Wow lol I think some people are just a little cranky as it feels like season is barely crawling closer. Awesome pics, love seeing your posts of pic heavy card pulls. Keep it up.
Of course it's going to be a pic heavy card pull... it's from a game farm. I wonder if Pat modified these pictures to make them look better just like he did with his Coverts? Just saying...
Alrighty then clearly you haven't looked at a single one of his last 7000+ posts of his free range properties including multiple states, Im not one for drama or pointless bickering over an online thread but heres a little advice 1. Read the category we are under (Trail Cams) 2. Read the description before the posts (clearly stated it was a high fence farm and to just enjoy the pics) and most importantly 3. Chill bro its Friday crack a beer bow season is 16 days away yeesh
I really don't care what the motivation was for posting the monster buck pics (where they belong), but I enjoyed looking at them and appreciate that he took the time to share them. I'm thinking some of those are $20,000 deer? lmao
I watched a deer auction in one of Warren's shows where one guy bought 1/2 interest in a buck for $70,000.
Thanks for sharing Pat, Monster Raxx posted some pics from one of the USA cameras with the wide angle lens, had a bit of a fish eye look but the wide angle lens is quite appealing to me. Looks like you're not using this, you have any out? I'd like to see more pics from these, I'm more into getting Intel than a pretty picture so find this feature interesting.
I am pretty sure Pat is running the same camera in there than what I used on a couple of bear baits. It technically is not a fish eye lens it is a wide angle lens. It does have that appearance of fish eye because it is in the woods I think instead of a field edge.
If you look at my bear pictures the third picture is the Covert and the fourth picture is the USA. The USA camera is sitting right above the covert in the same tree pointed the same way. I was surprised how much more area was in the USA picture. It does have the fish eye look especially on the edges.
Thanks for the info, I was just looking at your pics again and wondering how the cameras were setup in comparison to one another, that helps greatly!
I meant that this single post was from High fence so of course it would be loaded with pictures. But you must mean the ones where he has admittedly altered the pictures to make them look better when he was still with Covert? I'm just curious if this is being done with the USA cams as well... My apologies, but I like to buy products from guys that stand behind their products without having to modify them just to look better on the internet for promotional purposes. That's not ethical or right in my eyes, just like posting high fence pics on a HUNTING website. Clearly all of you guys here are firm believers in Pat and USA Trail Cams so I don't know why I'm even wasting my breath..
Personally I don't care if someone posts pics from a high fence operation as long as it's disclosed. I've kind of changed my mind about high fence operations to some extent. I still don't like the thought of hunting in them but many of the folks that raise those deer simply do it because they have a fascination with deer and just wanted to be around them all the time. I can certainly understand that. Another thing is that a ton of what we know about deer nutrition, health, biology, etc...etc...comes from the commercial deer industry and university operated high fence facilities. Dr. James Kroll and his team at his high fence facility actually developed the first trail cameras. Also considering that not all deer (actually a fairly small number of them) are grown to hunt. Most of them are grown for breeder stock and commercial meat markets since wild venison is actually illegal to sell. Also most of the hunting scent products we buy year after year come from these same places. Sure there are things about them that are still bad, like anything else but I feel like they too often get hammered a little unfairly and generally out of ignorance like I had before reading about them and watching a lot of youtube vids about them and the people that run them. I'd still never want to run one but I no longer feel they are as vile as I used to think of them being.
Great pics. Regardless, high fence or free range, I love looking at big bucks. I DO NOT look forward to your next post and remembering I live in NC Keep it up
I used to think Pat was a good guy. I used to love coming on here hoping he made a new thread about the Creek buck. When he started working for Covert and posting pictures all the time, I decided Coverts were the camera for me and bought some. After awhile, I read on the QDM forum that Pat openly admitted that he and I will quote him "I will also confess I adjust color and brightness on about 90% of the pics before I post them." The day I read that, I lost all respect for Pat. The majority of the photos he had been posting weren't 100% true photos. So this will be my final question and you won't hear from me after this. Pat do you adjust any color or brightness with any pictures from USA trail cameras. It's a simple yes or no answer.
Who cares.... It's not unusual to alter the original photo in digital photography. Regardless if it was taken with a $5000 DSLR or a $200 trail camera. And its an art in itself... Cool bucks regardless if the are pen deer or not!!! At the same time I don't care for the wide angle lens on the USA cameras. Makes everything look really disproportional.
