Trail camera questions...

gator

Bought my first trail camera and plan to set it up by a water hole that I plan to archery hunt this year.

Not being familiar with how these things work I'm not sure how to set the settings......for example what would be the best interval in between shots?

It will take from 1-3 pics at a time so what seems to work the best for you guys?

Archery deer season isn't until December so I have plenty of time for trial and error but any help will be much appreciated.

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1965Jeff

You don't want a card full of pics of grass waving back and forth, if you don't have to worry about thieves just mount it to a fence post


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gator

Not many posts where I'm going to hunt but was thinking I might take along some post hole diggers and put a 4x4 in a good spot.

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Fisheadgib

All of the different brands and models have different features and you didn't mention what you have but I would start with no less than one minute intervals between shots. I've played around quite a bit with my camera's over the years and one minute works the best for me. Almost everything sticks around for at least a minute and anything less than that gives you tons of extra pic's to sort through.

Fisheadgib

gator wrote: »

Not many posts where I'm going to hunt but was thinking I might take along some post hole diggers and put a 4x4 in a good spot.

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Drive a T-post into the ground and call it a day.

Jeff in TX

T Post and 4" PVC pipe. I cut the PVC pipe to about 6" or so in length to fit the cameras. Hit with some flat green paint and done, it's a simple as it gets.! This is how I have all of my game cameras mounted. Plus I added a screw on each side of the strap to keep the cows from bumping it and turning the cameras.

In addition I have my game cameras take a pic every minute. Try to cut away any trees or bushes within 50' or so. This way you avoid getting a ton of pics when the wind blows. I know sometimes easier said than done!

Six-Gun

I use motion trigger with 30 second intervals. My area can have deer moving through in bunches and moving somewhat briskly, so a slightly faster rest is desired at the cost of filling the card up faster and using more battery.

Words of warning: be absolutely sure that you do NOT allow it to get into an uncontrolled time interval mode. It will start snapping pics at a fixed time interval rather than be triggered by motion and fill up the card/kill your batteries in a serious hurry. If you want to use a fixed time intervate "plotwatcher" mode, be sure to set a time window so that it will only enter that mode for a given window. Otherwise, it will snap, and snap, and snap...

gator

Thanks for the replies guys, just for a function test I set it up in the classroom while the cadets took a test yesterday and it worked fine......didn't catch anyone cheating.

I'm going to try one pic at 30 second intervals to start.

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