I just got back from checking my trail cameras and I am really irritated. After looking through them all I saw that each camera only had like 10 pictures. This was after leaving them out for two weeks. I have the DLC covert 3.0 and Bushnell trophy cam. They took pictures when I set it up and then when I took it down. Thats it. What do you guys think the problem is? I know there is deer activity at the spots so is the motion detection messed up?
wonder if the activity is happening farther away from that camera's. research your camera and see how far the range is before it takes pics, then see if they are out of range from it. also. it could be a setting on the camera that is probably not letting it as well. not to familiar with dlc, bushnell
My thoughts are you probably don't have the right angle or you have the camera set to high, the setup makes a world of difference
I had them in the same place the time before and got tons of pictures. Same setup, same angle, same settings.
Figure out how far out its taking pictures by walking back and forth in front of the camera at different distances. Keep track of your distances and when it stops taking pictures you'll at least know how far the motion detection is good for. That's a start anyway : /
If legal, put some corn out in front of it...20' or so...and see if you still end up skunked. If so, Id say you are having an issue with your cameras. More then likely they just kept their distance because they smelled you from when you set up the cam. Might still have moved through, but at a distance.
Either the camera has a short sensing or wrong angle setting, or the animals don't come to the place anymore. For sensing issue, typically the sensing range falls back to half of the normal range, during winter times and hot weather (when environment temperature is about the same as the body temperature). That's where the long range cameras that excel all others. If you want to give a try to Long Range cameras, on Ebay, you can get a long range try-out special as low as $82 TYD. You'll never look at other cameras once you have tried long range ones.
I would try the baiting idea before I did anything. They're probably still there. Blessings.........Pastorjim
