Trail cameras make you a 24/7 hunter and provide a presence in the woods that could only be dreamed of a decade ago. However, as technologically advanced as modern cameras have become, there are still mistakes to be made.
I once forgot to include a media card on an Alaska bear hunt and had to buy one at a hardware store at the last minute. Unfortunately, the card didn’t register and the bruin that actually took a bite out of the camera didn’t get the “selfie” it was after.
Tammy Sapp writes on a wide variety of topics for the Bass Pro Shops website and lists a number of easy mistakes you might be making with trail cameras. This quick read will have your bucks sharply in focus.
While trail cameras are an amazing window into the wild, if you’ve ever ended up looking at hundreds of empty frames or pictures of leaves shaking in the breeze, you have probably hurled curses at the technology gods. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. Dr. Grant Woods, RedHead Pro Hunting Team member and host of “Growing Deer TV,” said the first step to getting eye-popping pics of local bucks is make sure you aren’t making any of the following mistakes.
Setting up your trail camera facing the wrong direction
The surest way to produce images with blown out highlights and lens flares is to set up your game camera so it’s facing east, west or south. Woods recommends setting your trail cam so it points north to capture good images throughout the year.
Also, it’s just not cool to post pictures to Facebook of fluttering leaves, waving branches and other shots of vegetation in action. So, take the time on the front end to clear a good path for capturing images and you won’t be disappointed later.
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