Trail cam pictures
Whitetail Deer
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Do any of you have trail cameras out yet? Let's see some photos!
The Birds
The Birds
Buddies for now....
Buddies for now....
We just collected our cards last week. We only have 4 cameras out so far. This is the best we have yet. Hoping it gets better ....
Another from last year...
This one is kind of unique...
Who said they don't use scrapes year-round?
More spring scrape action...
Fresh one from last night
ACB.... UMMMM, you might want to find a different location to hunt! With the predators you have roaming, there might not be many deer...
No Mercy, That one looks like he will be a fine specimen! Good luck this fall!
Hitman
We had a freak tornado go though our little valley in late November of last year. It was about 1/2 mile wide and cut up the mt on a angle . The damage is to left just out of photo there is a rock bar at about 1 o'clock running down mt . The tornado damage created a pinch point on mt that funneled game down to less than 100 yards from 1/2 mile on each side . I found it the first week of December after tornado and put this camera up and 2 more . Started getting pic of this guy every day on one of the cameras . Kill him about 10 seconds from when this pic was taken . From mid march till mid may I got pic every day of coyotes or bobcats or deer or all three . Little hard to get too but I will drag a stand up there this summer . I killed that buck off the ground .
Hear is bobcat willie and his girlfriend.
This guy may not score much, but he is at the top of my to kill list this season!! We call him the mega 7! We have lots of photos of him and video as well. He is a bully and ran off all other mature bucks in our river bottom area!
Who is at the top of your "Hit list"?
Slingshot from last year. Hoping he shows up in front of my cameras again this year. I let him walk last November at 20yds. Planning on putting my cams out this week.
T-Roy, I'm curious, why did you let him walk?
Irish, I'm almost positive that he was only 3 1/2 at most. He has the potential to blow up into a giant this year. I saw him shortly after all of our seasons closed, so I'm very hopeful he's still around. Toughest deer I've ever let walk, but you can't shoot a 190" if you shoot em when they're a 160".
T-roy, that takes some patience! Good on you! And prairie dog, that can't be from Kansas!?!
wow T-roy!! Keep us posted on how your season goes!
T-Roy, I understand. However, where I hunt at, if you pass on a 160 buck, most likely someone else will shoot him that same day. Different circumstances I guess.
Irish.....I do have a decent amount of private land that I own, but there are a bunch of guys that hunt the boundaries to my property, on adjacent land, so there is a good chance that the deer that live on, or frequent my place will, at some point will leave my place, at least temporarily and be vulnerable to other guys getting a crack at him or other potential shooter bucks. But I know that if I shoot him, he has no chance of turning into a giant, so I try my best to let the ones with potential walk, and take my chances. Every year, a few of them get killed, but a few seem to make it through as well.
+1 t-roy, if you shoot a 160 there is a zero percent chance he makes 180:) If you let him go there is always a chance! That said, I'm shooting the 160 because that is big enough for this mere mortal! Ha!
T-roy, I hope you don't think I was being critical. I pass on elk every year. Logic being that I will never kill a big one if I fill my tag on a little one. I wouldn't pass on your deer though, because I haven't killed one that big.
t-roy, good for you in passing but based on that one picture, I don't think he is only in the 160s.
No offense taken at all Irish! I think it's all relative. I have killed a half dozen elk, 2 over 300", but I'm pretty certain that if I had gotten the opportunity to shoot a much smaller bull before I got the chance at either of those two 300" bulls, my tags would have been punched and attached to a lesser animal.
I'm very fortunate be be able to have the hunting ground that I do, and have taken some pretty good bucks over the years, so, personally, I can be selective on the animal I choose to try and kill. Also, I get a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction in knowing that I had at least a small part in getting that animal to possibly his full potential.
BBuster... here's a different angle pic of him. He lacks mass and he's only about 15" inside but IMO, he has huge upside potential!
yep. looks a bit smaller from that angle. and does look young. good job
That's awesome t-roy, the way most of us think, it's "If you don't loose an arrow at a 160 you'll never get to shoot a 160! lol
Impressive t-roy. Hope you get him this year. Keep us posted.
Just returned from my north bear camp and threw out a cam near my house. Got pics of this healthy looking buck a few hours later. Look for Saskatchewan to produce monster bucks this year after 2 easy winters and plenty of moisture producing great feed for deer.
Has a split brow you can see from another angle. Based on last year's sign I think I have a pretty good idea where this one lives actually.
Has a split brow you can see from another angle. Based on last year's sign I think I have a pretty good idea where this one lives actually.
A few I am hoping to run into so far. Funny to see the relativity of size, I'm happy with 100" deer on the public mountain land I hunt. 130" is a monster.
And bear time...this one looks like he was trouble in a past life.
And bear time...this one looks like he was trouble in a past life.
just taking a piss..
just taking a piss..
Finally got a decent one on film. We have photo's of this buck for the last 3 seasons. We nick named him Blair Walsh. If you are a Vikings fan, you know why.
What's the reason Joe? Wide left? He disappears late in the season?
I'm a Packers fan BTW;-)
You guys are getting me stoked! I'm going to put out about 20 cams tomorrow.
My family and I took a big drive last night and glassed up a VERY good buck for our area on a farm I just got permission to hunt. Getting me excited. I can't believe it's just 2 months away. . .
T-Roy, Because even Blair Walsh could make a field goal through his frame!! LOL
"T-Roy, Because even Blair Walsh could make a field goal through his frame!! LOL"
He's a nice buck but let's be realistic. Ha! Go Pack Go!
Here's a good one, me and a "brown" bear in the same photo!
Brotsky,
Actually, not sure if Walsh could make it through 50 yards wide.... So happy he is gone! Purple Pride!!
Should have said pulled card 2 days ago
Cheesehead!!! I do love it! We live close to MN WI line. With a mix of Packer and Vikings fans in our neighborhood we have a very fun football season with all kinds of crazy bets! Football wouldn't be fun without a rival!
Purple Pride
Running 'me all year long, got this one the other day though...
hitman,
I live in WI not far from the border and work in MN so I'm very familiar with the rivalry. I was born in Mpls and lived my first 11 years there and lived through the Viking Super Bowl losses. Converted to a Packer fan many years ago and it's a lot easier than being a Viking fan and I can relate to the "pain" of being a Viking fan... ;^)
" Can't shoot a 190" if you shoot 'em at 160" "
That's what I always say t-roy, but I change the numbers a little. :-)
Bwady! Go Pat's! Greatest Super Bowl EVER!
Here are a few from this spring, this is my favorite camera to check.
Nice photos!
I am interested in getting a couple new cameras. Last fall mine were stolen right here at home. What brands and models do you like? What do you dislike and why? What do you think of regular flash, infrared, and black flash?
I have had the best photos from old original large Cuddeback 3-4mp digital cameras with real flash. Not sure what they have been spooking. I have also used Moultrie M-80 infared which took good daytime pictures along with decent black and white nighttime pictures. In a pinch, I bought a couple Wild Game Innovations cameras at Walmart. They have slow trigger speed so animals are off to the side, daytime picture quality is fair, and the nighttime infared photos look like X-ray images. They were cheap, so great if they are stolen, but lousy picture quality.
Maybe new future cameras could include a password protection that prevents the camera from being used, or even a self-destruct feature!
Standing in the large nursery crop of super cereal rye and oats... great clover underneath.
Fisher, as far as camera's go, I like the little light ones, like the small bushnells. Easy to pack up a hill or for miles, and I've had good luck with them. I had a couple of those Moulrie M-80's and liked them too (have a pretty good video of a big bull bugling as it walked past the camera in the middle of the night (good sound), and a grizzly standing on hind legs). I like my little Primos Truth cam, and the Cabela's camera I have. I bought a little stealth cam that was nothing but trouble, don't know when it will work or not. I never spend much on them, as my son bought a Leaf River camera that cost $350 that was a nightmare to operate, heavy, and now doesn't work at all. I've only ever had one stolen, but lots of issues with bears breaking them or attempting to.
Drove 60 miles and hiked part way up a mountain on Friday, and was sure I was going to get pictures of bull elk by this waterhole. Instead I had to search before finding my camera on the ground. This is the last photo it took. HA!
Here's a couple more from a few years back. The second one is the grizzlies paw in the camera. The camera got smashed up a bit, but I can still use it.
Irish....that bear must be like Russell Crowe. He didn't like the paparazzi taking his pics either!
I don't have pictures of any shooter whitetails yet, but have been getting regular pictures of this group.
This mulie may need another year...
I like this guy too. He does not run with the herd. Kind of a loner.
Here is one of our late bloomers! First season we have seen this guy that we know of.
Got one with a ear transmitter from the state gfp tagging research on survival rates.
My Tennessee walking whitetail. Notice his four white socks
This one from this year is for bowriter . Tennessee 2 buck limit is starting to pay dividends.
ACB: Here are pictures of my "Socks". Haven't seen him since 2015. I always hope he would stay around. As he was one of my favorites.
Bruce I hope you do get to see him again. I know I certainly hope my little socks hangs around for many years .
3 buddies and I just got a new property in Columbus County, NC. Hasn't been hunted in 5 years, and is surrounded by a big timber stand that isn't hunted, and swamp. Owner is only allowing 4 of us to hunt it and we can do whatever we want to the property. We set up 4 cameras on 4 random spots where we saw well used trails. the following few are what we got after a 1 week soak
One more from the same camera.
sorry that it's a bit dark. It looks like a coyote chasing a deer, but the head sure is large, and the tail not very fluffy, although it is summer. What do y'all think?
Looks more like a wolf than a coyote.
I'm thinking the same. Rat bastard.
Same buck. Triple brows . . .
Something looks wrong in sdbowhunter's picture. One buck in velvet and the other not and it is June 13th??What is up with that?
Sorry, my bad or should I say my bad eyesight...
Is that a big scrap that they are hitting already or does there just happen to be dirt torn up below that branch?
Couple of my better recent photos, and some decent bucks for PA public to boot
It is a scrape below a licking branch that they use. They have been using the licking branch but not really making a scrape below. Its more there feet tearing it up than actually pawing the ground. The drought has really started drying up my clover plot and it has gotten sparse.
Finally got a photo of one of my main targets. The mega 7 is back!!! We have bigger bucks in the area, but this guy gets my blood flowing! He was the alpha of our lower plots last year and had video and photo's of him fighting and running off other bucks! It is going to be a fun season!
Look at the neck on this guy! DEFINITELY on the hit list
First fawn of the year. Momma is behind the little one on the very left edge of the pic checking out the camera.
Photo from earlier this week. No velvet.
Never posted before but been reading forums for years. had this guy show up a couple of weeks ago so thought I would post. will try to get better pics of him.
Never posted before but been reading forums for years. had this guy show up a couple of weeks ago so thought I would post. will try to get better pics of him.
Looks like a coyote attack survivor
Photo from August 10th, and the same bull from June 6th
August heat is no match for these fellows out for a stroll!
don't have trail cam picture of him on my phone but here's one I have in southern Delaware