2023 Trail Cam Pics

I could tell from the eyes it was a bear but couldn’t get my brain to understand why it was upside down. Kind of made it look like a platypus to me.

It’s happened the last few years now, maybe I should start wearing gloves and spraying them down when I put them up. Appears to be a descent size bear.

Technically not a trail camera. These 3 amigos were laying in my neighbors yard this morning when I took the dog for a walk.

We watched these 2 through the binoculars for about a hour. Hard to tell by the pics but the one is the biggest buck I’ve ever seen in my surrounding area. Or I guess probably ever. And his partner was the tallest 8 I ever seen. Pics were from my phone at 200 yards. There were 6 more bucks in the field and 13 doe

Couple more in the same area

Hopefully those guys start bedding on your land soon

Youbetcha wrote:

Hopefully those guys start bedding on your land soon

If not I will be going that way.

Everyones cameras been quiet ? No good recent pictures?

Going out today to get checked and haven’t uploaded the latest cell pics.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Couple more in the same area

Does the one in the first pic have a drop tine or is it just a branch in the background? His left beam. He is a bruiser regardless.

Has been slower the last few days but here are some I got recently.

Here is some from the past 10 days or so

Just looked through this thread for the first time… boy am I ready for some deer stand time!

You guys have something to look forward too!

AnotherFisherman wrote:

Just looked through this thread for the first time… boy am I ready for some deer stand time!

A couple weeks and counting. I have been annoying the lady friend. All I been talking about is bow season.

This guy has been making the rounds tonight giving me plenty of pictures.

Stanley- That is the weirdest trail cam picture I have ever seen. Im not saying it is, but that deer looks pretty “pasted in” that picture

It does look photoshopped doesn’t it. Here he is the same night from a different cam.

The deer seem to have shifted, not sure if it’s because I was in the woods or just a typical pattern shift. But this guy came through last night

Here’s one of the good young bucks that showed up over the last couple weeks. Now they just need to be smart and stick around the farm so they survive another year or two.

For those with chipped trail cams, how long do you give them before checking? I have a few out, and my plan is to pull them the week before season starts…but I’d like to look sooner!

BigWerm wrote:

For those with chipped trail cams, how long do you give them before checking? I have a few out, and my plan is to pull them the week before season starts…but I’d like to look sooner!

Knowing you’re a public land guy id check them when you hunt near them at this point. Unless you plan on moving them to check out a new area. Then it might be worth the trip.

BigWerm wrote:

For those with chipped trail cams, how long do you give them before checking? I have a few out, and my plan is to pull them the week before season starts…but I’d like to look sooner!

If its a fresh set, I give it a week to 10 days. Otherwise I give it a couple weeks. If they are living in the area they will be in there. Granted this is on private land

I’m with Jake. First time I set a camera I normally check it a little sooner to make sure it’s not just taking a bunch of pics of nothing then I stretch it out to 2-3 weeks. On the private all cameras are on field edges to prevent spooking deer more than needed. If I had cameras on bedding areas I would check them as little as possible, but if you never check them what’s the point of having them out there. When running them on public I always swapped cards in the rain, so I made less noise and left less smell. Knowing that it all depended on weather. It could be anywhere from 2 weeks to a month. Doing that I never felt like I was the reason bucks abandoned the area.

I have a cheaper Stealth cam that I use on one of my properties. I pulled the card today after 2 weeks and it was totally blank. I know there should be pics of deer or at least some of me walking in and out. Do SD cards just go bad all of a sudden? Or if they get to hot or cold they can go defective? I will admit its a cheaper card, but It has worked fine at other times this year

Cards definitely go bad. I had a mass die off of SD cards this year. I think I replaced 8 of my oldest cards this summer. New cards and all cameras are taking pics again. It’s also worth trying to reformat the card first. I think it was my stealth cams that didn’t like cards that had been in a different brand camera without reformatting.

Jake D wrote:

I have a cheaper Stealth cam that I use on one of my properties. I pulled the card today after 2 weeks and it was totally blank. I know there should be pics of deer or at least some of me walking in and out. Do SD cards just go bad all of a sudden? Or if they get to hot or cold they can go defective?

I checked one of mine and had the same thing happen, almost totally blank. No idea as it took a pic of me before leaving, but nothing in the weeks after except one all white pic and it was still “On” and full battery.

I know when I bought my Moultrie they said in the manual that I had to use a “slow” SD card or it wouldnt work properly. Has this chip worked in the past?

I’ve seen this guy in the area a lot.

haleysgold wrote:

I’ve seen this guy in the area a lot.

Nice one!