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Community => Trail Cameras => Topic started by: jhawk13 on May 21, 2017, 09:49:09 PM

Title: Summer Trail Camera Placement
Post by: jhawk13 on May 21, 2017, 09:49:09 PM: I am planning on setting up 3 trail cameras before I leave at the end of the week. I won't be back until middle of August. I have some areas in mind I wana leave these cameras but I have a few questions.(Will have salt blocks and a couple cut up apples at each camera)

1: There is a super nasty spot that I wana hike one into but was told that when elk/deer are growing antlers they are going to avoid thick vegetation at this time.This spot is absolutely nasty and dense but opens up into some small pockets. Worth spending the energy to get one in the area? During season the animals like to hold up in this area.

2: That long of a soak is there anything important I might be missing?

3: Is it too late to be getting salt out and get traffic?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Summer Trail Camera Placement
Post by: LeviD1 on May 22, 2017, 02:22:16 AM: I put some cameras in pretty thick areas in summer and still get animals. If they live in the area they live in the area imo. It's never to late for salt. If they come across it they will hit and come back to it, make sure you put it off good intersecting trails to increase your odds of something finding it. I put mineral and salt at my properties as soon as I'm able in spring and then again around the 4th of July.
Title: Re: Summer Trail Camera Placement
Post by: huntnnw on May 22, 2017, 05:30:18 AM: Wouldn't bother with apples unless you have 1,000 lbs to dump :chuckle: not worth the weight to pack and will be gone in a mere few hours. I've watched a bear eat 30 lbs or so in a few hours . Why are they cut up?

Dump the salt and use some scent like apple oil, molasses or vanilla. It's not required to add scent as the salt alone will bring animals in a few days . Secure the cam very well animals like to screw with cams and nothing worse to hang a cam for that long to only have spun around tree or eaten by a bear after a few days. Hang it pointing north, use lithium batteries and the biggest SD card it can hold .
Title: Re: Summer Trail Camera Placement
Post by: HunterofWA on May 22, 2017, 07:56:30 AM: I would suggest putting a cam down near a creek bottom on a edge of a cut or some open area. I just checked on of my cams in a area like I described above and it got a few pictures of some deer.

Nothing big, just a few young bucks and does.