Does anyone video there hunts?

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Andrew-okhunter

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Just wondering if anyone videos there hunts. I'm gonna try an self film my hunts this season! It seems like it could be really challenging. Any tips?
 
If I am in a tower blind or ground blind u will sometimes bring my video camera but in a tree stand it just looks like too much trouble for me. I watch people do that on hunting shows and it's pretty impressive to be able to film and shoot.
 
I find that I spend so much thought and energy trying to get it all on camera, I miss out on the hunt itself. It's just not for me.
 
Just be ready to miss out on opportunities if you are serious about filming as it will definitely happen. I film all my hunts when in my climber as I have a great setup with the camera arm mounted to my climber. My lock ons and ladders, I don't have a convenient setup so I tend to only film stuff I'm not interested in...
 
I do it. I haven't produced anything great yet, but I'm getting better. I try not to put too much pressure on great production. It's not going on the Outdoor Channel or anything.

Setup:
Sony Handicap HD with 30x Optical Zoom
3rd Arm Mini Pro (Always use the T-bolt. It's WAAAYYY better than the ratchet strap.)
Micro Mount Camera Holder from Muddy with a small flip cam style camera on it (working on getting a go pro because I would use that second angle a lot more if it was easier to use.)

Honestly, if it's just for you to show your friends and family and post something raw online, just have fun with it. Do whatever amount of production is fun to you and enjoy hunting. I love it because I can show my dad and brothers bucks that I saw on a hunt and it's helped me get the perfect setup on a field a couple of times because I went back and studied exactly where a deer came out.

Here's a couple of my better videos...
 
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SIWhitetail said:
I do it. I haven't produced anything great yet, but I'm getting better. I try not to put too much pressure on great production. It's not going on the Outdoor Channel or anything.

Setup:
Sony Handicap HD with 30x Optical Zoom
3rd Arm Mini Pro (Always use the T-bolt. It's WAAAYYY better than the ratchet strap.)
Micro Mount Camera Holder from Muddy with a small flip cam style camera on it (working on getting a go pro because I would use that second angle a lot more if it was easier to use.)

Honestly, if it's just for you to show your friends and family and post something raw online, just have fun with it. Do whatever amount of production is fun to you and enjoy hunting. I love it because I can show my dad and brothers bucks that I saw on a hunt and it's helped me get the perfect setup on a field a couple of times because I went back and studied exactly where a deer came out.

Here's a couple of my better videos...
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SIwhitetail That's some really cool stuff! I really want to do it so I can go back and watch it and relive that moment. And so I can show friends and family. And for my YouTube!
 

I had a buddy who did one last spring turkey hunting, self filming is very hard to do
 
Here are the only two videos that I've ever uploaded. I have a bunch more, I just rarely mess with editing them down and posting as I really only video for myself.

 
I not only video all my hunts, but video an extensive collection of the better bucks I see each season. Then during the off season I create a DVD both to archive the various bucks for future reference as well as getting to re live the season. It's catch and release deer hunting at its best. Putting the DVD together is great fun trying to add a narrative as well as incorporating music to keep it interesting.

Happy to share a copy with anyone here on this sight if interested in what hunting brush country bucks along the Rio Grande River is like. Some top end eye candy to boot.
 
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I not only video all my hunts, but video an extensive collection of the better bucks I see each season. Then during the off season I create a DVD both to archive the various bucks for future reference as well as getting to re live the season. It's catch and release deer hunting at its best. Putting the DVD together is great fun trying to add a narrative as well as incorporating music to keep it interesting.

Happy to share a copy with anyone here on this sight if interested in what hunting brush country bucks along the Rio Grande River is like. Some top end eye candy to boot.
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Would love to see it!
 
My brother and I did a turkey hunt last year that I thought turned out great as a youtube video, not hunting video style.

If you're trying to do a self filmed deer hunt, get a quality camera arm. The one my brother got SUCKED: loud, difficult to adjust, etc. As mentioned above, I felt like I was spending the entire time f***ing with camera position instead of hunting.
 
I have wanted to do this for years just never get the stuff together in time for the season and ya the story continues. I setup my iPhone 7 figuring it had a pretty nice camera...well used the zoom and put it on youtube this morning and the video is out of focus on youtube...Not sure what i did wrong. Any feedback?

 
When you send from your I-phone to another source it reduces the quality so that it can send more easily. Video on a phone is going to be the very best right at the source and then degrade as it is shared to other devices...
 
I carry a camcorder with me. I've captured some pretty cool stuff, but most of it I haven't edited. Video footage is pretty valuable for identifying and cataloging bucks. It's better than just looking through binoculars. A video can be saved, reviewed, paused, watched slo-mo and really analyzed. Binocular looks are over as soon as they happen.

I did film a lot of our first Iowa hunt. It actually cost me a shot at a 150s buck. I was gonna pass on him and just film him, but by the time I realized he was a shooter and I put the camera away, he was done walking through my shooting lane. 5 minutes later, a different 150 buck walked through the same lane and I almost made the same mistake...almost. After I tagged out, I spent the next 6 days not hunting...just filming wildlife and filming scouting. I did fully edit that video. Put music and effects on it. It turned out pretty well.

Here's a clip from that Iowa hunt. I had music on this but I wasn't sure about posting music on Youtube (copyright stuff?) so I edited this clip down a bit...It loses a bit without the music.
I got this clip on the last day we were there and I was out retrieving trail cameras. The snow was frozen and crunchy loud. There was a lot of rutting action going on and I knew I wouldn't be able to sneak in to get the camera, so I decided to try something off the wall. I pulled out my grunt tube and grunted while I trotted in the crunchy snow toward the trail cam location. I really did sound like a running and grunting buck. Within a minute, I had bucks coming toward me to check it out. This one came to within 5 yards. There were other bucks responding, too. But none offered any decent camera shots. BTW, that was the 1st of several times that, instead of trying to sneak over noisy terrain, I instead grunted and ran and made actually more noise... trying to sound like running bucks...it works.
 
Bow? Get an arm on the tree off your bow. You will see all deer will string jump your shot, also killing big bucks while filming is a challenge.
 
I always had issues with youtube and have since moved to Vimeo because the quality of video always turns out better. I'm not sure what youtube does, but my videos would always turn out grainy even when using my DSLR.

My guess is that the zooming in with your phone is what has created the majority of your graininess in your uploaded video.
 
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