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No, I did not forget to turn a camera back on after swapping SD cards. I forgot to turn on TWO cameras after swapping cards. During peak rut! There's two weeks of critical data I'll never get back. Son of a B____!

It happens every year...
Been there..lol. In addition, had 2 cards crap out on me with the cam on. NEVER by Micro Center SD cards. They will not work for more than a few downloads. Should have gone with "you get what you pay for"...lol
 
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Done it too many times. I've even forgotten where I put cameras , beat that one.
I have to keep an updated map to remember where mine are. I'll count locations in my head and come up one short. Back to the map to figure out where I put that last cam! What makes it worse is how frequently I move mine. I move a couple of cams every week.
 
I have to keep a note pad in my camera bag to document locations & when batteries changed. Even then I've got one camera from summer that I haven't found yet!

I'm telling you younger guys, it doesn't get any better either .. .😭
I hear you brother!
 
No, I did not forget to turn a camera back on after swapping SD cards. I forgot to turn on TWO cameras after swapping cards. During peak rut! There's two weeks of critical data I'll never get back. Son of a B____!

It happens every year...
More like quarterly for me.
At least with cell cams, you realize it in a day or so.
 
I can top that. I've put a "fresh" card into a camera and formatted it only to realize it was a picture-holding card I had just pulled from another camera!
I swap pockets. When I start the cards are in my left pocket with the keys to my cable locks. As I check cams, I put the cards I pull into my right pocket keys stay in the left.

There have been a few times my cameras have been mysteriously shut off when I have checked them. Weird thing is twice that I can recall, they took pics of me leaving AFTER I changed the card and then no other pics.... No clue how that happens.
 
I swap pockets. When I start the cards are in my left pocket with the keys to my cable locks. As I check cams, I put the cards I pull into my right pocket keys stay in the left.
I have a hard-case SD card-holder. Blanks are at the back, freshly pulled cards at the front. Or was that the other way around...? And that's how I've accidentally put a freshly pulled card into a different camera.
 
There have been a few times my cameras have been mysteriously shut off when I have checked them. Weird thing is twice that I can recall, they took pics of me leaving AFTER I changed the card and then no other pics.... No clue how that happens.
If the two cameras hadn't been at opposite ends of the property, I would have been suspicious. Plus the fact they were both of my oldest model, which operate a little differently than the newer models. That has to be what happened.
 
I have a hard-case SD card-holder. Blanks are at the back, freshly pulled cards at the front. Or was that the other way around...? And that's how I've accidentally put a freshly pulled card into a different camera.
Guess another good thing about the moultrie cams that i have, is that they all show how many pics taken/pics remaining when you set them. But yeah, could see it happening if I wasn't paying attention.
 
I'v done all the above how about sticking your Benchmade in the tree while you work cam and walking off and leaving it.
 
No, I did not forget to turn a camera back on after swapping SD cards. I forgot to turn on TWO cameras after swapping cards. During peak rut! There's two weeks of critical data I'll never get back. Son of a B____!

It happens every year...
Buck-fever is real
 
No, I did not forget to turn a camera back on after swapping SD cards. I forgot to turn on TWO cameras after swapping cards. During peak rut! There's two weeks of critical data I'll never get back. Son of a B____!

It happens every year...
Senior moment ! It happens
Enjoy the 60's my friend
 
I get poison ivy almost every time I set a camera. I like to put them on the bigger trees I think I have less false pictures. But on my plane that comes at a cost!
 
I have 2 cards for every camera, each card is numbered to match the corresponding camera, which is also numbered. This is the only way that I can keep track of them. My biggest issue is remembering to turn the camera on each time and remembering where they are. It never fails, if I think that I forgot to turn it on and go back and check, it's on. If I convince myself that it is on and do not go back and check, it's not. Kind of like my wife with the stove, every time we leave the house.
 
I've done all of this, especially when I was running 22 cams on 5 properties. One of the things that's helped me with cards. I label each cam (1, 2, 3...) then I have 2 cards for each cam. They are labeled 1A & 1B, 2A & 2B.... I also have a hard cases that I put my trail cam cards in. I will put all clean cards face up, when I change them out, I put the USED card face down. That gives me a quick reference it has pics on it.
 
But yeah, could see it happening if I wasn't paying attention.
And there lies the problem. I get on "auto-pilot" when doing tasks like this and my mind starts to wander. "Should a move this camera to the other scrape? How many cameras should I dedicate to food plots?" And I'm no longer paying attention to what I'm doing.
 

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