Trail Cameras

[mlowe]

I was wondering what is everyone out there using for trail cameras. I have been building my own now for a couple years. I know what my pictures look like lets have a look at yours. Here are a couple from out in the woods from the north. So us your best pictures.

I got this 2 weeks ago.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC04097.jpg

And here is the movie... Make sure your speakers are on for this the cow and calf do a bit of chatting. (3.5 min long not for dial up people)

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/th_M4V00004.jpg (http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/?action=view&current=M4V00004.flv)

Got these ones last year.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02240.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02954.jpg


The darn snow weighed the branches down on this picture.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02246.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02221.jpg
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02457.jpg

I have hundreds of pictures to many to list but his is a good sample of what I have got from my home made units.

[Viking]

Great pictures and video. Have to add a trail cam to the xmas wish list

[Spuddge]

great pics and video, that cow sure was interested in the scent around the camera. I've got to get me one of those!

[spreerider]

how do you setup your camera? what type do you use? i work with underwater cameras often so i have access to some good ones, what is your recording device or are you broadcasting a signal?

[mlowe]

how do you setup your camera? what type do you use? i work with underwater cameras often so i have access to some good ones, what is your recording device or are you broadcasting a signal?

The whole unit taking the still pic`s are 7.25 X 5 X 2 inches. I use sony 4.1 Mega pixel cameras so you know the photo quality is great (as you can see). The movie is a whole diffrent thing... But I am almost done building my first movie camera. This camera is an infrared camera with microphone of course. The movies just like the pictures are stored on a memory stick. You can get just over 1000 pictures on a camera with a 2 gig memory stick. I have built a few for friends over the past year and they all really like them. No complaints yet....

[spreerider]

how did you waterproof the camera?
if anyone is interested in our underwater cameras they can pm me for the company website and phone number.
are you using a motion sensor to trigger the photo or is it a option on your camera model?

[mlowe]

how did you waterproof the camera?
if anyone is interested in our underwater cameras they can pm me for the company website and phone number.
are you using a motion sensor to trigger the photo or is it a option on your camera model?

Your partly right I have an external sensor connected to the sony camera . I rewire the camera to turn on and take the picture via the sensor. And yes they are water proof because of the case they are in. You can see from the snow they can handle the weather. I have run my camera set ups as low as 20 deg C.

[mlowe]

I should add I have even gotten pictures of humming birds with my setup.

[Tikka7mm]

Those are some really great pics mlowe...looks like I might have to upgrade to a custom trail cam. It looks like you use the same spot to mount your camera year round. I'm using a stealth cam right now but the pictures are no where a clear as what yours are.

[mlowe]

What are using? I get a picture taken in about 1 sec after sensing the animal?

[mlowe]

Oh I should mention that 3 pics are from the same spot. Look at the date and time in the corner.

[daycort]

bull, lynx, bear

[mlowe]

bull, lynx, bear

Do you want more? Or is that enough?

[martyonthewater]

Do you want more? Or is that enough?
I know I would enjoy more pics but that's just me:grin:

[mlowe]

I know I would enjoy more pics but that's just me:grin:


Ok here ya go!

Mule buck 4X4
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02739.jpg

Black bear with bugs (mosquitos)
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/bugsandbear.jpg

Mule buck in the timber
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02765.jpg

5X6 Bull elk 6th point is short
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/5X6elkafterwards2.jpg


5 humming birds in total 3 in flight 1 hard to see (2 above the van)
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC00042.jpg

Mule doe and fawn in the rear
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02439.jpg

Bull elk starting to grow horn
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/elkhorns.jpg

[mlowe]

I should have mentioned that I also use my camera for home security in the winter. This proves that the big guy is real...

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC03341.jpg

[Sitkaspruce]

Here is a few I have collected over the last few years

Little bull elk
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TCPicts006.jpg
Curious liitle guy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailCam007.jpg
Moose
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailCam004.jpg
Cow elk
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailCam001.jpg
Just starting
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/Kensmisc-16.jpg
Little buck rubbing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/Kensmisc-15.jpg
Nice Buck
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailCam05027.jpg
Nice whitetail
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailCam05018.jpg
Big Mulie..sorry for the blurring, but this is what happens when it goes from warm then drops to -20.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailcamDec014.jpg
Little mulie
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/TrailcamDec01.jpg
Nice buck
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/Sitkaspruce/Trail008.jpg

To reduce debris on the camera, I took a cheap tupperware container and cut it so that the one side is pinned between the camera case and the tree and the other side hangs over the camera case, stopping snow, rain and debris from falling on the camera lens.

Cheers

SS

[ThinAir]

You guys have some sweet pics! I've just started playing around with mine....I'm learning the hard way- the first time I set mine up I came back a couple weeks later and had over 50 pics! The only problem was that I couldn't find any animals in any of them. I realized that I set it up in a place where the branches moved in a strong wind and set the camera off!

[mlowe]

SS Nice pics, also I see you running a sony camera also. Which one are you using? I have to say I really like your calf moose pic the best. It rocks.... Thinair What are you running for a camera?

[ThinAir]

SS Nice pics, also I see you running a sony camera also. Which one are you using? I have to say I really like your calf moose pic the best. It rocks.... Thinair What are you running for a camera?


Yikes.... I'm embarrassed to say I can't remember. I have it at my brothers place right now. I know it's made by Bushnell- one of their entry level cameras. I think I need to up-grade to something a little more reliable.
I don't think it's taking pics "fast" enough. I played around with it a bit, and it doesn't seem to catch the movement fast enough?

I read the instructions and there isn't any sort of adjustment to shorten the time from movement sensed, to picture taken.

[mlowe]

Yikes.... I'm embarrassed to say I can't remember.


Thats cool have you got any pics from the unit?

Here is a few more of 4 yote pups this summer on some family property down south this year and...

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC03296.jpg

WhiteTail doe
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC01823.jpg

Little bull moose
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC02236.jpg

[mlowe]

Here is what I'm working on...NEXT!!!! This is the back yard in 100% dark with my infrared lights.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/th_CLIP0001.jpg (http://s175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/?action=view&current=CLIP0001.flv)

[mooseless]

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/thumbs/SUNP0007.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=10438&limit=recent)oh crap! why is the picture small??

[In4TheHunt]

Great pics and vid. How far north do you have to go for shots like these?

[mlowe]

Great pics and vid. How far north do you have to go for shots like these?


All the way :mrgreen:... Sorry but I don't like to say where I live. But people don't realize you can get pic like this any where. You have to find out where the game is. Just think of it as hunting year round. Then when hunting season does start you know where to go and start at least. From past experience I know that some critters don't hang out in the same areas year round. Some like one area say for spring and a different area for the fall. Hope this makes sense.

[mlowe]

Just to show you what I mean here are a few pictures that I got while I was on vacation in the Kamloops area.

Doe and Fawn on a natural lick.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC00073.jpg


Black bear this is the same spot as the yote pups picture.
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC03301.jpg


Little bull moose growing some horn. Notice the cabin (the white in the gable ends) back ground
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC04007.jpg


Just get a camera and start having some fun. The bad thing is with the price of fuel being so high you need to keep the camera to a reasonable distance away.

[BigBanger]

Great pics .

[mlowe]

Here are a couple from last week. Notice the time and the pictures are from the 15th, 4 hours apart.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC03589.jpg

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w128/mlowe_bucket/DSC03601.jpg

[Dirty]

How much does it cost you to build one of the camera units? They are really cool, I wouldn't mind having one or two of them.

[mlowe]

Dirty pm sent.