This is basically the first year I've actually ran cams kinda hard all year and usually only had one or two. I've been considering taking mine down for the year with cold temps coming ane it being winter. So do any of you take yours down for a certain time or leave them up year round? My thinking is colder weather will be hard on batteries and the cams themselves. So just wondering what the pros do ha.
I never take my Covert Red40 down on my main hunting property. I hunt that property 10 months out of the year because of a Depredation Permit. I take others down until late Spring when I start feeding again.
We pull most of ours after the bucks shed. Usually we keep 2 or 3 out all year round. No sense in getting pics of all baldies. We use them to pattern turkeys in the spring too.
I leave them out damn near year round. Now I have more Coverts in my stable, I will be firing up the snowmobile more often :D I got bored middle of last winter and I strapped my Covert black60 to tree my bird feeder was on.. Got some cool pictures.
I don't take them down, except move them to a different area. Mostly water of some sort....I like water lol.
This is my first year running cams as well and I don't plan to take them down....looking forward to getting some sweet winter pics!
I keep mine up 365 days a year. During gun season I only have a few of my cams up on my actual farm though. I pull them from all my other farms. My shelves look like this right now: In the slow months (jan-march) I play around with different camera locations. I've only got a few pictures of owls/eagles and that's on my bucket list to expand this year.
I am in a hunt club with over 50 members and 8000 acres. I would venture to say there are about half of them run cameras, maybe more. I could be wrong, But im guessing that there are only about 10-15 that have more than just a few camera and a few of those run quiet a few. I took my cameras down in September this year. I did not want anybody seeing them and feeling like they should mess with them, had one issue during the summer, and what do ya know i had one camera out for 1 week at a spot i knew bucks were and someone reset the camera and all the pictures were erased. Last year the cameras went up in Feb or so but im thinking about putting them out after season to see what survived.
Well alright then looks like maybe I'll leave a few out all year. Guess didn't know how they'd hold up when and if we get real cold temps but guess shouldnt worry. Thanks everybody Hey and worse case something does go wrong all of then are Coverts so I'll just tell them Pat said it was fine ha ha.
In Ohio I take them down before gun season. Down there you never know who will decide to trespass and try to push deer from our property. Just hate to go checking a cam and find it blown to pieces or just missing. Will probably put them back out the next trip down though to see how much damage the gun hunters did on our ever so dwindling deer population there. In Michigan as it gets closer to gun season we also take them down. Trespassing is bad on most of the properties we have to hunt so they could be gone any time of year but gun season is ridiculous. May put a couple behind the house though to see if anything is lurking around.
