Game Cam pictures

[EddieWalker]

We gave up on our latest camera location. Maybe another time we'll try that area, but yesterday Steph wanted to move it to our good feeder. We have two feeders. One is a cheapy Walmart Moultree that hangs from a chain off of a tree and has a five gallong bucket with the feeder under it. We keep it down by the creek near our lake.

The good feeder holds 200 pounds of feed at a time and is much, much nicer. It's in a field we cleared a few years ago and about 200 yards out our back door. We can see it from the house with a spotlight at night, or anytime during the day.

It's surrounded by grass and out in the open, so we needed something to attach the game camera to. I have some old T Posts and thought that would be a simple job to push them in with the backhoe. Nope, we hit something solid with four different posts and either bent them, or snaped them.

Steph said I was wasting time and to go put the post hole digger on the little tractor. I didn't want to as I've been using the rake on it lately. But as always, she was right and after doing it the hard way and failing, I took her advice.

We drilled the hole, put one of my cedar posts that I'm collecting in there and packed it down. New batteries in the game cam and we were all set.

No hogs or deer last night, but this morning it cought something new!!!!

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

The new location is paying off. We had 144 pictures of this guy from 7:14 pm to 11:27 pm. Yeah, for over four hours, he was there eating corn two hundred yards out our back door!!!!

Eddie

 

[CurlyDave]

Yeah, for over four hours, he was there eating corn two hundred yards out our back door!!!!

That's why they are called hogs!

 

[jinman]

No hogs or deer last night, but this morning it cought something new!!!!

Eddie

Eddie, I don't think that critter will be eating any of your corn.

I don't have a Game Cam, but my Kathy-Cam is working good. She takes these pictures during the day while I'm at work. Here is one of her latest.

 

[gsganzer]

Jim,
The picture of the turkeys is killing me. I've been counting the months, days, hours and minutes to the start of our spring turkey season since the close of the season last year.

I don't know what it is about spring turkey hunting, but I find it to be the most addicting thing. I don't even care if I get a bird. I just love getting up at the crack of dawn, cruise the woods, find a place to set up and try working a Tom. It must be the signal of the "start of spring" or something. I just find it so peaceful and rewarding.

 

[jinman]

Jim,
The picture of the turkeys is killing me....

Well, if that one is killing you, then this attachment will put you "over the top."

Just as I was getting the picture ready to post, Kathy told me we had a yard full of turkeys. I tried to get a picture of the big Tom strutting his stuff just about 25 feet off our deck, but he heard me and walked away (not ran, just walked). Anyhow, there are four big toms and about 12 hens in the yard right now. They are our pets or I would just sit out on the deck with a cup of coffee and my gun and pick off a trophy the easy way.

 

[EddieWalker]

Jim,

Great pics of the turkeys!!! Thanks for sharing them. My dream is to have wildlife in my front yard, or at least someplace close by that we can see on a regular basis. One day I'd love to have pictures just you yours!!

Gordon,

I've only hunted turkey one season and honestly thougt I wasn't going to get one. Three weeks of only seeing them across a canyon, or hearing them call from a distance, but never being able to find them. Then we got lucky. We had been out all morning without hearing a thing. We'd given up and were walking back up out of a canyon when we heard a gobble.

We droped to the ground and crawled to the edge of the field. My buddy started calling and two toms came out of nowhere. We must have been just a few dozen yards from them when they called. They worked there way to the field, but stayed on the other side of it. After about ten minutes, one of them came out and I shot him. I don't know which one I shot, but we could tell that one was allot bigger than the other. He looked huge on the ground, so that might have been the bigger one.

I took half of the meat for myself and gave the other half the the guy who owned the land we were hunting on. He'd lived there for decades and had never shot or eaten a wild turkey before. He loved it!!! It was my first one to eat also, and I grilled it like a steak. It was amazing!!!!

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

The new location is getting results. We can tell by the pictures that they are coming to it sooner than we expected, and also that they are coming back to it over and over again. This was a real suprise.

I went out last night with the spotlight at 9pm and saw the big boar next to the feeder, but his picture wasn't on the game cam. I guess that means he had just arrived and hadn't fed yet. A few seconds after I put the light on him, he ran off into the trees.

An hour later I took another look and saw the four small ones. They were in the same area, off to the side of the feeder and near the trees.

I think they are still nervous about the camera and are holding back. We've also noticed that allot of the pictures of the boar have him standing up big and strong, facing away from the feeder. We think he's keeping the little ones away. He's not eating all the corn, and they are not coming back later on when he's left, so there are some holes to my theory.

Eddie

 

[gsganzer]

Well, if that one is killing you, then this attachment will put you "over the top."

You're an evil man Jim!! Just seeing one in strut makes me break into a sweat. They really are something when they strut, almost looking artificial with the head/neck colors and the irridescence in the feathers.

I might buy a few for the backyard along with some chickens this year. I need to make sure I'm coyote proofed first.

 

[Tanberry]

I relocated my cam last week and captured about 38 pictures over several days . I had built a small bridge over a ditch in the woods last fall so I could get equipment back in there to build food plots. I suspected the deer would quickly start using it ..and they did . Last picture didn't come out very so could tell what it was . I like to relocate my quite a bit and I'm not putting out feed to draw them in so I normally don't get very many captures.