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Do camera’s and social media affect your hunting psyche?

I run my cameras 10-12 feet up and have never had anyone even look up at the camera so far. The chance of someone walking through the woods in the off season with a climbing system are fairly slim.
I use a homemade mount that screws into the tree so there is no strap around the trunk to catch someone’s attention. I use only no-glow cameras so the flash doesn’t give away the position in the night or twilight hours. And, I don’t place cameras in areas with no back cover. 3 years without a single camera messed with. (Or any evidence of being noticed for that matter)

How I mount them. It allows complete adjustability.
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If its not to much trouble can you please bring one of these to saddlepalooza?

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If its not to much trouble can you please bring one of these to saddlepalooza?

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Sure. I’ll try to remember to grab one next time I pull a camera.


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I'm not currently using any cameras but I used to when I first started deer hunting which was around 2009. I will say that seeing pictures of deer when I had absolutely no knowledge of what I was looking for in the woods help me stay diligent and excited about hunting. But I soon grew weary of constantly replacing cameras and batteries as the only cameras I could afford were the cheapos that only lasted a season at best and probably ate up four to five times their value in batteries.
Fast forward to today and I am now considering purchasing one or possibly two good cameras to confirm or deny my suspicions of deer activity in an area. I am also going to start hunting public land next year. So I feel by using cameras on land that I hunt where I can use them should help me have confidence in the deer sign that I am finding. I don't bait anymore so there's no need to put a camera over bait. One thing about being on this site, reading John's books(still working on them), and some other information that I have found has made me want to learn how to be a better all-around hunter using all the tools at my disposal including technology. Tv only made me want to buy a bunch of crap I didn't need. And I would say definitely gave me unrealistic expectations of what hunting really is. That's not to say some of those guys aren't great hunters, or just great people in general. I think it's way the information is presented so it becomes entertainment/advertisement more than it is passing along knowledge. I only bring my phone in the woods for emergency use and to mark harvest and sighting data on my huntstand app. This is also the first year that I have done this as I am technologically handicapped but I am working hard to rectify that.
I decided several years ago that I was not interested in killing young immature bucks. Thats not to say that I am strictly a trophy hunter but more of an age Hunter. I am just as happy getting close enough to deer every year to be very easily taken with a bow. I will typically shoot one or maybe two doe a year at the most and have only harvested three bucks my entire life. A lot of people would say that I'm wasting my time and that the deer I am after in the area I hunt are not obtainable. To that I would say the deer are obtainable but am I a good enough hunter to be able to harvest them and if I'm not then they will walk free and I will be happy watching the young ones walk around me. This is the only site that I engage other people as far as social media is concerned as I deleted my Facebook account this year and turned off the cable. And I would have to say this site only encourages me to be the safest, and most ethical hunter that I can be.

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Mount mine the same way. I like it much better than a strap.

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Only cameras I run are for catching trespassers. So I use the cheapest ones I can find.

With my normal job, my own businesses and two young boys my hunting /me time is very limited. This was my first year in many that I backed off my expectations and just simply went hunting. I shot the smallest buck I've shot in years during bow season. I also shot one of my biggest in gun season. The best part of it all is, I loved every second.

I take my phone with me every hunt. One for safety, two for pictures. My phone is a way to reach out in an emergency, it's also a back up flashlight and GPS. I take pictures and send them to my wife to show my kids.
 
Social media? If somebody feels social pressure or anything of the sort, just turn it off. It's not reality, it's a highlight reel. Judging the outside of a person's house by the inside our own never ends well.

Like Dave and Ben mentioned earlier, I may go back to using cameras on public land to make the most of my limited time these days. I had regular guest access to a lease for 10 yrs and so didn't take public land too seriously. I enjoyed scouting and hunting new places on public when I couldn't get on that lease but don't have access to it anymore so strictly public now and need to up my scouting game.
 
A few years back I bought a time lapse camera that turns on at daylight, off at dark. I set it to snap a photo every 5 seconds. I can back away from a trail or area I want to monitor more so than with a traditional motion activated device. It takes several thousand pictures a day for 7 days. It comes with a program to view the pictures at various speeds and even has a fast forward that stops when movement is detected. It takes a while to view 7 days worth. I use it as a typical trail cam at times and sometimes place it in my preset at hunting height. I find that 7 continuous days give me a good idea if a stand site is worth hunting. I don’t really care about night time movement as I know there are shootable deer in my swamp. I use it spareingly because my swamp deer seem really sensitive. It has helped me figure out the timing of my hunts and that has really been its greatest worth. I don’t use it on every stand, just the ones I’m not really sure of. I’m too old to worry much about electronic opinions or assertions. I find that if I can focus my priorities like they should be, then what others think takes on less relevance.
 
A few years back I bought a time lapse camera that turns on at daylight, off at dark. I set it to snap a photo every 5 seconds. I can back away from a trail or area I want to monitor more so than with a traditional motion activated device. It takes several thousand pictures a day for 7 days. It comes with a program to view the pictures at various speeds and even has a fast forward that stops when movement is detected. It takes a while to view 7 days worth. I use it as a typical trail cam at times and sometimes place it in my preset at hunting height. I find that 7 continuous days give me a good idea if a stand site is worth hunting. I don’t really care about night time movement as I know there are shootable deer in my swamp. I use it spareingly because my swamp deer seem really sensitive. It has helped me figure out the timing of my hunts and that has really been its greatest worth. I don’t use it on every stand, just the ones I’m not really sure of. I’m too old to worry much about electronic opinions or assertions. I find that if I can focus my priorities like they should be, then what others think takes on less relevance.
What brand time lapse camera do you have? I used the primos dps for a few years. I agree with everything you said and I like using the time lapse a lot also. The primos stopped working well for me after a java update and it became too much work to use them but I would like to have it as an option again.
 
What brand time lapse camera do you have? I used the primos dps for a few years. I agree with everything you said and I like using the time lapse a lot also. The primos stopped working well for me after a java update and it became too much work to use them but I would like to have it as an option again.
It’s the original Day6 outdoors plot watcher. I’ve had it for several years with no problems. I bought the latest model (pro) two years back. The batteries on it last a long time, it can be set to delay start, and it can take around 1,000,000 pictures on a set of batteries. The picture quality is not as good as many triggered cameras, but it’s sufficient for my purposes. It’s designed for food plots but I use it for creeks and the swamp. On public land I climb to height and use a bungee and prop it towards the section I expect a deer to come.
 
It’s the original Day6 outdoors plot watcher. I’ve had it for several years with no problems. I bought the latest model (pro) two years back. The batteries on it last a long time, it can be set to delay start, and it can take around 1,000,000 pictures on a set of batteries. The picture quality is not as good as many triggered cameras, but it’s sufficient for my purposes. It’s designed for food plots but I use it for creeks and the swamp. On public land I climb to height and use a bungee and prop it towards the section I expect a deer to come.
I do the same thing with my primos cam. I would set it over areas I expected them to travel and then see what happened. I also used it for turkeys too.
 
I'm not currently using any cameras but I used to when I first started deer hunting which was around 2009. I will say that seeing pictures of deer when I had absolutely no knowledge of what I was looking for in the woods help me stay diligent and excited about hunting. But I soon grew weary of constantly replacing cameras and batteries as the only cameras I could afford were the cheapos that only lasted a season at best and probably ate up four to five times their value in batteries.
Fast forward to today and I am now considering purchasing one or possibly two good cameras to confirm or deny my suspicions of deer activity in an area. I am also going to start hunting public land next year. So I feel by using cameras on land that I hunt where I can use them should help me have confidence in the deer sign that I am finding. I don't bait anymore so there's no need to put a camera over bait. One thing about being on this site, reading John's books(still working on them), and some other information that I have found has made me want to learn how to be a better all-around hunter using all the tools at my disposal including technology. Tv only made me want to buy a bunch of crap I didn't need. And I would say definitely gave me unrealistic expectations of what hunting really is. That's not to say some of those guys aren't great hunters, or just great people in general. I think it's way the information is presented so it becomes entertainment/advertisement more than it is passing along knowledge. I only bring my phone in the woods for emergency use and to mark harvest and sighting data on my huntstand app. This is also the first year that I have done this as I am technologically handicapped but I am working hard to rectify that.
I decided several years ago that I was not interested in killing young immature bucks. Thats not to say that I am strictly a trophy hunter but more of an age Hunter. I am just as happy getting close enough to deer every year to be very easily taken with a bow. I will typically shoot one or maybe two doe a year at the most and have only harvested three bucks my entire life. A lot of people would say that I'm wasting my time and that the deer I am after in the area I hunt are not obtainable. To that I would say the deer are obtainable but am I a good enough hunter to be able to harvest them and if I'm not then they will walk free and I will be happy watching the young ones walk around me. This is the only site that I engage other people as far as social media is concerned as I deleted my Facebook account this year and turned off the cable. And I would have to say this site only encourages me to be the safest, and most ethical hunter that I can be.

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I agree 100%. Facebook is awful. A forum like this is an amazing thing because everyone wants to help each other.


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I believe social media can be a positive aspect in our lives, but unfortunately we spend too much of our time reading unnecessary BS. I believe it becomes more of a distraction from what's important, at least for me. The saddlehunter Facebook page that I was a member of seemed very positive but I turned off Facebook because there was just too much other crap that came with the little bit of positive that I got from it. At least saddlehunter.com is hosting a real event to invite its members to have some face-to-face interaction, Saddle Palooza 2018!

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At least saddlehunter.com is hosting a real event to invite its members to have some face-to-face interaction, Saddle Palooza 2018!

I stole the idea from HammockForums.com

When I was learning about hammock camping I attended 3 or 4 group hangs all over the country (thanks Uncle Sam). Like Saddle Hunting, hammock camping has a bit of a learning curve. There are top quilts, and underquilts, and whoopie slings, and Amsteel, and all types of things to learn. Attending the group hangs helped me learn quickly...quantum leaps ahead of reading on the internet. Also, I met some amazing people that I'm still friends with today.

That's what I want to do for Saddle Hunting. Help people learn and spread the love of Saddles throughout the outdoors community!

---Didn't mean to hijack the thread. Back to your regularly scheduled programming---

Trail cameras are awesome. I wish I could afford the cell cameras because I think those are the bees knees.
 
Trail cameras are awesome. I wish I could afford the cell cameras because I think those are the bees knees.

I picked up a cell cam last week. I already know I'll sell my others and run two or three of these going forward.
The cheapest I found is the Spypoint Link-Evo and is their entry model at $249 - and a 90 day return policy. No cell plan required for 100 pics a month, but you can buy a plan if you want more pics. I paid that for one Cudde that was junk. (I have other Cudde's that were cheaper and are great)
I travel for work and am usually gone for a month or so. It will be fun while away from home to see what's moving and has made it thru the season .
 
Maybe everyone that attends saddlepalooza should pitch in 10-20 bucks and help g2 get a cell cam. He has obviously worked hard to make this possible. And if I make it to the event I should be free from this obligation since I came up with the idea.:cool:
 
Maybe everyone that attends saddlepalooza should pitch in 10-20 bucks and help g2 get a cell cam. He has obviously worked hard to make this possible. And if I make it to the event I should be free from this obligation since I came up with the idea.:cool:
I think you ought to set a good example for all the other attendees and pay for at least half of one. then maybe we'll be able to afford to get him two.

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