thoughts on camera’s
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That's akin to thinking cruise control is useful to somebody who doesn't drive. Cameras are useless if you don't know how to hunt. And they're awesome if you do.
How on earth can they possibly take away your woodsman abilities? What does that even mean?
Hahaha I didn't bother to mention all the times it didn't work!!!
It really doesn't work every time, probably less than half. I honestly didn't expect it to work at all, but tried it out of curiosity. To my utter surprise it actually did work. And when it does, it really does.
Cameras work really good on corn plies.........
There are some very interesting perspectives in this thread.
There are some very interesting perspectives in this thread.
Smo
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The date was wrong on my camera, pic was taken in early November of this year.
Two weeks later....
Less than 250 yards from the place the pic was taken.
Sometimes a plan comes together, sometimes it don't.
Cameras are a great tool, I run them year around.
ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER
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same here, it blew my mind at the amount of people coming in from the lake and hunting while we scouted the day before our hunt and hunted during our hunt
I'm just asking the question if you'll read the first post. I posted it and it was in the form of a question that I didn't have the answer to since I don't use them and was tossing around the idea of starting.
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I would say cameras definitely reduce the need for woodsmanship as do a lot of other technologies we use. I don't know of too many pieces of technology that take hold in any community that isn't proven to help. Is a crossbow better than a compound bow are both easier than a traditional bow? Is it easier to kill a deer with a rifle vs a muzzleloader? A camera certainly helps pattern deer especially does, what follows does..bucks. Within 4-5 weeks of putting up my cameras, I knew how many deer I had on my property and preferred travel routes. There was no guesswork at all in shooting a doe if I wanted. Another good example, a few years back when hunting in Maine the deer were hammering some apple trees. I put up a trail camera and figured out they were never hitting it during the day. Figured out in 3 days when I could have wasted a week or more of sitting on a spot that would probably never produced. I backed up the ridge about a half-mile and shot a really nice 8pt (who was only on-camera day one) on the evening of the third day after checking the camera in the morning. The camera made me more efficient than my woodsmanship alone would have. Not saying I wouldn't have figured it out on my own but the camera gave me information I would have only speculated about without it.
Even if it didn't help pattern deer just a picture of some deer especially a good one would probably make a poor hunter stick around longer than if they were seeing nothing at all. Which would lead to a higher chance of seeing one to kill.
Even if it didn't help pattern deer just a picture of some deer especially a good one would probably make a poor hunter stick around longer than if they were seeing nothing at all. Which would lead to a higher chance of seeing one to kill.
My wife has bought 1 reconyx for Xmas every year for 5 years. Just got the 5th one yesterday. Anyway none of them have messed up on their own. I had one get under backwater for 2 weeks the water came up so fast and it still works. Batteries last forever. And honestly I was missing half the deer that come by with cheaper cameras. It was amazing. I don't get any blank pics anymore. They are pricey but they will fix your trail camera problems. If your like me you just have to accumulate them slowly.
To the original question they just help
Me know the size of deer on an area. If none big enough in a certain area it saves me lots of time.
JCDEERMAN
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Reconyx's rock. I have 3 and combined years of those 3 running in are 30+ years. I've sent them each back once for a $45 repair. Love them
Never run cameras before but last year I ran those cheap ones from Walmart , kinda liked seeing those pics . Only thing I seen a pretty decent 10 point actually a main frame 9 with a kicker probably in the mid 120's range . About a good a buck I've seen on my property. Thing was I basically hunted that only , don't mind not scoring but let a couple decent bucks pass which is good butbit changed the way i hunt . Didn't put them out this year and had a better time hunting didnt kill a buck but it wasn't because I was waiting on one particular buck . I trybti let smaller bucks pass anyway but it was justblikecif it ain't this buck I'm not even considering shouldering my gun or bow. Did run up on acgreat deal of Muddy cams that use Verizon but didn't put them out thought about maybe next year since I got permission to huntvtge property that borders my place . Thought they'd be good to help me learn that property out but thing is cell use in that area is spotty but the cheaper ones should help me out some . I'm really not a fan of cameras but asvibgetbolder I definitely need any advantage I can get .
BSK
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Agreed. I often kill a buck I have hundreds of pictures of in one given area FAR from where he is most frequently photographed. Sometimes I kill him where I've never gotten a picture of him.
They are for taking inventory for me. Especially in mid january to march
