Trail cams

[Ozark Custom Calls]

I was looking into buying a trail cam or two, and wanted to know any suggestions you all have.

Thanks,

Richard

[BD1]

I have a Moultrie Game Spy I60 Digital Game Camera & It works Great.

[hunter22]

Richard,

I have been using a homebrew made by GobbleCam out of Brandon, MS. This is a good trail camera.

[jim-n-em]

I have a Cuddeback Capture and DLC Covert II Assasin.  Love them both.  I have had the cuddeback out behind my house for 3 years and have had nothing but good luck and great pictures with it.  The Covert takes great color pictures by day and IR at night.  I have the Covert out behind the house right now and just changed it to video mode.  I have not tried it in video mode yet, anxious to see how it does.  Here are a couple pics from my Cuddeback

[Mzlhunter]

I would save your money. Trail cams are just another gadget in the "deer farming" culture.

[wisturkeyhunter]

I would save your money. Trail cams are just another gadget in the "deer farming" culture.

Yep

[jim-n-em]

I agree that they are more in tune for deer hunting, however, they are great scouting tools to set up in areas (field edges, logging trails, hardwood ridge, etc..) where you think turkey's are frequenting.  You can't be in the woods every second (even though we wish we could), but these things can.  I have seen scouting cameras used effectively for determining an approximate time when turkeys are in a certain area.  Undisturbed, Turkeys are a creature of habit.  More for deer hunting, but can be good for turkey as well.

[Mzlhunter]

I prefer to do a lot of scouting and rely on woodsmanship rather than a camera. If I can't figure out how or where to hunt an animal without  the aide of a camera then I'll hang up my gun and pick up another hobby. That's just my opinion, different strokes for different folks.

[ronmexico]

if nothing else, it gives you a good idea about which bucks made it through the season and what kind of deer are on your property.  we don't really have the camera's out during hunting season, but do have them out just after the season ends through february or so.  put them back out in late spring, early summer.  i like to see the antler development and to get a feel for what caliber bucks we have to look forward to.  i don't bow, or gun hunt over food plots, but it is nice to see what deer are using the plots.  wire cages let you know how hard they are getting hammered, but the pictures tell the story.

i have never used the cuddeback's, but have heard great things about them.

[ronmexico]

I prefer to do a lot of scouting and rely on woodsmanship rather than a camera. If I can't figure out how or where to hunt an animal without  the aide of a camera then I'll hang up my gun and pick up another hobby. That's just my opinion, different strokes for different folks.

i can understand your thought about this and i too don't put out camera's (during the season), where i will be hunting.  but if you think camera's are bad, i imagine you don't hunt over food plots either.  i have no problem with people hunting over food plots, but i choose not to.  we didn't even plant any this year.  when we do, they are usually planted in the middle of the property, but i choose to get deep in the woods and hunt over native browse.

[jim-n-em]

There is nothing that takes the place of hard scouting and good woodsmanship.  However, I live 30 minutes from my closest hunting spot.  That does not sound too far, but when you have 2 jobs, a wife and 2 kids (involved in everything you can think of), it makes it hard to get out as much.  That is where the cameras come in handy.  I would never depend solely on a camera to determine where and when I am going to hunt.  It can only give you so much information.  It is just another tool, but you have to put the leg work into scouting and knowing the woods to be successful.  I love my cameras.  I live in a subdivision in Louisville and have the cameras in my backyard.  I love coming home everyday to check them.  It is like a kid at christmas.  I never know what I am going to find on that camera. Both of my daughters love checking the pictures with me.   

[hunter22]

Cameras are a great tool to know what is on your property. My son and I killed nice bucks the first day of our blackpowder hunt here in Arkansas. We had pictures of both bucks we killed but the deer were killed 3/8 mile from where the pictures were taken. We got pics of bobcat, coyote, coons, fox, turkey, and two men. That also told me what I suspected.

[Bulldogmikey]

There is nothing that takes the place of hard scouting and good woodsmanship.  However, I live 30 minutes from my closest hunting spot.  That does not sound too far, but when you have 2 jobs, a wife and 2 kids (involved in everything you can think of), it makes it hard to get out as much.  That is where the cameras come in handy.  I would never depend solely on a camera to determine where and when I am going to hunt.  It can only give you so much information.  It is just another tool, but you have to put the leg work into scouting and knowing the woods to be successful.  I love my cameras.  I live in a subdivision in Louisville and have the cameras in my backyard.  I love coming home everyday to check them.  It is like a kid at christmas.  I never know what I am going to find on that camera. Both of my daughters love checking the pictures with me.  

 I Agree! Would Love to have one in the yard! Adam had one in his and it is a lot of fun. Where we hunted camera's would not have been there 30 minutes after you put um up.

Mike

[ronmexico]

There is nothing that takes the place of hard scouting and good woodsmanship.  However, I live 30 minutes from my closest hunting spot.  That does not sound too far, but when you have 2 jobs, a wife and 2 kids (involved in everything you can think of), it makes it hard to get out as much.  That is where the cameras come in handy.  I would never depend solely on a camera to determine where and when I am going to hunt.  It can only give you so much information.  It is just another tool, but you have to put the leg work into scouting and knowing the woods to be successful.  I love my cameras.  I live in a subdivision in Louisville and have the cameras in my backyard.  I love coming home everyday to check them.  It is like a kid at christmas.  I never know what I am going to find on that camera. Both of my daughters love checking the pictures with me.  

i hear ya, i have a 2.5 hr drive to where i do the majority of my deer hunting.  

[ronmexico]

Cameras are a great tool to know what is on your property. My son and I killed nice bucks the first day of our blackpowder hunt here in Arkansas. We had pictures of both bucks we killed but the deer were killed 3/8 mile from where the pictures were taken. We got pics of bobcat, coyote, coons, fox, turkey, and two men. That also told me what I suspected.

you never know what will show up.  a couple of years ago, we had a huge goat on one of our camera's...thing was a beast.