Back to using the game camera

[ozark]

I have charged the battery, reporgramed the Stealth cam and today had my Grandson put 400 pounds of corn in my feeder. The trail camera is working perfect taking pictures of coming and going in my driveway.
I am getting some useless shots because the trigger speed is slow on this camera. I just wish there was a simple way to share pictures on this forum. Sending them by email is a snap. Why must this be harder?

[chuck41]

Yep. It's time for me to dig mine out of the toy box as well. I think I see a corner of it over in a pile of useless junk on a table in the corner of the computer room.

Sharing pictures on the site is really not that difficult. You do have to size them to fit on the computer first (anything not over 800x600 will work, 400x300 is probably better for this board).

Secondly you have to upload it to the web on photobucket.com.

After that you go to photobucket.com in your account, pick the picture and put your cursor on the picture you want. A box under it will appear and at the bottom of that box is a line that reads "IMG code". Move your cursor over that and click and the text at the right will change color. Click on that text at the right with the "RIGHT" mouse button and then click "copy".

Now go to the Doug's board and place the cursor where you want the picture and click with the "RIGHT" mouse button. Now click the "paste" option and the link will appear. When you post the reply the picture will appear in your post just like this one. This is 400x300.


Yes it is more difficult than including a picture in an e-mail, but after you do it a couple dozen times it will be a piece of cake.

[Buckrub]

Sheepish here...........*ahem*.......I tried a couple of cheaper Moultrie game cameras and never could get them to work. I sat in stand and watched deer almost eat them for hours, then there'd be no pictures.

I finally gave up. Too much trouble. DadGUM it's a neat idea, though. I'd love to know what all is nocturnal around me.

Ozark, whatever happened to the digital camera you got? There were some AMAZING pictures of a hound dog and some flowers and then.....no more pics. You run out of batteries?? I miss 'em.

[ozark]

Buckrub the camera takes good pictures but I have been having trouble posting the pictures on the forum. Now I have lost my password to photobucket. Maybe soon I will find the solution. We have to hire a housecleaner that seems to come in to hide things from me. She doesn't like clutter and I can't work without it. My trail cam was set up with my feeder in view today so maybe I will have some good pictures in a few days. Ben

[raf]

The camera my children bought me is sitting in the house and I should have brought it with me this week. I'm at the cabin putting in new cabinets in the cabin. Could have set it up to see what's around at night.;

[chuck41]

I see these expensive infra red cameras at the store and can hardly keep from laughing. Guys buy these to keep from spooking the deer, but when I watch them, they come right up to the camera, get a flash and never stop feeding. I guess the IR cameras can probably get longer range at night, but the regular ones don't seem to bother the deer at all. Judging from the number of pictures I get they must not bother raccoons either.

[edge]

IMO, I would buy the IR camera to keep other folks from seeing the flash and stealing the camera

edge.

[northny]

My experience is just the opposite of Chuck41. I have run several tests with my camera's, and once I have the flash turned on the number of pictures taken at night and during the day decrease dramatically. Now I am not placing them at a feeder, which may have a different result. I have them at either game trails or boardering food plots. Deer will tolerate the noise of the camera taking picture (but you can see they do react to it). But I can have it out for weeks, getting 5 or 10 deer per day and even more "black pictures" per night. Once I have flash activated, within 3 or four days they have changed their behavior.

Now these are deer in a rural area, 1/2 to 1 mile to closet road and farther to a house so they are not use to night time lights

I will not use flash again until I have an IR job.

[wilmsmeyer]

Got my Cuddie Back Capture out back on 5/30. Checked it on 6/6. No bait, just on a likely trail. Had a bunch of deer, a yote and a fox. Here's a few of the better pix. This camera was $200 and is so simple that a caveman could make it work.

[whyohe]

willms, on the way to the vet yesterday at about 4:00pm i nearly hit a buck that looked like the one in your pic. that is a pretty big yote there it look like to me.

[ozark]

Good pictures Wilms. I went to check mine and had nothing on it but bucks. Six in on exposure, three in another and a single in the third. All by flash at night. Whyohe offered to post them for me but for some reason he can't get them by email. I keep getting notices from postmaster that he is not one of their customers. Oh well, maybe when my daughter or son visits I can get them to show me what is wrong with my photobucket efforts. I need more does. LOL

[ozark]

Recent photos from my wildlife camera @ feeder.

[whyohe]

well done ozark. nice pics

[chuck41]

Jun 9, 2009 9:55:23 GMT -5 edge said:

IMO, I would buy the IR camera to keep other folks from seeing the flash and stealing the camera

edge.

From the colors in Ozark's night shots I would assume that is a flash camera. Sure doesn't appear that any of those bucks are particularly spooked.

Edge, I think you have got something about the IR to keep folks from stealing it. I suspect that there is not a lot of thieves running around on Ozark's property, but we do have a few around our deer lease. Haven't heard of anyone stealing a camera yet, but they have stolen stands and a few other things.