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TrampledbyTurtles said:
Wow Slag, that is impressive. I don think I could afford the batteries to run that many.
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Ive reached the point where i cant tell if my cameras are a hobby or a burden anymore :) some of my public land cameras i have to hike 5+ miles to check. And i pack minerals into them too. I have them spread out over 3 counties. Checking them all more than a couple times a year just isnt feasible. I use 8 energizer ultimate lithium aa batteries in each cam, and get 12-14 months battery life, so i keep a running list of dayes that i put new batteries in them, and change the batteries once a year.
 
231 acres, 10 cameras (mostly Browning Strike Force), and I keep them out 24/7/365. I love to see what's happening throughout the year no matter the season.
 
Blizzard Ridge said:
Trampled I think you said a very interesting thing in your last post about it not affecting the deer. Your trail cameras still have hit list bucks show up on camera that very "Night". I run a ton of camera's and I agree with everyone about deer noticing. I started working on a study last deer season and so far I have noticed that when just going in to change a card the first night I will get pictures of doe and young bucks, the second night there will be the same deer showing and about the 3rd to 4th night the age structure will go up to 3 & 4 year olds. After the camera has been left alone for about a week I will start getting pictures of mature bucks. I have tracked this on numerous camera's. Also, I have noticed when putting in a new camera set I may get a good buck on camera in the first couple nights but then it will cool down on mature bucks for a week or more before they start showing up again.

If I get time after one more year of tracking camera's I plan to do a small write up on my findings that I have logged. In your situation though Trampled I would look at it as who cares what the deer do for a couple of days. The fact that your dad is still out enjoying chasing pheasants around on the property is all that matters. It was similar to when my grandpa was around and loved to deer hunt but could not sit still for 5 minutes so I would set him up where if he sat for about an hour he would get his meat kill taken care of. The problem was he loved to walk around the woods and see everything that God created for him. After a day or two of him deer hunting if he didn't kill there would not be a deer within a mile of our farm but I didn't care. He earned his right to trample that farm anytime he wanted to and I knew he didn't have too many hunt left in him to take it all in.
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Very interesting, I would love to hear your findings in the future. I have noticed the same as you though for the most part. I will get a mature buck on a camera I right off the bat and if I check it too frequently I will not get him again but I will continue to get the same young bucks and does all the time no matter the frequency. I was just telling my buddy about this today. I have a mature buck I got on camera one time on a certain camera and I did not have him again on it. It was on a mineral site and he looked right at the camera. I moved the camera and got him again the next time right after I moved it but he was looking at the camera and I have not had him since. I am Going to let the cams sit for a month without going near them now that I have all my plots taken care of and mymineral sites freshened up and see what happens.
 
I think it depends on the location. I have some that are as high as I can reach and some waist high. It just depends on the location and what you are trying to find out at that location. I like to set mine above deer eye sight but if you are leaving them in for long periods of time they will quit worrying about that camera hanging there. Usually after about a week bucks have forgot it is even there.
 
shawn cox said:
Very interesting, I would love to hear your findings in the future. I have noticed the same as you though for the most part. I will get a mature buck on a camera I right off the bat and if I check it too frequently I will not get him again but I will continue to get the same young bucks and does all the time no matter the frequency. I was just telling my buddy about this today. I have a mature buck I got on camera one time on a certain camera and I did not have him again on it. It was on a mineral site and he looked right at the camera. I moved the camera and got him again the next time right after I moved it but he was looking at the camera and I have not had him since. I am Going to let the cams sit for a month without going near them now that I have all my plots taken care of and mymineral sites freshened up and see what happens.
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I've had the same experience with certain deer activity going way down after putting a camera up. I think part of it is the presence of the camera, and part of it is the disturbance I create to put the camera up or check it. I've got a couple of hunting spots that I don't put up cameras at all, the only time I step foot in those area's is to hunt. My hunting success in these spots has gone way up since making a few of these changes (removal of the camera isn't the only change I made).
 
I typically run my camera's on the edges. I never go into the deer's bedroom and hang a camera unless I intend to leave that camera in the woods until spring. I catch 90% of my pictures on field or plot edges, easy in and easy out situations where every couple weeks I can check camera's if I choose to and not disturb a thing. I also leave my camera's in that same places year around so the deer are used to it being there. Being as scent free as possible also helps the camera location be more successful. I use 8 GB cards but am finding that I need to bump that up to 16 GB cards due to the activity at some camera locations. I just went in to check beans we planted to see is they were starting to pop and figured since I was in there I might as well check camera's while there. We planted and put camera's out on the 3rd and checked them on the 12th. One camera had over 3000 pictures and all of the others were at 1000 or more. Makes it tough to leave a camera alone when they fill up cards in two weeks.
 
500 ac.
4 cameras
Spring to early winter
I'm opposed to going to check the cameras too often but my teenage boy is addicted to them. And to riding ATV in the woods in hunting season. My pet peeve.
 
I manage about 1500 acres scattered out over 4 properties. I own about 40 cameras, 9 of which are cellular and send the pics to my phone. I run those 9 all year long. I run another 10-15 during spring turkey season. I start ramping up in July with all my cameras. I usually do a trail can survey somewhere in July but by August all the cams are up and running on my properties. They will stay out until April or until I think most antlers have dropped.
 
1) 160
2) 6 cams mainly bushys
3) June/july on (mainly on plots to see growth and deer count, but this year will be different)
 
100 ac. Usually keep one year round. Up to 6 late summer but never place a camera on anything but a scrape I've made, and usually field edge for that. Never pay attention to camera as they are always worried about the scrape and licking branch. The other excellent place I've found they don't pay attnetion to is strapped on to exclusion cage in middle of field. Ignore it completely but great pics.
 
1) 4950 acres
2) 15-20 cameras (Brownings, Bushnell Trophy Cams, a few Moultrie 990i's that refuse to die and 2 Coverts that refuse to die)
3) Late June through September and back out before rut and to inventory after season is over.
 
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