jgbennett6 Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 I jsut purchased 2 35mm stealth cams and was curious if anyone had any pointers for me, so far teh only pic i have is of me checking on them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyderpancake Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams some of those work well and some don't. I went thru 3 before i got a good one. Use the test function to see how far away you can be to trigger it. I found that they had to be pretty close to mine. I usually put mine 4-5 yards off a trail, mount it about 4 feet high, and put a stick or something behind the top to angle it downwards. I have used one for a coupla years, but i am tired of messing with film and want to go ahead a get a good digital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slughunter Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams put them over a bait pile/ food source if you can, they trigger kinda slow and so the deer needs to be in front of the camera for a wile. other wise put it pointing up the trail so you get a picture of the deer comming head on, then it will trigger fast enough and you get a good picture. if I think of anything more I will tell you -shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bownarow Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams Place the camera about 3 ft off the ground and angle it slightly down a well used trail. Pointing it perpendicular to the trail will not allow sufficient trigger time. Also, do not set the camera facing the South unless it is completely gaurded from direct sunlight. Do not check the camera too often. Once a week should be sufficient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams Saw them at wal mart for $40 and was not even the slightest bit tempted to get one after as much as I have spent on processing and film over the past couple years. The stealth cam was a lot of fun though, just wish I had waited and gotten a digital, as much as I spent on film and processing in the couple years use of the stealth I could have paid for a nice digital. My advice in all honesty if you have them going into areas where you expect high frequency of pics is to take them back and invest in a digital. After getting my leaf river digital, I would never buy another film game cam. But if you are insistent upon using the 35mm stealth cams, they do take decent pics and do trigger ok if you get them set up right. I liked to set mine up about 3-4 feet high with a wedge behind the cam to give it a angle downwards. Seemed to pick up better for me like that. Also make sure you have the cam facing north or south otherwise yiou will get false triggers. For checking your triggers, you can put it in test, if you have a kid say age anywhere from 4-8(older kids would have to hunch over a bit), they are perfect to have walk back and forth in front of the cam out to what you are looking for to be its effective range, if it picks them up, it should also pick up a deer, and it is fun for the kids to help daddy with this kind of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgbennett6 Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams Thanks for the reply, i would take tehm back, but these are my first and i got them for 20$, i put it on test and it worked alright, and i got a few pics of me checking them, so i guess it works... i will have to see, thanks for teh help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spineshot Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams we have used them for the last 4-5 years. Trial and error before we got some good pics. Slow trigger for trails. make sure the deer are heading directly to the camera and no side shots. over bait works great. test it first, so you have it at the right height. coons and other rodents if you have it too low. nice pics once you figure it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Re: Help with Game cams The stealth cams do work well at mineral sites. This fall would have been the hird season we had our stealth cam. The last probably 10-15 rolls I ran on the camera had to be hand rewound in a closet because the rewind mechanism quit working. Really I cannot complain too much, the housing broke in frigid temps the second year of use, got a new back from stealth then we got another few months or so of use from it before the new back also broke. Think all in all we processed somewhere between 80 and 90 rolls of film from that one camera, so it was very used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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