2012 Trail Cam Thread

[hoppe56307]

I am going to say shadow, the other deer is just completely in the shadow.

[sticknstring]

Very cool! Hopefully a buck fawn and you can keep track of him for a few years.

[Bear55]

Giving this a closer look it might be a shadow, it almost looks like the pine tree might be casting the shadow on the deer, is the flood light to the upper right in this photo?

[96trigger]

That is really a tough one, I am going to have to say shadow when at first I was all about it being pie bald. After looking at it closer though, the marks on the deer just fit the shape of pine tree branches too perfectly. It is way to coincidental. The front of the fawn that is shadowed, also shows no source of pibaldness. However, the only strange part I can see is the fact that there is no shadow on the doe, and the fawn seems to have shadows on its hind legs behind the doe, but depending on where the light is, it might be possible to have this.

[BRULEDRIFTER]

If you think it's shadow then it's an albino. I say piebald!

[Fever]

It is definately 100% a shadow of that tree to the right side of the fawn. The Doe is still in the shadow as the light source is coming from the upper right of the picture. It would be cool to see a pie or an albino. This, however is a simple case of shadows playing tricks on the imagination. Turn that light OFF and then you'll see your images on your camera as they should appear.

[Fever]

Walleynutz, I think that buck scores a bit better than 140. I think he has nice main beam length, decent height, decent spread, and it is a 10 point main frame with some junk / addtional split brow on the right. Seems to have good mass at the bases and it also seems to be a big bodied mature 3.5 / 4.5 year old. Just curious... is it a local / corn fed deer or is it from somewhere out of our area?

My cameras are a ways up north near Chippewa Nat. forest and haven't seen my results since putting them out Sept 1st. I'm itching to drive up... but its a 4 hour drive and a 1,000 plus yard walk up and down ravines and over / around about 10 fallen trees... I think I'll wait a couple more weeks. lol. Hope they are still out there.

[titelines]

My buddy ran into this guy while grouse hunting a couple days ago.

[paceman]

Man that is a big bear!

[Finlander]

Wow! That bruin is a Biggie!

[ozzie]

wow that is a sight to see coming around a corner!!

[NoWiser]

Here are the two biggest I have on camera from this summer. It's a 4 hour drive to where we hunt, and a 3 1/2 hour hike in and back to get them, so we set them out early in the summer and pick them up in the fall. Unfortunatly my camera got torn down by a bear 3 days after I put it up, so I only had a picture of one doe. Dad's camera made it a month before getting torn down and he had 7 bucks on there. The 12 is a decent deer, but the 10 is what I have my sights set on! The body looks huge! I bet it's in the same ballpark as my 240# dressed buck from last year!

Hunting the big woods, I don't really expect to see either of these during the season, but you never know. It's fun knowing they are out there!!

[goblueM]

Wow those are big-bodied deer! Have you tried the lockboxes that are for security/bear-proofing? Not to expensive and a nice safeguard

[CANOPY SAM]

Ooofff! Big Bear! BIG DEER! NICE!

[pinkfloyd4ever]

that is one big bear!

[Bear55]

I do the same nowiser, drop mine off in mid summer and picking them up this weekend. 50/50 chance the bears messed with them. That last one is a brute!

[rbs]

Can someone point me to a reliable, clear picture taking, fairly in-expensive trail cam. I bought the Primos Blackout cr @ Wally World and that thing takes horrible night pictures. Thanks!

[96trigger]

You know, I wish I could, they are such a crapshoot. Two guys might buy the same camera, and one might work great, the other might be a pile of garbage. I was very happy with Moultrie's until this year, my flash quite working. I was never impressed with the picture quality(grainy) but they were inexpensive and reliable. I think this is only the 3rd year out for my Moultrie so I am not that impressed anymore. My biggest thing would be to do some research, find one with good battery life and take the plunge. I will however, tell you to stay away from the wildviews, I have had multiple wildview cameras and none of them are still in the woods.

[jerkbait]

I love my Moultrie M-80. All IR cams will take somwhat blurry pics if the animals are moving at night. The night pics from the M-80 are nice and bright though. I have both the M-80 and M-100, love them both.

[96trigger]

I have a moutlrie 5.0 outfitter. Evidently, no flash is a problem moultrie has been having.

[Musky Buck]

Have 2 moultries, lucked out with 1. The 1 takes 1 set of batteries for the year and roughly 3,000 pictures more or less talking Sept.1st-April 1st with no phantom pics. My other I'm on my 2nd set of batteries already and it's not October, man. It took about a thousand on that set. Either way keep the pics coming, my favorite is this thread.

[Lunker]

I likethe Wild Game Innovaton IR5, and they will replace them if they have problems.

Here are a couple of a big boy I've been getting photos off since late july(on my old moultrie).

[WALLEYENUTZ]

RBS - I have 3 Spypoints G4s. they work flawlessly and are good on batteries. check them out on Gander Mountain HSOforum. lots of reveiws and most are good.

bought online they are $99.00

[jacobj12k]

First pics of this 11 pt. Cool video of him trying to smell better because you can see his breath

video - breath

video - a little fighting

AND a first for me, a chubby bear

and video

[alumamusky]

Not sure who or what this is all about??