@@JohnUSAofficial you can cover up that red light with a little black piece of tape. It won't effect your cam. I do the exact thing and it has made no bad difference. Just a thought you could try
That’s bout the only reason to I think. Higher they don’t see it near as easy and you can see who maybe was stealing the other cameras or who’s in the hunting area. Camouflage them too!
do you just live near a wooded area with wild life or do you like drive a couple hours just to set it up somewhere? Or you hunt maybe and you’ll set it up next time you go? Also how long can the camera stay out there before you need to charge it?
White tails are the smartest deers to ever exist up in the north I swear once one seen one of us look both ways to see if it’s safe and cross it learned and taught the rest
Another crucial step is while hanging your camera or changing batteries, WHERE GLOVES, doesn’t matter what type just any sort of gloves, whenever you touch that camera with your fingers the oil residue gets on it and deer can smell that from up to 50 yards away for two straight weeks. So if they smell your scent on that camera they will not go near it (the big ones won’t anyway)
Most of mine have been out 3+ years. Spypoint cell cams, hme solar battery packs. I have 2 cameras I haven't seen in over a year still sending pics every day. Deer don't seem to mind at this point, just part of the scenery. Oh, I haven't been to them because I didn't hunt where they are.
We buy screw on attachments to hang them in trees. It looks like a leaf or some sticks from right under them, we put the in trees about 20 yards away. Keeps bears off them to because the company who makes that attachment also makes steps to screw in trees. We can hang them 15 foot high
I never used bait or a camera and always filled my tag every year. You simply find the path the deer take to move from food to water and you set your stand there and wait for it to walk by. They will move on that path at least once daily. I guess I'm not a trail cam salesman though.
I see alot of people talking about trail cams getting stolen. My dad had that problem for a while, but now he has some that send the pics and videos directly to his phone about 5 minutes after they are taken
I don’t know if deer can see IR, but if they can it may be an issue as well… I’m not a Hunter so I wouldn’t know, but you can see those things from miles away with night vision goggles on
Not sure where the deer is at in that first little video but my guess is down south. Some of your guys deer down there have absolutely gorgeous racs but they have spindly little bodies that make the racs look even bigger. Up north here have big ole corn, oat, grass, and bean fed pig nasty bucks that look like they have been body building lol. Either way I wouldn’t mind making my way down there to hunt at least once in my life. Meat is first and foremost the most important thing to me. But like most young men I want a monster to eat and to keep the rac for a wall mount or hell even to make knife handles or whatever. It’s definitely worth it to just even see a monster in the wild. Even if you don’t get the shot on him. We are truly blessed to be able to harvest these creatures every year once a year and watch the young ones replaces the old and so on and so forth
I'm sure they can hear the little coil whine much better than humans can. Also I have no idea what the spectrum range of a deers sight is, but I'm willing to bet they can see the red glow of an infrared LED better than a human can.
I like to hang mine up high. I find a stick with a Y split and cut the bottom of the y off flat to the split then I cut one of the upper Y parts short and leave the other long. I attach the camera to the long branch of the Y facing away from the short branch and make a loop from wire attached in the crotch of the split. I then use a long stick put through the wire loop to hang the camera up high in a tree using the small branch as a hook. The cameras weight makes it hang at an angle towards the ground. I started doing this so people couldn’t steal or mess with my cameras. If my explanation didn’t make sense just look up a bushcraft pot hanger because it’s basically the same idea. I have only ever had one fall once and that was because a squirrel was climbing on the camera. I was able to put them very high using a long dead cedar tree, typically 20ish feet off the ground.
Hollow Log Hides, Cut you a few Chunks of A Hollow Log , I use short Camo Bungees for straps onto the hanging Tree and the hollow Log piece goes over that so basically My camera Hides Are inside the Piece of log with just the necessary opening for capturing pics , It's hard to find if you do it right
Tip number 4: use gloves you've run some dirt onto to cover your scent. Tip number 5: use a bottle of pheromones for letting the deer want to use a tree as a scratching post in view of the camera
Some deer are dumber than others. I was watching a dog tracking video (Callie chronicles) and they were tracking a big buck they shot and the buck literally would go off the trail and go behind every single camera even after he was lethally wounded
I have a trail cam and am using the nylon strap it came with. I’ll try a different method to hang it, but can you give a reason why the nylon strap is an issue?
Not bad tips but ive found that if u leave anything out for awhile whether it be blind feeder camera etc. whitetails will just get used to it after awhile
I set my camera into a naturally formed 'hooter hole' as my granddad called them. I get these amazing shots of this buck, at least 250lbs, which is HUGE for the area (average harvest is around 145lbs dressed). I have yet to see him during any of the three seasons i can legally tag him, but at this point, i dont want to. Hes old, the meat will be tough, and his genetics are good for the local population. I hunt for the meat, not the trophy.
I have deer all the time look at my camera there’s nothing wrong with that they don’t get spooked over it they don’t do nothing they come back the next night look at it they Sniffing it and they keep coming around so technically that’s not a problem
Same here I have big bucks that keep coming through even though camera is totally visible the are t sure of it but I’d doesn’t scare them from not coming around
There was a "massive study" conducted where cameras were set up to watch deer react to trail cameras mounted lower than 6 feet. And those cameras 100% demonstrated that those trail cameras spooked bucks. The bucks rarely came into the view of the trail cameras. AND the bucks rarely came back to that location.
@@annapennrose1158 who did this “massive” study conduct where was performed? Was it public land? I live in Alabama have some of the most sketchy deer and I have been putting cameras up and have seen this old mature buck on almost all my cameras and he continues to come back. The deer someone have become scared of the cameras in this “massive” study location somehow. And bucks usually never take the same route. I have my cameras dead level with the deer yeah they may look at funny but never associate negative things with cameras in my experience
Get a camera that's silent. They do make cameras that don't make a noise. A digital camera does not have to make a noise to take a picture. They started doing that with cell phones so you could tell when you push the button that a picture was being taken. Have you ever watched a video of a trail cam photographing deer and as the camera goes off the deer jumps 5 feet in the air
Think as if you are setting in your man cave because you are in the deers house and they are very intelligent and they know everything about what’s different when they get home.
Use that as a bate put to much food around and a bushel of leafs. Is that a new bush yea it’s in the center get them feeling safe. Then hunt in a pack (insuring the kill).
Just like a fresh brand new mouse trap that you set out and the mice avoid it like the plague. What I do is I take those traps and I put them in the area I plan to use them in, then cover them in dirt and occasionally put peanut butter on the Trap. Eventually it just smells like dirt and peanut butter, and the mice get used to snacking on the peanut butter that's there because nobody ever gets hurt snacking on the peanut butter that's just sitting in that pile of dirt. Then after that trip has been rained on and walked on by a few hundred mice over the last month, all of a sudden the trap is set and it starts catching mice and voles like crazy. It's dirty it's Rusty and it smells like it has been there forever. Your trail cameras smell like you and the factory it was made in.
Deer look at my cameras all the time and still come back. Shot a big 13 point a couple years ago I caught on camera probably 10 times and half those times he looked at the camera. He finally came through during daylight and I shot him.
