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Title: 1,366 pictures n 9 days!!
Post by: mfswallace on April 30, 2012, 05:49:43 PM: :chuckle:
Just brought my first trail cam set home and man did I make a rookie mistake. On a mid 60's sunny no wind day I thought I had the perfect setup. Today, with heavy winds, after nine days on a trail I saw some nice bucks on last summer, fall and winter I went to pick it up and was excited when I saw 1,366 pictures taken. Then I noticed a small branch waving back and forth infront of the cam :'( I keep telling myself I'm not the first to do this and I won't be the last but mans that's funny :chuckle: :bash: :yike: :bdid: :yeah:
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Post by: Brushpopper on May 04, 2012, 02:17:24 PM: Been there done that :bash:
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Post by: h20hunter on May 04, 2012, 02:20:07 PM: Yep.. been there as well.
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Post by: wormfood on May 04, 2012, 02:51:47 PM: I had the same feeling last year when checkin cams in August. Walked up to a cam saying 1300 pics and was thinkin damn must of been a bush or branch setting of the motion detector, but I was wrong had a herd of elk bed down 2 nights in a row right in front of the camera. !300 pics of cows and calfs just lyin around.
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Post by: mfswallace on May 04, 2012, 05:50:18 PM: Quote from: wormfood on May 04, 2012, 02:51:47 PM
I had the same feeling last year when checkin cams in August. Walked up to a cam saying 1300 pics and was thinkin damn must of been a bush or branch setting of the motion detector, but I was wrong had a herd of elk bed down 2 nights in a row right in front of the camera. !300 pics of cows and calfs just lyin around.

That's cool, wish mine was like that. Just a branch that blew in and out...live and learn
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on May 05, 2012, 04:00:08 PM: Oh boy big rookie mistake......i think i only had 900 on my first set :chuckle:
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Post by: Todd_ID on May 06, 2012, 02:01:27 PM: I did that one year in Kansas. I'd seen 2 different 200"+ bucks from one stand and wanted to get some pictures of them. I put the camera up with a scent wick. A tuft of grass blew back and forth in front of the camera getting about 300 pictures. I was sure excited when I saw the number of pictures, but it was a big let down to not have one picture of a monster buck.
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Post by: KimberRich on May 23, 2012, 10:36:02 AM: That sucks. But I've definitely done it a few times myself.

Once with a branch.. once with some grass.. once it was pointed south and the sun/heat during the day was setting it off I think.. It's all a learning experience.

Hope it was close to home! I was driving about 300 miles to check mine only to find 1500 beautiful pictures of a branch. :chuckle:

Good Luck!
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Post by: mkcj on May 23, 2012, 11:02:30 AM: As hard as you try you never seem to get all the "ghost's" from in front of your camera's :tup: