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Community => Trail Cameras => Topic started by: HoofsandWings on June 19, 2017, 04:52:58 PM

Title: Setting out the first camera of the season
Post by: HoofsandWings on June 19, 2017, 04:52:58 PM: I dragged a 8 foot ladder through all kinds of branches in the face and found an okay spot. I broke off any limbs in the direction the camera was pointed. Put some of that deer jam on a stump.
I put the camera high up a tree, as far as I could safely reach and positioned the camera. Hopefully, animals 30 - 50 feet away will be captured on film.

I put on lots of mosquito repellant on exposed areas. I looked down at my pant leg and could barely see the fabric through the hundreds of mosquitoes there.
The shirt was a mock turtleneck and I thought I would be okay, but laboring in the heat and preparing the area, I was sweating. The bugs stung right through the fabric. There most have been hundreds of bugs stinging and when I got back to the truck, I had bumps everywhere.
That was Saturday. I was pretty lethargic on Sunday, but better today, although I still can feel some bumps.
I plan to be back mid-August and see if I had the camera pointed right. Then put more cameras in other locations
Title: Re: Setting out the first camera of the season
Post by: emac on June 19, 2017, 06:10:31 PM: If you have the time i would check after about 2 or 3 weeks to make sure it is pointed right and you are getting animals. To me itwould be a waste of all those mosquito bites if in the middle of August you went to check it and it was never pointing in the right direction

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Title: Re: Setting out the first camera of the season
Post by: NOCK NOCK on June 19, 2017, 08:32:40 PM: :yeah:

and buy a telescoping ladder, wear it like a backpack.
Title: Re: Setting out the first camera of the season
Post by: HoofsandWings on June 20, 2017, 07:20:32 PM: Well, if I goofed and the camera is pointed too high, I can verify there are no girraffs in the area. Maybe a bigfoot.
I can return to the camera the 3rd week of July at the earliest.
At that time or a few weeks later, I will be putting out cameras.
Last year, I believe a poacher covered a camera until through with the area. Elk parts on the trail.
Anyway, it appeared to be suspicious. (And yes, I called it in).