Mine have been out for 3-4 years? I place them along well used trails and near ditch/slough crossings. Summer time use is a different ballgame, leaves, weeds and grasses, rain and flooding, insects, and many more birds produce thousands of unwanted pictures. I started downloading a card this morning that had over 3000 pictures of limbs and grass waving in the winds we have had in recent weeks.
I had one in a food plot years ago. Left it all summer…. Had very few pics of deer on it, but we had a flood and it was interesting to watch the waters come up over the camera and then recede… the camera still worked for a weeks after.
I’m thinking about changing things up… a lot of little places I’ve never scouted.
I always leave a couple out year round. I usually just use the same places as in the fall. I have one that stays the same place all the time. It records who might drive into our small farm. All sorts of wildlife also travel by it. I pulled a card a couple of weeks ago. It had deer, turkeys, coyotes, bobcats, skunks, armadillos, squirrels, crows and a few other birds on it.
At first, I thought someone was playing a trick on me and had snuck out and placed mirrors all throughout the woods. Nope....literally a deer behind every tree. A bunch still in the background that were coming too, LOL!
Funny thing, I went and checked a food plot a couple days ago (looks like crap)… might be salvageable, but anyway on the way out I noticed a camera I forgot about I put up on the plots edge. It triggered a memory that I had set out a couple late season, took a minute to remember where I set the 2nd one, but I have 2 cards to check now.
Ray...cool. Kind of like Christmas in May, right? Share those pic's when you get'em downloaded.
The interesting thing I have noticed since posting my video above, is the majority of all those deer meandering thru that woodlot pinch point are bucks....either still hard horned or already shed. I know it was March 15th, but crazy to think that many bucks running together in one big group like that no matter the season.
Jason, I get between 2000-7000 every month between 3-4 cameras. I am only running 3 right now. The majority of the pics are discards, poor pics or nothing but grass waving triggering the cameras. My batteries would fade before my camera got 6700 on one card.
Camera was at 33% battery life. Instill haven’t looked at the card in detail, but I know for a fact that several thumbnails look like grass tripped it. It’s been out since late November.
I’m putting one out this weekend, on a solar well that pumps into a ground level tank, for wildlife. All the ponds in the area have been dry since last summer. I should get lots of pics.
I have over 20 cameras out year round. I like to see what survived the winter and when they drop their antlers. If the batteries get low between February and May, I don't worry about it. I try to reload everything in May or June to watch antler growth. I have one reconyx that's been at the same crossing since 2010. It takes 4000-6000 pictures per month. It has probably taken about 800,000 pictures during that time. I have pictures of bucks working a scrape just last week.
FAT WAGON is baack! Some on here might remember this hog from Dec. 2021. Then he had a younger, darker, hairier side-kick running around with him in another part of the place I hunt that is about 1/2 mile from this location. I understand, sometime later that winter 2021-2022 the younger sidekick was run over by a semi-truck a few miles away. However, FAT WAGON has SURVIVED!
In these 2 videos he came thru my South Draw hunting area about a month apart Feb. 2023 and March 2023. To me, he looks a little leaner now and rightfully so since living in the wild this past year +. I'll try to find the video of him from 2021.
Anyway, thought it was interesting that FAT WAGON is still out there romping around........for now anyway!
