Showing posts with label Trail Camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trail Camera. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Illinois Trail Camera Bucks 2014
A look at some of the bucks we got on trail cam on our lease in Illinois during the 2014 season.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Primos DPS Time Lapse Camera Review!
I recently add a new Camera to my stable of Trail Cameras.....the Primos DPS Time Lapse Camera!
This is a really neat little unit and can provide information that a conventional motion triggered camera just cannot do.
On one of my leases there is a historic turkey roost where the birds roost every night. This is a spot in the corner of a pasture that borders a creek swamp and I have never been there and not seen turkeys roosting there!
I was running a Bushnell Trail camera there and decided to move the DPS unit there as well for a test run. I discovered that the birds are coming from a different direction to enter the pasture and are not using that roost right now. Since this camera is set to take a photo every 5 seconds, I get a clear sense of where the game came from, when, how long they were in the area and which direction they left in. The beauty of the camera is you collect data even when the game is too far away to trigger a standard motion sensing camera.
One negative is that this is a daylight camera only and does not take photo's at night.
I found the photo's to be pretty clear depending on the lighting. I would say the photo quality is average to slightly above.
You can set this camera to take a picture every 5 or 10 seconds. I prefer the 5 second setting myself. A lot can happen in 10 seconds and an animal could walk past the camera without getting his picture made. You can always delete pictures but a missed opportunity is lost for ever!
The camera was easy to program and set-up. It requires (8) AA batteries for power.
One of the best aspects of this camera is the PRICE! You can buy (4) of these for what you'd pay for a plot watcher!
You will need a pretty large card to store all of these pictures. The unit will handle up to a 32gb card and you definitely want to go with the 32gb. Otherwise, you will be servicing the camera every couple days if you use something like an 8gb. I am using the "Sandisk ULTRA" but the "Extreme" or "Standard" will do a good job also. The Kingston "Ultimare X" or "Standard" cards work well with the DPS camera also. As far as class of card....class 10 is great but I have used class 4 also and cannot tell any difference. For individual photo's, the class is probably not a factor.
The camera comes with software to watch each days time lapse. You can watch a whole days activities in 3 minutes or less! The software is fairly intuitive and you'll get the hang of it without to much trouble. Set up was the only place I had any issues with the software. There was not much instruction on installation.
As far as using the photo's you collect.....That's a whole other issue. The photo's use an extension that is not supported by many photo editing software's. I was able to use a free photo editor called "Irfanview" to edit the photo's but you should make a duplicate copy of them before you open them with Irfanview as it will change the file extension. Once that happens, the DPS program software can't read it anymore.
I was able to make the videos below from the time lapse collection by doing a simple screen capture with "Corel VideoStudio Pro x5", a video editing package you can get for about $49. The DPS software has a share button but I could not get that to really do anything and there were no instructions that I found on how it works.
Here is a hot link to the technical data on the Primos DPS Camera. This is a link to Amazon. In the interest of transparency I do receive a minuscule commission if you decided to make a purchase. However, if you can find a better price somewhere else, by all means, save some money! You may even want to consider a used unit on eBay, just be sure it is the latest version as earlier units had problems using certain cards.
Here are a few videos made from the DPS time lapse photo's....
This is a really neat little unit and can provide information that a conventional motion triggered camera just cannot do.
I was running a Bushnell Trail camera there and decided to move the DPS unit there as well for a test run. I discovered that the birds are coming from a different direction to enter the pasture and are not using that roost right now. Since this camera is set to take a photo every 5 seconds, I get a clear sense of where the game came from, when, how long they were in the area and which direction they left in. The beauty of the camera is you collect data even when the game is too far away to trigger a standard motion sensing camera.
One negative is that this is a daylight camera only and does not take photo's at night.
I found the photo's to be pretty clear depending on the lighting. I would say the photo quality is average to slightly above.
You can set this camera to take a picture every 5 or 10 seconds. I prefer the 5 second setting myself. A lot can happen in 10 seconds and an animal could walk past the camera without getting his picture made. You can always delete pictures but a missed opportunity is lost for ever!
The camera was easy to program and set-up. It requires (8) AA batteries for power.
One of the best aspects of this camera is the PRICE! You can buy (4) of these for what you'd pay for a plot watcher!
You will need a pretty large card to store all of these pictures. The unit will handle up to a 32gb card and you definitely want to go with the 32gb. Otherwise, you will be servicing the camera every couple days if you use something like an 8gb. I am using the "Sandisk ULTRA" but the "Extreme" or "Standard" will do a good job also. The Kingston "Ultimare X" or "Standard" cards work well with the DPS camera also. As far as class of card....class 10 is great but I have used class 4 also and cannot tell any difference. For individual photo's, the class is probably not a factor.
The camera comes with software to watch each days time lapse. You can watch a whole days activities in 3 minutes or less! The software is fairly intuitive and you'll get the hang of it without to much trouble. Set up was the only place I had any issues with the software. There was not much instruction on installation.
As far as using the photo's you collect.....That's a whole other issue. The photo's use an extension that is not supported by many photo editing software's. I was able to use a free photo editor called "Irfanview" to edit the photo's but you should make a duplicate copy of them before you open them with Irfanview as it will change the file extension. Once that happens, the DPS program software can't read it anymore.
I was able to make the videos below from the time lapse collection by doing a simple screen capture with "Corel VideoStudio Pro x5", a video editing package you can get for about $49. The DPS software has a share button but I could not get that to really do anything and there were no instructions that I found on how it works.
Here is a hot link to the technical data on the Primos DPS Camera. This is a link to Amazon. In the interest of transparency I do receive a minuscule commission if you decided to make a purchase. However, if you can find a better price somewhere else, by all means, save some money! You may even want to consider a used unit on eBay, just be sure it is the latest version as earlier units had problems using certain cards.
Here are a few videos made from the DPS time lapse photo's....
Best of Hunts,
Larry Stephens
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Florida Black Bear Pictures 2011
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We have been plagued the last few years with the expanding bear population. I have had as man as 3 bears feeding in front of this trail camera at one time. The interesting thing is that they are not to shy about showing up in the daylight.
Most of the time the deer sightings start dropping off when the bears start using your feeding site regularily.
Not to mention the cost of feeding a bear. If you notice, in the pictures they usually lay down and lounge while they are picking up corn.
The trail camera is not a upper end camera but the pictures were not to bad since most were taken in the daylight. I believe this is a 2.1 mp Bushnell camera. You can get a little info on this camera and some of the other better cameras I have been using in this post 7 Bucks in 4 Days.
Hopefully, the FWC will open some kind of limited bear season in the near future. From what I have seen recently, there are more bears now than I have ever seen. I am hearing the same from many of my other hunting friends.
Hope you enjoy the pic.'s
Larry
We have been plagued the last few years with the expanding bear population. I have had as man as 3 bears feeding in front of this trail camera at one time. The interesting thing is that they are not to shy about showing up in the daylight.
Most of the time the deer sightings start dropping off when the bears start using your feeding site regularily.
Not to mention the cost of feeding a bear. If you notice, in the pictures they usually lay down and lounge while they are picking up corn.
The trail camera is not a upper end camera but the pictures were not to bad since most were taken in the daylight. I believe this is a 2.1 mp Bushnell camera. You can get a little info on this camera and some of the other better cameras I have been using in this post 7 Bucks in 4 Days.
Hopefully, the FWC will open some kind of limited bear season in the near future. From what I have seen recently, there are more bears now than I have ever seen. I am hearing the same from many of my other hunting friends.
Hope you enjoy the pic.'s
Larry
Friday, October 7, 2011
Florida Bow Hunting Report #3 - Sept. 26, 2011
Florida Bow Hunting Report #3
Sept. 26, 11, Second Weekend
Friday, Sept. 23,11
Friday afternoon I usually knock off early, load the ATV, Lacy my blue tick and all the other necessary gear and head for the hunting club for the weekend but I got tied up and had to fall back on my back up plan and hunt at the house.
There was not much to report. The total deer sightings for the evening was zero! The corn had barely been touched and there was not to much for trail camera activity. This stand is really off this year. I think the bumper crop of palmetto berries is mostly to blame. The acorns had a pretty good year also and the deer just don’t need to move much to fill their paunch.
Saturday, Sept. 24,11
I headed for Cabbage creek this morning. My plan was to hunt the Kill zone Stand as it is my only stand with good deer activity. When I was settled in the stand I glassed over to the neighbors stand across the line and there he sat! This pretty much set the tone for how the rest of the weekend would play out. There was no activity at my stand but when I got down and checked the trail camera it had an astounding 1250 pictures in one week!
My hunting buddy Steve killed a small doe with his crossbow to break the ice for this year. He made a good shot on the deer but the blood trail provided by the two blade Rage head was weak. Tracking help was render by a couple other club members and a recovery was made in a hundred yards or so.
Another club member killed a 4 pt of some kind but I did not get to see it.
There had been a considerable amount of buck activity on the cameras this week including (3) different buck fights. As usual, most of the activity was under the cover of dark but there had been (4) different bucks at the kill zone stand during shooting light. Of course I was elsewhere.
Sunday, Sept. 25,11
This mornings hunt was also uneventful. However, when I reviewed the trail camera pictures there had been a great looking 9pt at one of my stands but that is the only deer that has been by there. I decided to stay and hunt the evening hunt after seeing the big 9. The weather however, was threatening and looked like it could develop into some severe storms. I ended up getting rained on (3) different times but only lightly and never really got wet. Once again the deer sightings were zero!
That’s pretty much the report for now.
Good Luck!
Sept. 26, 11, Second Weekend
Friday, Sept. 23,11
Friday afternoon I usually knock off early, load the ATV, Lacy my blue tick and all the other necessary gear and head for the hunting club for the weekend but I got tied up and had to fall back on my back up plan and hunt at the house.
There was not much to report. The total deer sightings for the evening was zero! The corn had barely been touched and there was not to much for trail camera activity. This stand is really off this year. I think the bumper crop of palmetto berries is mostly to blame. The acorns had a pretty good year also and the deer just don’t need to move much to fill their paunch.
Saturday, Sept. 24,11
I headed for Cabbage creek this morning. My plan was to hunt the Kill zone Stand as it is my only stand with good deer activity. When I was settled in the stand I glassed over to the neighbors stand across the line and there he sat! This pretty much set the tone for how the rest of the weekend would play out. There was no activity at my stand but when I got down and checked the trail camera it had an astounding 1250 pictures in one week!
The old notch eared doe. She's been here for 2 years and I have
never laid eyes on her!
Another club member killed a 4 pt of some kind but I did not get to see it.
There had been a considerable amount of buck activity on the cameras this week including (3) different buck fights. As usual, most of the activity was under the cover of dark but there had been (4) different bucks at the kill zone stand during shooting light. Of course I was elsewhere.
Sunday, Sept. 25,11
This mornings hunt was also uneventful. However, when I reviewed the trail camera pictures there had been a great looking 9pt at one of my stands but that is the only deer that has been by there. I decided to stay and hunt the evening hunt after seeing the big 9. The weather however, was threatening and looked like it could develop into some severe storms. I ended up getting rained on (3) different times but only lightly and never really got wet. Once again the deer sightings were zero!
That’s pretty much the report for now.
Good Luck!
Larry S.
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