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Off season trail camera storage
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Contributors to this thread:
GAFFER1 29-Dec-18
8point 30-Dec-18
Shawlerbrook 30-Dec-18
GAFFER1 30-Dec-18
SJJ 29-Jan-19
Trial153 30-Jan-19
SaddleReaper 30-Jan-19
Jdawg 02-Feb-19
From: GAFFER1
29-Dec-18
pulled all but one camera out of the woods. Usually I take the batteries out, do you store your trail cameras with out without the batteries?

From: 8point
30-Dec-18
I pull the batteries for the 4 months (March til July) that they are down.

30-Dec-18
Definitely pull them.

From: GAFFER1
30-Dec-18
Thanks all, Happy New Year

From: SJJ
29-Jan-19
I would pull them but I use my cams all year for different things/wildlife

From: Trial153
30-Jan-19
I pull them all, I take the batteries out and store the used ones separate. They are first batteries I use when I hang cams in the summer.

From: SaddleReaper
30-Jan-19
Just did this the other day!

Pulled all batteries from cameras and bundled them together (8 each) by the camera, wrap in masking tape and label the "% remaining". That way each bundle of used batteries stays together at the same rate of available juice, and come summer they'll last a few weeks when I throw them back in.

Def don't leave them in the camera.... thats asking for leaks and corrosion.

From: Jdawg
02-Feb-19
I didn’t know there was an off-season for them. Winter predators, keeping tabs on winter deer activity, spring and summer antler growth.....turkeys, etc. I like to have them out in all seasons.

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