pics on that thread and it went for a couple of months

[woodman]

Always nice when your trail cam lets you know whats there.

[seth30]

So far I count 3 bucks and a ton of does.  Next week's posting should be better

[bobcat]

You can get a power cable from this site:  http://custom1enterprises.com/custom1enterprises_002.htm

He has one that will plug right into your D40, and you can hook it up to any 12 volt battery. I've even heard of guys using tractor batteries, which you can get for I think around $45.

If you don't have to walk far to your trail camera location, some sort of external battery is the way to go.

[seth30]

Thanks for the help Bobcat!!  What is ncie about that location is it is a acre away from the owners home and there is a nice tree that my stand will fit on right behind that camera

[seth30]

found the link from last year   Some of the armchair hunters had a few nasty comments but mostly a decent thread.  The property in these pics I have lost access too. They ended up letting a few other hunters on and one of them ruined it by shooting a doe with a fawn when told not to shoot does with fawns....

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,78990.0.html

[seth30]

Here are a few pics of the deer feeder that I built.  I got the idea from 400 out and used scrap wood, and leftover nails and screws.  Put togther with a six pack and expired paint   Not the finished product in the picture but it does hold a bag and half of corn cob. 

[mr_hurricane]

Nice...

How would you stop everything coming out at once? Lets say they just sat their all night eating?

[Todd_ID]

Cool feeder.  You probably might want to test it there at home.  It looks like the corn would be able to all run out without stopping once the feeder part is full.  You may need another strip of wood to narrow the opening to about 1/2 of what you've got now, but you won't know until you fill it, and you don't want it to not work when you get out there.