Game Camera Question

[blueriver]

It seems nobody is seeing many deer, turkeys, or even raccoons at their feeders this year. The corn just mostly collects on the ground. Here's a picture of the local "ladies of the evening" who came to visit before the acorns started to fall.

Nice, maybe in time they will start coming in to my feeder. I quit all this when my boy went USCG about 14 years ago. Now that Grandson that I am raising (not from the USCG Son!!) is showing interest ... so I'm doing it again!!

 

[Rocksprings]

I use to feed all year and keep the camera out to see the deer population but come to find out I was feeding more wild hogs than deer so I quit. Corn has got a little pricey also.

 

[EddieWalker]

I started out with feeders. First one was a cheapy Moultrie from Walmart that I hung from a tree. It took awhile, but hogs eventually found the corn and started coming to it. I put up my first game camera to see them, and was hooked ever since.

The animals are out there, and there are a lot of them. I try to wait a full week, but right now, during deer season, I'm really wanting to know what's going on out there.

The hogs have pretty much dissapeared on me. This is common for this time of the year since there are acorns on the ground and they like them a lot more then they like corn. Once the acorns sour, the hogs will be back to the corn every night.

This year, the deer are coming on strong. I'm seeing more deer then ever before. I just got a picture the other day of the very first buck that I want to shoot. Nothing else has interested me in the six years that I've lived here.

My food plot might be the best one yet. Purple top turnips, wheat, oats and peas all mixed together with limed and fertilized soil seems to be the first combination that I've been able to see the deer come to and eat. My food plot is right next to my corn feeder.

It takes time to figure it out and for the animals to figure it out too.

Eddie

 

[DIRTROAD]

I've got a camera on the way. I can't wait to set it up and see the proof.

 

[SandburRanch]

I have two cameras, one uses D cell, the other C cell batteries. The price of these batteries have got out of hand lately so I use rechargeable batteries now. The charger and batteries paid for themselves in a few months. Don't get Eveready, they are useless.

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Mine took the big square 6v flash light battery and I soon tired of paying the price so I went to a small (about 1x4x6) 6v from Farmer's Co-Op and a 6v solar charger. Charges are real infrequent. I drilled a couple of small holes in the camera bottom to run wires to the interior alligator clips and the battery sets on the dirt and usually covered from rain. I've found the camera being adapted to a tripod is much easier to aim than being fastened to a tree that's never the correct size, shape or in the right location.

 

[clemsonfor]

Thanks for that ... I set it up yesterday evening. Took it to the woods mounted it on the tree, used the IR aim and set it up "Auto" ... turned it on it went in the countdown mood. Then I walked around taking my picture (so I thought) This morning I bring the SD card in ... One picture .. me at 6:03 opening the unit to shut it off!!

most cams will have a 5-10 minute delay after you first turn them on so you can check and see the light go off like its taking you pic to know if it is in a good location for where you think the animals will be. After this period then it will take.

 

[clemsonfor]

I don't think its batteries or settings ... I'm getting pictures, just no wildlife. So today I pulled out the old feeder, the salt block ... set things up with the hopes of calling all things wild!! I know it will take some time for the critters to realize I am feeding them ... BTW the most important thing here is the Grandson I am raising ...(some of you may recall) 13 and just passed his FAS training ... so its time for grandpa to get back into things ... Darn I like being young again!!!!

Put out a pile of corn even if it is illegal to hunt over just dont hunt near the cam, i do it and dont worry about it. i never hunt within sight of my can or anything and as long as its 10 days after the last corn is gone im good to hunt that spot, at least here in sc. I had a C cell wildgame cam that the battery holders had the plastic bust on it in the summer sun. I converted it to take the rechargable 6v battery from walmart and that thing has taken several thousand pics and not even one bar down on the battery level meter on the cam.

 

[clemsonfor]

A tip is to buy the corn still on the cob, yes it is the same price and you get less corn per say 50lb bag cause your buying cobs too instead of just shelled corn, but the shelled usually is only like 50 lb bags and the cobs might be in a 60lb bag. The real payoff is the cob corn lasts longer and dosent sour as fast cause its always got some with air contact and not on the ground all the time, and the deer cant just hoover it up like a pile of corn or thrown out single corn.

 

[Boeing]

That's a great shot Jinman. Thanks for sharing:thumbsup:

 

[MtHam]

Shots from my Moultrie IR camera.