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Trail Camera Tactics.
- Thread starter DaveT1963
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Click "live" on facebook. Start recording. As you're recording it'll show what people type on the bottom of your screen. Pretty simple. I will send you pics if you'd like.
I’d like details of how you stay on a buck to back track to bedding. Say you get a midnight to 2am single pic, what is your next move?
I’m curious about prepped trees vs camera back tracking? Let’s say you put out 6 cams to find a buck to chase. You then move other 5 cams in until you get him pinned down. That’s gonna out you in trees you never expected. So would you prep trees based on terrain and travel features and hunt those as a second strategy for unknown deer and use the cams to go after a specific deer? I know that’s two different strategies but would could you pull them off in same season? How would you blend those two strategies together?
Interested to hear what you look for in a new property and then how you break down that property to scout and put trail cams out. Especially if it’s a place that is not a close proximity hunting spot. I’ve watched all your vids in the past and how much detail you go into with pictures and a binder. Absolutely love your approach. Any start to finish info on 1 property would be gold Dave, thanks!
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I guess part of the camera strategy that would be good to cover is how you rationalize how many you need. I know you run a lot of them, but at 150-200 a pop for a browning, not a lot of folks are sitting on 50 cameras. Would be good to talk through solving for a strategy on a typical size parcel. For me for example I have 300 acres I lease and right now I only run 4 cameras. I try to pick at least one up a year, but it always competes against other gear so I'm not stock piled. Also - I'm 3 hours away from my property and can't check every week. I left 3 cameras this year to simply soak all season and only just pulled them and so now I have a better idea of where to set them for next year but would love to hear more on your thoughts on this. I tried the Spypoint Micro this year as the 4th camera to address the fact I can't get up there often and it worked really well, so I may grab more of them. I have loved the Dark Ops - best camera I have ever owned and intend to keep adding those as I can. These 2 vids were cool - thanks
Good video @DaveT1963 well presented, this is where video trumps words. Having that drawing really helps it all make sense
you now that you say that on the spy point, I did witness that in person - I had mine over a food plot and watched deer from a ground set up 120 yards away with no pic taken - the detection range seemed to be the limitation. I think those work pretty well but have to be in tighter quarters
I have seen deer in front of my cameras and not get a pic, but truthfully it is a spot where they can be walking 100 feet from the actual camera. It is a great spot for deer activity but that is out of the range.
Davie it seems that you still have PMs turned off in your profile
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I have exodus render that I put in that spot, I have been trying to stay out of there as much as possible. The cell cam makes that possible, I guess I sacrifice detection but it is an impressive cam overall
Wow, I’m averaging a 1-2 loss rate only running 8 cams!!!!! Had to weed thru a lot of junk & my Browning seemed to be desirable & walked. A full season soak isn’t an opinion for the ground I hunt as during the gun rut hunt nothing is safe.
Yes the content is great. I’ll post up questions as you go. Appreciate the effort on this.
Yes the content is great. I’ll post up questions as you go. Appreciate the effort on this.
I'm really surprised how many cameras people get stolen, I might lose 1 per year but thats rare I also don't set them directly on rubs or scrapes just trails going to and from there and put them up high, I will usually put some branches or something in the strap to help camo it. I'm sure some areas have alot more people scouting than others, here in FL its hard to scout in the middle of summer. I also buy alot of my cameras from www.snipergear.net, he sells a 4 pack for around $100 and they're perfect for public land. I use my nice ones for areas that are private or that I know people don't go to
How do the Wildgame cameras hold up these days? I haven't bought any in quite a while 10+ years. They would barely last a season back then for me so I switched to Moultrie. That snipergear 4 pack has me very interested though.