ok guys I have never set up trail cameras or anything but I am going to this year. We bought some land down in Peggs that is loaded with deer. I am attempting to plant my first food plot and anyways I bought a pair of trail cameras at Atwoods thinking a camera is a camera right? well wrong lol. I went cheap and got 2 moultrie plot stalker cameras. I believe I wasted my money on these for the purpose I want to use them for.
Last week 3/20 went down there picked out the spot to put the plot at. Tilled out the area to plant. set my trail camera up on a tree overlooking some of the area that was tilled. set the camera on 10sec. intervals thinking that was the reset time between pics taken when the sensor picks movement up. Incorrect. Once the sensor is broken it continues to take photos every 10secs until memory card and/or batteries die. So I set the camera up at 2:20ish that day and it filled the memory at around 1 in the morning.
Now which brings up my next problem with the camera. It showed on packaging that it will take black and white photos at night. my camera did not. It gave me pitch black photos from about 8pm to 1am that night. it filled the memory around then or decided to shut off and quit taking photos. I would like to see what visits the area at night also.
So today I went down there to spread fertilizer and spray some killz-all around the border of plot to kill grass back from the tilled area. that is when I changed the trail cameras out. then when I got home hooked up the usb is when I realized above issues.
My problem is I don't have the time to go down there everyday to change cameras or memory card. its about 30miles from where I live and diesel is to high to do that through the summer especially if it will not last more than a day. the last don't mind so much once a week but would prefer only having to go down there to checkTrail Camerasevery 2 weeks and check on plot making sure its growing and all.
so if you know of a good camera what i am looking for is a camera that will take a photo. Go through the set interval of time and then wait til something breaks the sensor to take another photo. and be able to take a photo at night and depending on cost one without the flash. but to save some money I will live with camera flash at night.
this camera can be one from a few years back too. I don't mind buying a used one Ebay is likely the first place I will go to buy another now. Get a better price and try it out and sometimes can find new un-opened from 2-3 years ago for half of the same camera being sold at bass pro.
and any advice on food plots and camera placement would be nice too. thanks nathan
here are a few pics the camera did pick up. Not bad pic quality in my mind for a $30 trial camera?
Last week 3/20 went down there picked out the spot to put the plot at. Tilled out the area to plant. set my trail camera up on a tree overlooking some of the area that was tilled. set the camera on 10sec. intervals thinking that was the reset time between pics taken when the sensor picks movement up. Incorrect. Once the sensor is broken it continues to take photos every 10secs until memory card and/or batteries die. So I set the camera up at 2:20ish that day and it filled the memory at around 1 in the morning.
Now which brings up my next problem with the camera. It showed on packaging that it will take black and white photos at night. my camera did not. It gave me pitch black photos from about 8pm to 1am that night. it filled the memory around then or decided to shut off and quit taking photos. I would like to see what visits the area at night also.
So today I went down there to spread fertilizer and spray some killz-all around the border of plot to kill grass back from the tilled area. that is when I changed the trail cameras out. then when I got home hooked up the usb is when I realized above issues.
My problem is I don't have the time to go down there everyday to change cameras or memory card. its about 30miles from where I live and diesel is to high to do that through the summer especially if it will not last more than a day. the last don't mind so much once a week but would prefer only having to go down there to checkTrail Camerasevery 2 weeks and check on plot making sure its growing and all.
so if you know of a good camera what i am looking for is a camera that will take a photo. Go through the set interval of time and then wait til something breaks the sensor to take another photo. and be able to take a photo at night and depending on cost one without the flash. but to save some money I will live with camera flash at night.
this camera can be one from a few years back too. I don't mind buying a used one Ebay is likely the first place I will go to buy another now. Get a better price and try it out and sometimes can find new un-opened from 2-3 years ago for half of the same camera being sold at bass pro.
and any advice on food plots and camera placement would be nice too. thanks nathan
here are a few pics the camera did pick up. Not bad pic quality in my mind for a $30 trial camera?
