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Title: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: butcher98951 on October 07, 2011, 08:25:06 PM: So i just got 2 new trophy cams, going to put them out on monday and was just trying to find out what the best settings you might have found to put them on for the best pics.. thanks.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: gottatree on October 07, 2011, 09:11:14 PM: They work great on all settings, I set my mega pixels to the max. I have some 5 and a couple 8 mega pixels Bushnell's. My only recommendation is DO NOT set it on the high sensitivity mode. You will have a 1000 pics of leaves blowing in the wind.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: sebek556 on October 07, 2011, 09:18:24 PM: the best settings I have found so far are... in a lock box both lag bolted and chained to a tree :sas:
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: UptheCreek on October 08, 2011, 01:43:06 PM: Depending on your memory card, I have been putting mine at 1 pic every 3 minutes. If you don't check it every few weeks you might want to increase the time between pics to 8-10 minutes so you don't completely fill the memory card up. I have been using a 4meg card in mine and it can hold over 1,000 pics but I think they can take up to an 8 meg card.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: Alan K on October 08, 2011, 03:06:52 PM: UptheCreek, I'm sure you mean gig cards rather than meg cards. There's a big difference there! :chuckle:

But yeah, along with what UptheCreek said, the goal is to get the most pictures you can without maxing out your card in however long you plan to leave your camera out there. As far as I'm concerned you can never get too many angles of a rack etc.

If you're setting up over a game trail or in a bedding area, you can easily get away with 3 pictures per 1 minute if you're checking it at all regularly and have a 2+ GB card. Over bait though, is another story and I can't help you there. I'd imagine you'd get several times the pictures so you have to either drop the amount of pictures per triggering, increase the time between pictures, or simply buy a bigger memory card. The latter is the best option in my opinion if you can swing it. I bought a couple 16 GB cards, and they will never fill up taking as many pictures as possible on a game trail unless I leave the camera for the full year of battery life.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: h20hunter on October 08, 2011, 05:31:54 PM: I've about tried em all. I like a 3 shot burst with 15 second interval. Vid capture works well but you will eat up your memory card in a hurry. If you don't trim brush dial down the sensitivity.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: fishcrazy on October 09, 2011, 09:08:25 AM: I put them on video. Don't have problems filling up cards. I had a cam on an elk wallow for 1 month with a 2gb card. I had it set for 60 second vids with a 6 second delay. Got 50 vids. You could set it for 15 seconds if you think you will get lots of shots. Video gives much better view of the animals.

Kris
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: woodman on October 09, 2011, 09:27:02 AM: Quote from: gottatree on October 07, 2011, 09:11:14 PM
They work great on all settings, I set my mega pixels to the max. I have some 5 and a couple 8 mega pixels Bushnell's. My only recommendation is DO NOT set it on the high sensitivity mode. You will have a 1000 pics of leaves blowing in the wind.

This is very true, I used high sensitivity mode at first and my card filled within hours with 2169 pictures. I could tell by the time stamp. Then it just sat there and could not take any more pics when animals came by until I changed out the card and reset the sensitivity. After that I set it on normal and on three shot increments because I got tired of getting just part of an animal when it was first coming into view.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: SkookumHntr on October 09, 2011, 09:37:43 AM: I checked mine the other day and I got no pics and it said card had to be formated?? God I was pissed!! >:(
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: butcher98951 on October 09, 2011, 05:47:16 PM: Thank you everyone for your help i think since i got two cams i will try each different to see which way works the best for the area i put them in.. Lock box and lagbolts i am thinking about it is private land but i know people still go out there when there not to.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: UptheCreek on October 09, 2011, 09:47:50 PM: oops, i did mean gigs not megs!
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: billythekidrock on October 19, 2011, 08:24:03 PM: I set mine in 3 shot mode with 1-3 seconds between bursts or just put it on video.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: Arteman on October 20, 2011, 08:38:33 PM: I don't know about the settings, but mine won't take night pics out in the field but will when I'm at home, I have the all black low glow IR model with the LCD screen, I know this because I have over 350 deer and bear pics on cam during the day but nothing at night, and one time early in the evening one came in and I had apples cut up an tossed all over the place for deer, and they were all still in that pic, but the next pic was morning with a doe and everything was gone, according to my manual you use different setting (high, normal, low) for different temps. Anyways, also was told SanDisk cards work the best for Bushnell. Maybe I have a lemon. :dunno:
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: butcher98951 on October 21, 2011, 04:56:10 PM: Well i got a late start on hanging the cams up, set them up last sat and have about 90 pics of bear and a couple coyotes, good thing i waited for the cam lock boxes to get here before hanging tem because i had one bear try eating the pad lock off of it, so here is a couple pics.
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Post by: wablkandtan on October 26, 2011, 09:04:19 PM: Nice pics. Post one of the toad you were telling me about.
Title: Re: Buhnell Trophy Cam, Whats the best settings
Post by: butcher98951 on October 27, 2011, 09:24:45 PM: so what do you guys think this bear weighs? it is a different cam and the times and dates are wrong but i got these on Oct 24 at around 3 am